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09-19-2018, 06:28 PM | #32 |
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Re: Have you played in the Mad Lands?
I'm thinking I'm going to use the Mad Lands as the primary inspiration for the Not!Russia portion of my D&D/Pathfinder setting. Which will make, for example, Not!Chechnya interesting, because the bit of my world that would sub in for Islam is essentially Jediism with a significant admixture of In Nomine (Destiny and Fate replace the Light and Dark Sides) (also note that said religion is not my Islam analogue, it's just the biggest religion in the region that has the same geographical relationship to the Mad Lands as the Middle East has to Russia) I can only imagine the fun places I can take it when that mixes with the Pooh Gods . . .
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09-19-2018, 06:57 PM | #33 |
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Madlands is my favorite campaign setting I'll never play. It's beautiful and terrible, actually has some smart anthropology put into it, and nobody I know even remotely wants to play in that world.
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09-20-2018, 07:34 AM | #34 |
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I'm a big fan of the book, though no one I know wants to play the gameworld. : /
If anyone's interested in some Mad Lands-related reading, I have some (years-old) thoughts on how to game low-power PCs in a killer setting, using the Mad Lands as my prime example: http://www.gamesdiner.com/2013/02/ga...ech-pcs-part-i Fantasy II is really an interesting book (to me). I'd love to hear reports from anyone who has run a campaign.
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09-21-2018, 12:18 PM | #36 |
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I agree that it's catnip for GMs, but not so much fun for players.
Amazing world building, darkly hilarious cosmology, really scary monsters (well worth stealing for any horror game), but nearly impossible to use as anything but a one-shot when dealing with your typical gaming group. If Robin Laws was able to turn the Madlands into an actual campaign, he had some insanely good roleplayers in his group. |
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09-24-2018, 11:55 PM | #38 | |
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And while you could and should bend, fold, spindle and mutilate the shamans, gods, !fae and undead as you see fit for your campaign, for me the fascinating thing was how much of the game would necessarily be about the nitty gritty details of band relationships. With no currency, very low technology and almost no concept of private property, Madlanders do not go out to try and amass a pile of phat lewt you can ski down. It's inevitably about who gets to sit at the head of the table, who is dating whom, who gets to speak first at evening council, which elder the new baby should be named after, who can win the mostly-friendly wrestling contest or swim to the outer island....the stakes are, to swords and sorcery people, amazingly small. But they are exactly the stakes that are important to such people. Today you could throw Mr. Stoddard's work on social interactions into it and get a pretty rich and satisfying game about tribal politics out of it. With occasional fae and undead. |
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