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A place for you/Balbinus/Luke Crane to contribute ideas for mid-19th Century campaign

Started by blakkie, March 16, 2007, 02:54:01 PM

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Nazgul

#16
March 19, 2007, 02:10:04 PM
blakkie Ever seen the movie Young Sherlock Holmes? Strange cult, conspiracy, 'magic' (of the superstitious kind) and detective work. Set in London, and I think it's even in the time frame you have for your campaign.  

Might be a few ideas for you to lift, or some mood.

Don't forget trains. Used get around faster than by horse and buggy.

The Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground railway, opened on 10 January 1863.
http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/learning/online_resources/ecobus_omnibus/pg/1851a.htm


Lots of things can happen while on a long train ride. Mwahahah :hehe:

Sounds like you're gonna have an interesting game.
Abyssal Maw:

I mean jesus. It's a DUNGEON. You're supposed to walk in there like you own the place, busting down doors and pushing over sarcophagi lids and stuff. If anyone dares step up, you set off fireballs.

luke

#17
March 20, 2007, 11:37:58 AM
I really wish I had something to contribute to this -- a namesake! -- thread. But this is utterly not my period.

That said, I recommend using darkness and smell/odor as thematic elements. Those were stinky dark times!
I certainly wouldn't call Luke a vanity publisher, he's obviously worked very hard to promote BW, as have a handful of other guys from the Forge. -- The RPG Pundit

Give me a complete asshole writing/designing solid games any day over a nice incompetent. -- The Consonant Dude

mythusmage

#18
March 20, 2007, 03:59:05 PM
Quote from: lukeI really wish I had something to contribute to this -- a namesake! -- thread. But this is utterly not my period.

That said, I recommend using darkness and smell/odor as thematic elements. Those were stinky dark times!

Premise: An astoundingly rich tin lode is discovered in the hill country west of the city of Uruk around 3000BC. Uruk's bronze production increases many fold, and as a result the city establishes control over lower Mesopotamia. However, the Urukites soon discover that they can't work the mines as fast as they'd like using manpower alone. So they start using handdrawn carts. Then ass drawn, but even that doesn't suffice. It isn't until they start laying down wooden rails specially designed "ore carts" can run on that tin production takes off.

In time (around 1200BC) the tin mines give out. By then the kingdom of Uruk is producing iron and iron implements, mostly because of the need for sturdier rails than wood can provide. In addition, horse drawn rail carts are traveling from city to city in the kingdom, carrying freight and passengers. Other kingdoms and petty states have rail systems of their own, because rail has advantages over any other form of available transportation.

Trains in ancient Sumer, what's not to love? :)
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Greentongue

#19
March 27, 2007, 02:11:30 PM
With a slight wrinkle in time, this might make a good source of adventure.
KHara-Hot - The Black & Dead City.

(If it was found at some time other than 1909.)
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jdrakeh

#20
March 27, 2007, 03:42:18 PM
Honestly, when I read the thread title, I was kind of hoping for a Mississippi River Delta campaign. . . with Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, the supernatura weirdness of Ambrose Bierce, and the many rumors of lost Civil War treasure. And, of course, pirates (yes, folks, there were tons of pirates on the mighty Mississippi). I love 19th Century London, mind you, but it's been done to death.
 

Greentongue

#21
March 27, 2007, 08:28:55 PM
There nothing that I know of that would stop you from firing that one off.

If I can use the Great Flood of 1927 as a setting, a Mississippi River Delta campaign should certainly be doable.
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jdrakeh

#22
March 27, 2007, 08:53:44 PM
Quote from: GreentongueThere nothing that I know of that would stop you from firing that one off.

True -- it's just not what this thread is about (if I read the first post correctly).
 
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