Kickstarter - past and Future
For my purpose, I have enough Dragons, Demons and Critters to kill and also to avoid (which is sometimes smarter)
I would love to see something about:
Urupa&Aras Sea
Iopos&Jerris (with the latter probably being more playable unless one wants to play a fascist Iopian group trying to sabotage Throal).
The wild Vasgothia (ok probably to wild this idea)
As you can see, all regional stuff.
I have no issues taking the old spells and convert them in a away making sense to my group. Weavibg difficulty is defined and the right powerlevel will be found.
The right regional setting is however hard work.
I would love to see something about:
Urupa&Aras Sea
Iopos&Jerris (with the latter probably being more playable unless one wants to play a fascist Iopian group trying to sabotage Throal).
The wild Vasgothia (ok probably to wild this idea)
As you can see, all regional stuff.
I have no issues taking the old spells and convert them in a away making sense to my group. Weavibg difficulty is defined and the right powerlevel will be found.
The right regional setting is however hard work.
Of all things I lost, sanity I held dearest.
Re: Kickstarter - past and Future
Thanks Josh
Sounds like it is time to save the pennys
Is it work telling my home group to hold off buying the core books (PDFs) and getting them to purchase as add ons (if made available) in the new kickstarter to support it?
Sounds like it is time to save the pennys
Is it work telling my home group to hold off buying the core books (PDFs) and getting them to purchase as add ons (if made available) in the new kickstarter to support it?
Cheers
Taffy/Dean
Melbourne, Australia
Taffy/Dean
Melbourne, Australia
Re: Kickstarter - past and Future
That seems highly unlikely because it's currently the source of income for the game but I would quite happily beg FASA to release some PDF bulk bundles of older material as Kickstarter Add-Ons:
*ED1 Corebooks
*ED1 Sourcebooks
*ED1 Adventures
*ED2
*EDC
*ED3 Sourcebooks
*ED3 Adventures
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Re: Kickstarter - past and Future
It makes me happy to hear requests for Vasgothia. I recently sent a proposal for a Vasgothia region book to FASA along with a 17,000 word sample chapter as proof of conceptLursi wrote: ↑Sun Aug 05, 2018 10:09 pmFor my purpose, I have enough Dragons, Demons and Critters to kill and also to avoid (which is sometimes smarter)
I would love to see something about:
Urupa&Aras Sea
Iopos&Jerris (with the latter probably being more playable unless one wants to play a fascist Iopian group trying to sabotage Throal).
The wild Vasgothia (ok probably to wild this idea)
As you can see, all regional stuff.
I have no issues taking the old spells and convert them in a away making sense to my group. Weavibg difficulty is defined and the right powerlevel will be found.
The right regional setting is however hard work.
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Re: Kickstarter - past and Future
What is the direction you propose for Vasgothia? I presume its population is even more sparse than Barsaive?
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Well I would say in a broad sense my direction is dualistic in nature, we are talking about a heavily Theranized province that also possesses it's own strong sense of national identity, even the Empirist Therans are proud of their Vasgothian heritage. For example, the history of House Gascilium and the history of Vasgothia are deeply entwined, Gascilium is pretty much made up of Theranized Vasgothians at this point, but they are now the most hated Therans in the province despite a shared heritage.
That Vasgothian heritage is also a source of great fear and woe due to the continuing effects of the Place of reNaming.
Population wise I haven't really thought about numbers as much as cultures; you have the tribes in the Deep Forest, some of which hate Thera, some of them trade with Thera and some of them are even allies of Thera. In the north there are the Troll Moots of the Caralkspur Mountains (who differ greatly from the Sky Raiders of Barsaive, they are actually allies of the Theran Empire for a start) and then you have a series of Theran settlements that lay in between the two that form the centre of Theran culture in the province.
Then you have all the strangeness caused by the Scourge; new Namegivers races, the Dread Yearning, the Towers, Fruits of the Passions and Horror and the dead Vasgothian Passions (which I have fully detailed with Questor abilities in case GMs wanted to run a campaign where the Passions return).
Vasgothian is a place that attracts adventures and adepts from all across the empire and each of the Theran noble houses desires to harness it's secrets for themselves.
My main goal is to provide a fully fleshed out campaign setting for Earthdawn players and GMs. I have been playing Earthdawn for nearly 20 years and as much as I love Barsaive, my group have taken efforts in the last decade or so to flesh out the world beyond it ( I have for example, played ED games set in versions of Britain and Japan). I believe Vasgothia has a lot of potential for adventure and offers something a little different since it houses both a strong Theran presence to contend with and huge stretches of strange, magical and untamed wilderness to explore.
To give you an example of how fleshed out I want Vasgothia to be, my sample chapter (which mostly covers Vasgothian history, from creation myths to modern day) is 33 pages in length, compare this to the 19 pages presented in Theran Empire. I even had a brief email correspondence with the author of Theran Empire (Robin D. Laws) discussing the themes of Vasgothia.
Re: Kickstarter - past and Future
Sounds cool.
In Germany there is fan work released by the german distributor and it is actually quite nice. I paid 10 Euros for it and it was worth it.
Of course this was only about artifacts and background info about a region is a bit more canonical but it sounds good.
We also took all kinds of maps and played there, it would be not too difficult to do the persian empire which is south of barsaive .
I was raised with all these ancient stories about Kyros and Xerxes, so I think this will come up next. That would make a nice power expanding north...
In Germany there is fan work released by the german distributor and it is actually quite nice. I paid 10 Euros for it and it was worth it.
Of course this was only about artifacts and background info about a region is a bit more canonical but it sounds good.
We also took all kinds of maps and played there, it would be not too difficult to do the persian empire which is south of barsaive .
I was raised with all these ancient stories about Kyros and Xerxes, so I think this will come up next. That would make a nice power expanding north...
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Re: Kickstarter - past and Future
Yeah Persia would fit in to ED very nicely, you have Issyr near to Creana, but I'm not too sure about it I think it's suppose to represent the Egyptian/Assyrian conflict.Lursi wrote: ↑Tue Aug 07, 2018 9:50 pmSounds cool.
In Germany there is fan work released by the german distributor and it is actually quite nice. I paid 10 Euros for it and it was worth it.
Of course this was only about artifacts and background info about a region is a bit more canonical but it sounds good.
We also took all kinds of maps and played there, it would be not too difficult to do the persian empire which is south of barsaive .
I was raised with all these ancient stories about Kyros and Xerxes, so I think this will come up next. That would make a nice power expanding north...
Do you have a link to that German fan work? I'd like to check it out.
Re: Kickstarter - past and Future
Yes I do:Geekabilly wrote: ↑Wed Aug 08, 2018 7:09 am
Do you have a link to that German fan work? I'd like to check it out.
https://www.ulisses-ebooks.de/product/245743
There is also a small preview.
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Re: Kickstarter - past and Future
Great thank you. If I can ask, what is the Vasgothia specific content in this book? Judging by the description I'm guessing it's Thread Items?