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| CelestialBarbarian |
 Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 7:19 am Post subject: Re: current campaign |
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When rumors of 4e first surfaced (or at least when I first heard them) I talked to my players and we agreed that we didn't want to see a new edition before 2010 at the earliest. When Wizards confirmed 4e we discussed it again and all agreed that we have absolutely no desire to switch to the new system and buy a stack of new books. From what we've heard about 4e so far we have no desire to ever switch to it. So we will stick with 3.5 for the foreseeable future. |
Same here, I like a couple of the things I've seen for 4$ED but most of what I have seen looks terrible in my opinion. My group will definitely not be switching immediately upon release, and I doubt we ever will, but I won't count out that possibility completely. |
Yes, anything's possible. If a large enough share of players ends up playing 4e at some point down the road it might mean I'd have to shift in order to get new players or play in a new campaign. Currently Paizo hasn't decided whether to shift to 4e or remain with 3.5, as Wizards has refused to give Paizo an early look at 4e, so Paizo right now continues to use 3.5 for the Pathfinder series. From what they've said over there if Wizards doesn't get 4e previews to them early enough they might end up sticking with 3.5 by default. They've been polling customers over at the Paizo website to see whether people prefer that Paizo remain with 3.5 or go with 4e, and the last I checked a plurality supported sticking with 3.5.
I've run my campaign for 29 years now and I've adapted from original D&D to 1st Ed to 2nd Ed to 3.0 to 3.5. In none of these cases did the change in the underlying rules seem remotely as large as the one that Wizards proposes for 4e, so even if I could afford all the new books and liked the new system I would feel hesitant about having to go back through my entire campaign world and convert everything (again). My campaign world works pretty well under 3.5, so I don't see the need for a change now.  |
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| Wyvern |
| Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 1:49 pm Post subject: |
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I'm running Savage Tide too. It's been an awesome adventure so far. I wish I could run it more often than once a week.
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| CelestialBarbarian |
| Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 1:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Wyvern wrote: |
| I'm running Savage Tide too. It's been an awesome adventure so far. I wish I could run it more often than once a week. |
How far along have you gotten? I caught the last couple of pieces in Dungeon & Dragon and thought they were excellent! I particularly like the high-level material. I haven't really seen much of the earlier stuff. I gather that's good too? |
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| Wyvern |
| Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 2:25 pm Post subject: |
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It is!
We are almost reaching Far Shore at the Isle of Dread.
Just looking back at all that has happened feels epic, and they are just 6th level. |
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| jamesmay1983 |
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| Wyvern wrote: |
It is!
We are almost reaching Far Shore at the Isle of Dread.
Just looking back at all that has happened feels epic, and they are just 6th level. |
That's about where we are too and it has been just great so far! |
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| CelestialBarbarian |
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| Wyvern wrote: |
It is!
We are almost reaching Far Shore at the Isle of Dread.
Just looking back at all that has happened feels epic, and they are just 6th level. |
I seem to recall reading about the trip to the Isle of Dread in one of my Dragon issues. Wasn't there an old AD&D module actually called Isle of Dread? Speaking of old D&D modules, I've taken the old Maze of the Riddling Minotaur module from the version of D&D that co-existed with 1st Ed (starting with Basic D&D) and revamped it for 3.5 and epic-level play. In my version there is a son of Zeus (and a human woman) trapped in it as punishment for his hubris and evil when he was kind of the Isle of Minos. I'm set him up as a CR 25 abomination (and outsider category in Epic Level Handbook). The party now runs 20th-22nd level. It still had to get there, and the journey there involves a few encounters and side-quests. Then the Isle of Minos itself has some powerful worshipers of the abomination even outside the maze. I'd guess that the party will haver reached 21-23 or even 24 by the time it gets to face the abomination. the party is large, with 8 including the wizard's dragon cohort. (The dragon has an ECL of only 18, so I didn't include her level in the party mix.) I might actually have to bump up the abomination a level or two just to make sure that the last fight with him provides a real life-threatening challenge for them. 
I'm glad to hear that it's going so well. So you're 6th-level already and haven't even gotten to the isle yet? |
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| Daniel |
| Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 11:22 pm Post subject: Re: Current Campaigns |
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What is your current campaign?
My group is running a 3.5 campaign set in the world of Aereth. We play-by-email because we are quite a distance apart. We stated this campaign called "West to the Empire" back in June and have mostly been using the Dungeon Crawl Classics as our adventure source material. |
I'm one of the players of this campaign and I have been loving it. I did not think I would like the play-by-email format so much, but it has been very good to scratch the gaming itch. It has also led me to want to run a pbem game myself, which I'll be starting in a week or so (Witch Hunter).
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| The Gremlin |
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My current campaign? you mean one that we're DMing or any campaign that we're playing in?
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| CelestialBarbarian wrote: |
| I seem to recall reading about the trip to the Isle of Dread in one of my Dragon issues. Wasn't there an old AD&D module actually called Isle of Dread? |
Yes! Many a day I spent reading that. I even ran portions of it. Such awesome stuff to a 15 year old.
My current campaign? I have two. Both message board games. One involves an Arcana Evolved game with a colony of mojh trying to figure out just what's going on when the dragons return. The other is a collection of PCs who are the children of the Divines (i.e. gods) from the city of Terminus, lit by the glow of creation or destruction. The gods are dying around them, and they're trying to find a way to stop the biggest, baddest, craziest Divine of them all, the Divine of Death. And maybe take his place too. |
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| The Gremlin |
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well, at any rate, i have one PbP set in a homebrewed world.v It started when the PCs saw a man pushed into a river and heard the man say the name of a nearby desert. Some spirits there told them that what they sought was all the way back in the city. Boy, were they annoyed!
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| Bubba Ho-Tep |
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| Well after much deliberation, I am going to plunge my group into the Iron Kingdoms for a while. I love it and it has bits of fantasy and steampunk built in, this will let me take a break from full on fantasy until I decide about D&D 4.0. |
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| The Gremlin |
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| Bubba Ho-Tep wrote: |
| Well after much deliberation, I am going to plunge my group into the Iron Kingdoms for a while. I love it and it has bits of fantasy and steampunk built in, this will let me take a break from full on fantasy until I decide about D&D 4.0. |
Bah, I can't stand Iron Kingdoms.
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| The Gremlin |
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It's not so much Iron Kingdoms as Science Fiction that I can't stand.
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| Bubba Ho-Tep |
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| I look at it as more Science Fantasty than Sci-Fi, but it's not for everyone. I like all genres Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi and any combination of them, but I'm fairly easy to please. |
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