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After reading this thread, I remembered stumbling across a mention of a questionably-cannon University that I wanted to use in my home game... took me a bit of digging, but I found it again From the Mordent Cartographic Society's Lamordia page: Leidenheim , appeared in the novel "Mordenheim&quo...

Hokay... let's get this started here... Fusing Arkandale with Invidia: Nay , Invidia is better as part of Barovia or Borca Fusing Arkandale with Valachan: Aye , suggested it in the first place Keeping Necropolis as a pocket domain within Darkon: Nay , I believe that Necropolis should be a 'parallel ...

This is untrue, at least in my experience of running and playing face-to-face games in both systems. I guess I should've italicized the I feel part, eh? ;) I have run a few games in 4e, yes... one shots to try and get a feel (including Keep on the Shadowfell). It's not something I enjoyed DMing, an...

I've been running a very successful heavy-RP 4E game via message board and I have yet to run across any serious issues with theme, campaign style, or roleplaying mechanics in general. At least, nothing any worse than I'd encounter in 3E. Forum, my friend, forum... typically, from my own experience ...

4e irked me for the longest time... everything was way too structured, way too combat oriented, way too 'your characters are special!' for my own personal tastes, and the games I like to run. However, once I stopped thinking of it as D&D along the lines 2e/3.5/Pathfinder, I can actually apprecia...

I kinda like the fact that there is no ending... forces us DMs to come up with a conclusion that best fits the results of our player's actions ;) But I must firmly second the suggestions to buy the gazetteers... though hardbound copies are nice, since I tend not to need them at the tables, I've boug...

*stumbles in dazed after reading HuManBing's Time of Unparallelled Darkness suggestions* What has been read... *twitches slightly* cannot be unread... I am bit puzzled about this, though. My character in the Frat game's continuity was "Le Noir Faineant". I guess Roti will write him in late...

Hmm... well, I always thought Darkon was more an analogue of the Holy Roman Empire, rather than the Roman Empire... they just used Latin for the language because Falkovnia was German... just the lack of themes commonly associated with the Romans (aside from the religion, as you pointed out) and the ...

Well, Borca's always been based off of Italy... what's Medival Italy's defining traits? Powerful central religion keeping the backstabbing noble houses from falling into civil war. While Ricoba is the centre of religious tensions between faiths, in Borca has a single, monolithic religion (which, jus...

Not to toot mine own horn, but may I suggest taking a skim over the Church of the God Emperor that I did up for my home world... it may just be different enough from the Church of Ezra that twisting it into Ravenloft Reanimated here as the Faith of Salvador might just be doable :) However, if we are...

That's indeed creepy. Yes, if you want to make a QtR article, that would be fun. Joël I must second this suggestion... this would be an excellent concept to expand upon and transform into a fully fledged article... there are certainly some more fanatically horrible items where these came from! :wink:

Well, since we're onto PCs, and I know my players will looooooooove there, here we go: http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/5520/tek4e7e70eb176b40993344.png http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/9610/tek4e67b5a64d5255201949.png http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/6392/tek4ef0bd3f88c8f8099568.png http://img6...

Okay, just for reference, these are the description of the fan domains from Joël's list: al-Kathos al-Kathos is a huge but sparsely populated Arabian-themed Domain, from the subcontinent of Zakhara on the prime world Toril. It is roughly 160 miles by 120 miles. Leaving the Domain by sea occasionally...

Nova Vaasa, Forlorn, Invidia, Sithicus, the Shadow Rift and Hazlan have been cut from the RLR domain list, haven't they? Are we discussing their re-integration here? Just what are the advantages of Ricoba over classic Richemulot? Nova Vasa was voted back in, along with: Blaustein, Bluetspur, G'Henn...

Could you remind me of the main themes of Ricoba and the New Arkandale, please? Ricoba is Medieval Spain, with the tension between the "Three Faiths", fear of the infernal, and mechanizations of the merchant families " This is Ricoba, friend, the golden edge of civilization is this w...