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Dark Albion: the Origin Thread
RPGPundit:
--- Quote from: Doc Sammy;950530 ---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?
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Yes, you could do any of those. There's a chapter on "The Continent" which covers the Albion version of all of those in brief.
Tom Kalbfus
BANNED:
Well we got Dracula, King Arthur, and Robin Hood, I think it would be interesting to insert a few other fairy tale characters, like Jack the Giant Killer, their are Giants North of Hadrian's Wall, Maybe the Little Mermaid, and if there was a King Arthur, there maybe a Lady of the Lake, maybe she was an aquatic elf, that is why she is "of the lake." You have Richard the Third, player characters might decide to rescue those two princes and see what happens.
Tom Kalbfus
BANNED:
I notice that the highest level of the campaign is 14th level. What if each gold sovereign collected as treasure was worth an experience point and the experience point table was set up like this:
Level : xp to attain
1st : 0
2nd : 1000
3rd : 2000
4th : 4000
5th : 8000
6th: 16,000
7th : 32,000
8th : 64,000
9th : 125,000
10th : 250,000
11th : 500,000
12th : 1,000,000
13th : 2,000,000
14th : 4,000,000
15th : 8,000,000
16th : 16,000,000
17th : 32,000,000
18th : 64,000,000
19th : 125,000,000
20th : 250,000,000
This leads to some very powerful characters, not because they obtain high levels, but mainly to attain these high levels, they need to accumulate vast fortunes, and at high levels, most experience gets accumulated through treasure collected. If the wealth level is to high, one could set an experience point equal to 1 copper penny's value of treasure collected instead, the doubling experience point table will still keep the levels down low.
With this kind of advancement, players are more likely to become political actors in this campaign world, they are likely to have their own private armies, mass combat will get used a lot at the higher levels. Players will get to direct troop movements, and one can dust off Battlesystems to resolve these actions. If your player characters want to challenge King Richard III for the throne of England, this is the way to do it.
RPGPundit:
--- Quote from: Tom Kalbfus;1138637 ---I notice that the highest level of the campaign is 14th level. What if each gold sovereign collected as treasure was worth an experience point and the experience point table was set up like this:
Level : xp to attain
1st : 0
2nd : 1000
3rd : 2000
4th : 4000
5th : 8000
6th: 16,000
7th : 32,000
8th : 64,000
9th : 125,000
10th : 250,000
11th : 500,000
12th : 1,000,000
13th : 2,000,000
14th : 4,000,000
15th : 8,000,000
16th : 16,000,000
17th : 32,000,000
18th : 64,000,000
19th : 125,000,000
20th : 250,000,000
This leads to some very powerful characters, not because they obtain high levels, but mainly to attain these high levels, they need to accumulate vast fortunes, and at high levels, most experience gets accumulated through treasure collected. If the wealth level is to high, one could set an experience point equal to 1 copper penny's value of treasure collected instead, the doubling experience point table will still keep the levels down low.
With this kind of advancement, players are more likely to become political actors in this campaign world, they are likely to have their own private armies, mass combat will get used a lot at the higher levels. Players will get to direct troop movements, and one can dust off Battlesystems to resolve these actions. If your player characters want to challenge King Richard III for the throne of England, this is the way to do it.
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Well sure, but it's not very medieval-authentic. Both because that amount of coin currency shouldn't be common, and also because many characters, either due to social status or character class, should not be concerned with collecting coin as their main reward.
Ghostmaker:
--- Quote from: RPGPundit;1139087 ---Well sure, but it's not very medieval-authentic. Both because that amount of coin currency shouldn't be common, and also because many characters, either due to social status or character class, should not be concerned with collecting coin as their main reward.
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Oh jeez, I just realized this. Part of medieval/Renaissance history involves the rise of the moneyed merchant class, because the nobility really didn't pay attention to money (indeed, it was considered gauche to actually do more than direct underlings).
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