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| Stormborn |
 Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 6:34 am Post subject: Zobeck sources and inspiration |
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Two questions for Wolfgang now that I have finally gotten my print copy of Zobeck from Lulu and had a chance to read it.
1) When you ran a Zobeck campaign what books, or portions there of, did you allow for players and what books did you use as a DM?
2) You state that you wanted a more Eastern European feel to the setting. How do you communicate this feel to your players? Having lived in Kyiv for a while I have some ideas, but was wondering what you might have done to communicate that this is not just a generic fantasy setting with some 'cog-pulp' (to possibly coin a term) elements?
EDIT: Any of the play testers/anyone else who has run a Zobeck game feel free to chime in. |
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| Wolfgang |
| Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 6:29 pm Post subject: |
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1) I used the core books, plus bits of MM2, FF, and Advanced Bestiary. Maybe a couple others, mostly I leaned on Dungeon Magazine for "Curse of the Spider Eaters" and on Dragon for a few choice bits of inspiration (the "Red Sails" issue of Russian and Slavic elements, for instance). Spell Compendium and Vile Darkness as well. And Spiros Blaak for kobold weirdness.
The players used the core books, plus a few bits from Netbook of Feats, some Complete books, and... I think that's about it. Maybe Roguish Luck and maybe a bit from Iron Kingdoms. Such as Five Fingers.
2) Mostly by setting Zobeck on an imaginary tributary of the Danube, and using European placenames from the Balkans, plus Germanic, Hungarian, and Romanian given names. The home campaign was a lot more "alternate Earth" than the version that is published. That gave PCs easy hooks, as in, a Suisse Dwarf, a mercenary from Trieste, and a second-generation Norse bard. Plus native Zobeckers, of course.
Character languages also did it: German, Hungarian, Wallachian, Greek, and Latin were all available, for instance.
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| deinol |
| Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 12:00 am Post subject: Something Rotten in Kislev |
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Not directly usable, but I have always really enjoyed the Warhammer book: Something Rotten in Kislev. It may be hard to get a copy of though, I think it is long out of print. Wiki page here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Enemy_Within_Campaign.
There's an adventure where you deal with Russian folklore spirits (Rusalka, Vodyanoy and others if I recall.) It also turns a lot of the expectations of the players upside down. |
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| Zherog |
| Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 7:00 am Post subject: |
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| Wolfgang wrote: |
| ...mostly I leaned on Dungeon Magazine for "Curse of the Spider Eaters" ... |
That's a spectacular adventure! One of my favorites from Dungeon.
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