Dark Albion: the Origin Thread

[Battle Mad Ronin]

Well I understand the sentiment. Still, I think it's silly to get discouraged by it. 'Dark Albion' becomes your setting the moment you pick it up, unconnected to the author's intentions. And it's a good setting. I'd say ignore RPGpundit if his opinions on how to play the setting don't match yours and have fun with 'Dark Albion' in whatever way you want.

A party of DW rangers, fighters, thieves and a cleric would fit right in as a Rose War version of Robin Hood's merry men, stealing from the rich bastards carrying out a war for their own good and giving back to those who have lost everything.

[Rincewind1]

Why?

Because DW is part of postmodernist Swine SJW campaign to destroy the Western civilisation, starting with RPGs.

[RPGPundit]

Why?

Because I'm famously known to despise Dungeon World.

Also, you'd probably have to change an awful lot about the system from what I remember.  What about it even makes you think its a good fit for authentic medievalism?

I mean, you could run Albion with Vampire:the Masquerade or Toon for all I care. But if you are specifically asking me if I think it's a good fit, I'd probably say no.

[Evermasterx]

Well I didn't know that. And you are too smart to think that every GM in the world keeps a list of what you love or despise.

Why do you think that D&D could recreate a real medieval feel and DW not? May you elaborate on this?

[RPGPundit]

DW isn't actually for creating and immersing in settings at all. Setting is just a facade.  Also, DW is for exploring the 'theme' of 'dungeon exploration'. Its not about actually playing your character.

It is an atrocity created by the infusion of all kinds of non-RPG storygaming ideas into gaming.

Now, please don't turn this thread into that debate. The reason I accused you of trolling in the first place is that this is EXACTLY what Storygamers like to do: derail a thread meant to promote my book into a big debate about storygames so that no one can use the thread anymore. It's their stupid and childish notion of sabotage, that they think accomplishes something.

Feel free to post, but if you are posting here, it better be questions or comments SPECIFICALLY about Dark Albion and NOT about dungeonworld.

If you feel you must defend your precious game from my mean accusations, start a new thread about that and do not derail this thread.

[Evermasterx]

Don't worry, this will be my last post here.
All of this could have been easily avoided:
1) you could simply say "I don't like that game so I don't advice you to use it".
2) you could have taken some time to discover that I am an Amber and Lords of Olympus GM who have posted only in those two threads since 2009 and even asked you if I could use DA as a setting in LoO.

DA is a setting so I think is absolutely legitimate to ask to the author if it could be used with a system in this thread.

In your frenzy to shoot your enemies, you shoot even your friends.

Bye Bye.

[RPGPundit]

Well, bye.

[viejah]

Hello, there, new in these forums. I really like Dark Albion and i would want to tell you how the story has progressed until now. To your knowdlege, we are using dnd5 rules with full magic (my players wanted it in that way, and it was ok for me).
Im not using it as a full sandbox , with full event table generation, but neither railroad. There is several stories ongoing and yes, players have the freedom to continue one storyline or other (war of roses), and do what they like.

It begins in Rochester, 1 year after John Kemp resurrection, and in 3 places of the Kemp county, Rochester, Hastings and Leeds, undead appear. A witches conclave, lead by Gloucester duchess, Eleanor Cobham (i know i know) and a family of witches, the Billingham, curse the land. Players during these first 15 games , make their base in Dover and explore arcadian ruins, kill goblins, and learn about a war between 2 Great Daemon Princes, Suaranthe and Alatelan.
:
It seems that witches conclave divided between followers of each Daemon, as the main objective was not properly done : kill John Kemp, but he was touched by the God Sun.

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The second part was the delivery of a letter to north of London, claiming several traitors to the Crown . Several Yorkists try to kill the players, while they find out the curse of the Earl of Bedford, and his brother. A family curse inspired by The Bedford Tales, and his french (frog) grandmother.

