05-08-2007, 03:16 PM | #1 |
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In Nomine - Through the Ages!
I'm planning out a campaign that (as usual) may or may not materialize, but, hey, I can always add it to my Binder of Multitudinous Unused Campaigns...
Anyway, the idea is that the characters start out as beginning Celestials hundreds of years ago, and we play "episodes" through the years. Once we reach the modern day (if we ever do) it'll become a more "standard" campaign, but with significantly more powerful characters. Between episodes, characters can spend their accumulated XP and maybe spend a few on skills like languages etc. I don't have a lot of detail plotted out ('cause I wanna wait until it's definite that we're actually going to play) but here are some episodes I'm considering. I welcome any thoughts, suggestions for changes or new episodes, etc. Start: The Great Fire of Rome (i.e. the one Nero fiddled through) and its aftermath (persecution of Christians). Start in media res - the city's afire, what do you do? And then move on to protection of the nascent Christian community. I considered Starting Big and have the campaign begin at the birth of Christ, but that was just too damn hard to sort out the implications. The Fall of Rome - rescue people/artifacts/something-or-other from the advancing hordes. The Rise of Islam/the Trial of Gabriel - not dealing so much with the corporeal realm, but rather with the Celestial politics around the whole thing. The Crusades - hmm, not quite sure about this'un. Maybe set it in Constantinople and deal with inter-Crusader feuding. (Depending on the makeup of the party - if there are pro-Islam angels, actually setting this in the Holy Land has a lot of potential.) There's potential in the Albigensian Crusade and the fall of the Templars, too... The Black Plague - deal with minions of Makatiel, Prince of Disease, and the aftermath of Makatiel's fall. Probably leave the Mediterranean and perhaps move to Merrie Olde Englande... The Black Plague, redux - set a couple of hundred years later. The Plague returns thanks to an artifact of Makatiel, now in the possession of a follower of Saminga. The Rise of Fleurity - based around the establishment of the Opium trade. Intrigue on the streets of London. Across the Pond - I have a scenario that I used previously set in the 19th C U.S. - not tied to any great historical events but it'll serve to get the PC's over to North America. (If we get to the modern day it'll be set in Vancouver, B.C., most likely.) A House Divided - Because, y'know. Why wouldn't you get the characters involved in the American Civil War, or at least the lead-up thereto? (Again, depends on the makeup of the group.) That's as far as I've got. :) |
05-09-2007, 04:13 AM | #2 | |
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With hopes of being helpful, Methariel
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05-13-2007, 04:42 AM | #3 |
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Your lack of pirates disturbs me.
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The other thing that occurs to me as a notable historical epoch is the Great War. I'm thinking, for example, of a Kipling short story about saints and angels on duty at the gates of heaven, trying to process the massive influx of victims of the war and get as many of them as possible into heaven—the scenes with the prostitute and the atheist are especially fun. But angels trying to help people down in the trenches could have an interesting time, too. Bill Stoddard |
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05-17-2007, 04:31 AM | #5 | |
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05-21-2007, 12:45 AM | #6 | |
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Yes, Malphas did indeed benefit of the Thirty-Years-War - and maybe incited the murder of Wallenstein... Methariel
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05-25-2007, 02:49 AM | #7 |
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One element you might want to play up in Rome is the conflicting patronages of Uriel (Malakite Archangel of Purity, at-the-time Commander of the Host) and Beelzebub (Djinn Prince of Corruption).
Obviously Beelzebub would love Nero; I can't remember if Uriel had endorsed Christianity yet by this period... The conflict between the two ends with the soul-death of Beelzebub by Uriel's sword. |
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