From: Curtis Shenton (curtiss@netcom.com)
Date: Sun 17 Apr 1994 - 21:16:27 EEST
I'd love to run or play in a campaign based on the Gbaji wars. But with the players all starting out as Illuminates within Nysalor's empire. Start the characters in Dorastor, which from my reading seems to have been a pretty nice place to live before Arkat shows up, right about the time Arkat gets started. So they hear news which presents Arkat as evil incarnate marching their way. Assuming you've got a group of good roleplayers dealing with the philosophical aspects to Illumination and with the idea that Arkat might be right would be alot of fun to play. From my own experiance a foe the character like and admire and wish they didn't have to fight is the type of NPC the players will remember for a very long time. As long as the PCs are presented with a balanced view of things, on the one hand Dorastor and the heart of Nysalor's empire is a wonderful place and the people are enlightened yet on the other hand Arkat is cleansing the land of a very real evil.
The other campaign I'd like to try is a group of Godlearners. This would be a very different sort of campaign to run since you'd have to really develop your camapign's version of Heroquesting and the gods. Plus to really drive the point home of just what sort of damage the godlearners did I'd make some large scale changes in the world that the PCs would be confused by. Like having a White Sun/Moon in the sky all the time, or Yalmol the god who stole Zorak Zoran's Darkness powers in the Godtime.
Of course a Fourth Age game would be fun too but I'd like to
wait for Greg's book on the Lunar to come out before I'd really try to
develop such a setting.
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Curtis Shenton curtiss@netcom.com internet & 4@3091 WWIVnet
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