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Third part, after first battle of St Albans. The players find out Billingham witches are still alive , and they are trying to resurrect the Shadow of Eleanor of Castile, and making rites in each one of the Eleanor Crosses.
Right now we are going to play our 26th game (they are level 6) , and:
-They have found out that 2 Sun paladins destroyed a witch conclave in Stonny Stratford, capturing one of the Billingham.
-They posess one of the last funerary recipients where Eleanor ashes are, and they wait for the attack of the witches and chaos spawn and daemons.
-They are going to explore an elf funerary temple in the middle of Ruthland forest, because the runes and the magic were used to tie Eleanor inner devil.
-They have been offered money to kill bandits infesting East Midlands region (These bandits were the ones that locate elf villages).
-They have been offered a huge amount of money to go to Buckingham siege and rescue Humphrey (In my world after St Albans battle, the Guard of 5 Ports , Humphrey Stafford has scaped there and now is sieged by Warwick).

Lot of things to offer, lot of things to do. I love Dark Albion

[RPGPundit]

Hello, there, new in these forums. I really like Dark Albion and i would want to tell you how the story has progressed until now. To your knowdlege, we are using dnd5 rules with full magic (my players wanted it in that way, and it was ok for me).
Im not using it as a full sandbox , with full event table generation, but neither railroad. There is several stories ongoing and yes, players have the freedom to continue one storyline or other (war of roses), and do what they like.

It begins in Rochester, 1 year after John Kemp resurrection, and in 3 places of the Kemp county, Rochester, Hastings and Leeds, undead appear. A witches conclave, lead by Gloucester duchess, Eleanor Cobham (i know i know) and a family of witches, the Billingham, curse the land. Players during these first 15 games , make their base in Dover and explore arcadian ruins, kill goblins, and learn about a war between 2 Great Daemon Princes, Suaranthe and Alatelan.
:
It seems that witches conclave divided between followers of each Daemon, as the main objective was not properly done : kill John Kemp, but he was touched by the God Sun.

----------

The second part was the delivery of a letter to north of London, claiming several traitors to the Crown . Several Yorkists try to kill the players, while they find out the curse of the Earl of Bedford, and his brother. A family curse inspired by The Bedford Tales, and his french (frog) grandmother.

----------

Third part, after first battle of St Albans. The players find out Billingham witches are still alive , and they are trying to resurrect the Shadow of Eleanor of Castile, and making rites in each one of the Eleanor Crosses.
Right now we are going to play our 26th game (they are level 6) , and:
-They have found out that 2 Sun paladins destroyed a witch conclave in Stonny Stratford, capturing one of the Billingham.
-They posess one of the last funerary recipients where Eleanor ashes are, and they wait for the attack of the witches and chaos spawn and daemons.
-They are going to explore an elf funerary temple in the middle of Ruthland forest, because the runes and the magic were used to tie Eleanor inner devil.
-They have been offered money to kill bandits infesting East Midlands region (These bandits were the ones that locate elf villages).
-They have been offered a huge amount of money to go to Buckingham siege and rescue Humphrey (In my world after St Albans battle, the Guard of 5 Ports , Humphrey Stafford has scaped there and now is sieged by Warwick).

Lot of things to offer, lot of things to do. I love Dark Albion

WOW!

This all sounds absolutely fantastic. Great job!

And thanks so much for this post.

[Willmark]

Just ordered it.

If I run it I think I'd use 1st edition WFRP, seems like a natural fit. Looking forward to reading it.

[RPGPundit]

Just ordered it.

If I run it I think I'd use 1st edition WFRP, seems like a natural fit. Looking forward to reading it.

Great!  Hope you enjoy it.

[ZWEIHÄNDER]

Hi Pundit,

We threw you a shout-out on our AMA recently. We've got a few folks using Dark Albion with the ZWEIHÄNDER Grim & Perilous RPG Early Access rules. I am encouraging their group to put up adventure logs in Obsidian Portal. They've been running it since our Kickstarter, and from my conversations with their GM, it sounds absolutely fantastic.

Do you have a community set up for Dark Albion fans anywhere, outside of this thread?

[Voros]

There's a G+ community here.

[RPGPundit]

There's a G+ community here.

Yup, that's the official one.

[Mordred Pendragon]

I just read the opening post and I like this setting from what I have read so far and want to read it more in-depth later tonight. I'm a sucker for historical fantasy.

I'd love to get the materials for Dark Albion soon and maybe run a campaign of it. Can I make some homebrew settings for it focusing on fantasy versions of Russia (I presume that's the Rus mentioned in the opening post), Italy, the Nordic countries, and especially the Holy Roman Empire?