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Bladewind
Master of Realmslore
Netherlands
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 Posted - 20 Dec 2006 : 16:40:14
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Warm winds.
Would it be fun to allow players to play as the gods of a campaign and set up schemes against eachother? Would it be manageable and has anyone used the dieties in Faiths and Pantheons on an active basisi in his campaign?
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Kuje
Great Reader
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Posted - 20 Dec 2006 : 16:59:42
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I have in my fiendish single player email game. The PC turned into a deity and he's still feeling out how he is going to fit in with all of the hundreds of deities on Faerun and how they are going to restrict him, and his clergy.
He had a meeting in Cynosure a few days ago and that was a bit intimidating to see all of the deities watching him and having a debate with each other about the settlement he founded in the North and he had to answer their questions about what he planned for the Marches.
Lloth is one of his enemies because he kicked some of her followers out of his layer in the Abyss after the Abyss made him a deity. Helm, and Helm's followers, is also one of his enemies because before he became a deity, his fiends and himself corrupted one of Helm's bastions. Of course, most of the other fiendish deities in the Abyss are also his enemies, or allies, depending on their moods and the rulers of the Nine Hells are automatically his enemies because demons and devils hate each other. I've even used a few 'Loth's a few times and speaking of, I need to continue that plot with the Loths.
I got a few more plans brewing for this PC involving Mask and Leira. Waukeen is going to be one of his allies since the fiendish PC deity is interested in setting up trading houses that are run by his tanar'ri or mortal worshippers. Sharess and Lliira, and their followers, have on again and off again contact with the deity and his followers, since when the PC was a mortal tiefling he met one of Lliira's proxies and that NPC comes and goes or is still referenced from time to time.
There's a lot more about this game but we've been running it on and off for about 3 years now and we've written thousands of Word pages. |
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Edited by - Kuje on 21 Dec 2006 02:39:16 |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 20 Dec 2006 : 23:41:13
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Originally posted by Bladewind
Warm winds.
Would it be fun to allow players to play as the gods of a campaign and set up schemes against eachother?
If that's what they want to do. Though personally I prefer playing mortals. |
"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
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dwarvenranger
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 21 Dec 2006 : 02:18:43
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Um, is this gonna be in one of those "alternate Realms"? Cause if not this could have some very serious and long reaching consequences for your Realms game. I mean look what happened at Tantras and that was only between two gods.
On the other hand it could be just a Realms wide chess match. |
If I waited till I knew what I was doing, I'd never get anything done.
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 21 Dec 2006 : 02:23:20
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Originally posted by dwarvenranger
Um, is this gonna be in one of those "alternate Realms"? Cause if not this could have some very serious and long reaching consequences for your Realms game. I mean look what happened at Tantras and that was only between two gods.
On the other hand it could be just a Realms wide chess match.
Not sure whom you are directing your reply to.... But if it's to me, my FR is so radically different then the published version that my changes for that email game, and my other email and table top games, aren't going to have major consequences. Things happen when you run continuous games for over a decade that build on history that PC's have done to the setting. |
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet and excite you... Books are full of the things that you don't get in real life - wonderful, lyrical language, for instance, right off the bat. - Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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dwarvenranger
Senior Scribe
USA
428 Posts |
Posted - 21 Dec 2006 : 02:32:34
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| Actually it was to Bladewind. But it definitely sounds like you got your game well in hand Kuje (10 years?!!). I too like the characters to run the story and not the other way around. I just wanted to make sure Bladewind knew what he was getting into. |
If I waited till I knew what I was doing, I'd never get anything done.
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Kuje
Great Reader
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Posted - 21 Dec 2006 : 02:34:56
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Originally posted by dwarvenranger
Actually it was to Bladewind. But it definitely sounds like you got your game well in hand Kuje (10 years?!!). I too like the characters to run the story and not the other way around. I just wanted to make sure Bladewind knew what he was getting into.
Yup, I've been running the same version of FR since 2e and since 3/3.5e is almost 7 years old, it's been about 10 years ago that I started to change FR because of the actions of PC's. Especially in 2e because building cities/towers/temples/guild halls/etc were built into the core classes at certain levels. |
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet and excite you... Books are full of the things that you don't get in real life - wonderful, lyrical language, for instance, right off the bat. - Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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dwarvenranger
Senior Scribe
USA
428 Posts |
Posted - 21 Dec 2006 : 02:42:17
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If I waited till I knew what I was doing, I'd never get anything done.
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
7915 Posts |
Posted - 21 Dec 2006 : 02:45:10
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Originally posted by dwarvenranger
I spent most of my 2nd ed days wandering the planes. Damm I miss Planescape.
:) Oh, trust me, we make a lot of use of Planescape for that game and I've done some planar events in past games. :) |
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet and excite you... Books are full of the things that you don't get in real life - wonderful, lyrical language, for instance, right off the bat. - Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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dwarvenranger
Senior Scribe
USA
428 Posts |
Posted - 21 Dec 2006 : 03:06:01
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
7915 Posts |
Posted - 21 Dec 2006 : 03:40:00
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Originally posted by dwarvenranger
Like the Dead Gods story?
Not so much, but maybe off screen since Orcus is alive but I use the material to build off of or toss when I don't like it, like Faction War. That I ignored. |
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet and excite you... Books are full of the things that you don't get in real life - wonderful, lyrical language, for instance, right off the bat. - Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 21 Dec 2006 : 03:49:30
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Hehe... I think it is safe to say that most PS fans ignored Faction War... or at least, altered it severely before using it in their own regular PS campaign.
I know I've never used it. 
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scererar
Master of Realmslore
USA
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Posted - 27 Dec 2006 : 06:57:56
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| Ah reminds me of the old immortal (gold) boxed set of D&D. I prefer to stick to the mortal realms, but if my players get spunky, we can delve into epic stuff. Seriously, I get bored after about 10th to 12th level. |
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dwarvenranger
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 27 Dec 2006 : 20:44:55
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Hehe... I think it is safe to say that most PS fans ignored Faction War... or at least, altered it severely before using it in their own regular PS campaign.
I know I've never used it.
Definitely not. Erin Montgomery was way too hot to end up in a maze |
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