tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8514926277061122548.post1793397392918214104..comments2024-03-28T10:05:40.822+01:00Comments on The Yaqqothl Grimoire: New Campaign BrainstormingIl Male™http://www.blogger.com/profile/02699384706214815033noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8514926277061122548.post-1272044606386262032012-03-24T20:18:03.635+01:002012-03-24T20:18:03.635+01:00Another take on the Middle Earth/Fantasy Mashup ha...Another take on the Middle Earth/Fantasy Mashup hack is that you could have a Tolkienesque world that's suffering from some sort of dimensional degradation: the dimensional walls between worlds are breaking down in this faux-Middle Earth, so other, more alien realms are beginning to "bleed through". The end result is that the land has become kind of a patchwork of different realms. Your PCs could be hiking through the Iron Hills, only to find that on the other side of the hill they're climbing is a vast broken plain where rocky pinnacles float in the air, many of which are topped with castles, and knights mounted on pterodactyl-back joust with each other...<br /><br />As much as I love Middle Earth, I suspect you're going to have an easier time coming up with material that interests you week after week by going with the Fantasy Mashup. Given that you won't have long to come up with material for your game, I would think that having an "anything's possible" approach would make it easier to come up with ideas you could run with.Devin Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00944849659698291143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8514926277061122548.post-55168049916724304322012-03-24T09:28:39.666+01:002012-03-24T09:28:39.666+01:00"you're letting Tolkien do a bunch of wor...<i>"you're letting Tolkien do a bunch of work for you, but I bet what you would end up with would hardly resemble Tolkien."</i><br /><br />And that's quite exactly the point!Il Male™https://www.blogger.com/profile/02699384706214815033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8514926277061122548.post-36485896647239640602012-03-24T02:01:52.157+01:002012-03-24T02:01:52.157+01:00I like the last option. How about... a random tab...I like the last option. How about... a random table! List people and places from Middle-Earth in one column (Numenorians, Lake town, Thorin, etc) and in another column list fantasy things that *don't fit* in Middle-Earth like gelatinous cubes and Japan. Then try to make sense out of the random combinations. Pretty soon you will have explained why Moria is full of beholders, exactly where in Transylvania sits Orthanc and the mysterious connection between Denethor and rust monsters.<br /><br />Or maybe the real world locations are a third column... In any case this would be easier than the first option because you're letting Tolkien do a bunch of work for you, but I bet what you would end up with would hardly resemble Tolkien.Lumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09490249051095856396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8514926277061122548.post-30367993362857744612012-03-24T00:01:29.374+01:002012-03-24T00:01:29.374+01:00What about using some of the old MERP stuff? ICE&#...What about using some of the old MERP stuff? ICE's middle-earth was basically a big fantasy mashup inspired by Tolkien's works. Especially if you include things like Court of Ardor and the Northen Waste...Toprameskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17980339724207410362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8514926277061122548.post-2788031568620602482012-03-23T21:01:55.251+01:002012-03-23T21:01:55.251+01:00You have probably already considered it... but Gol...You have probably already considered it... but Golarion would, i think, also pretty perfectly fit your fantasy mashup idea, there's a place for everything there.<br />Im also a big fan of middle earth - well and midnight too, so i can totally dig a midnight-esque pathfinder middle earth campaign :)Anders Kirsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06155559519626327744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8514926277061122548.post-9215670202093561472012-03-23T13:32:57.551+01:002012-03-23T13:32:57.551+01:00Yeah, Pathfinder is a little difficult to run low-...Yeah, Pathfinder is a little difficult to run low-magic. Although Midnight had several cool ideas I could dig, I guess :)Il Male™https://www.blogger.com/profile/02699384706214815033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8514926277061122548.post-82111005128748225902012-03-23T12:06:20.670+01:002012-03-23T12:06:20.670+01:00What appeals to me about LOTR's Middle Earth a...What appeals to me about LOTR's Middle Earth as an adventuring location is its low-magic nature. I'd like to play a grungy LOTR campaign, with the players as burglars, sellswords and conjurers of cheap tricks, and the dragons and mythic fantasy as suitably rare and remote background material to the party's less heroic plundering and tomb-robbing. But that's me; it sounds like you're already leaning towards a certain idea, so I say go for it.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07090296806321882601noreply@blogger.com