10-18-2018, 12:15 AM | #11 |
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Re: Things to do with GURPS Banestorm
Over 20 years ago, a couple friends and I started an overarching campaign that began in Tredroy. It's pretty much "by the book." It branched out to touch on a campaign based in Davenford (a city a group of us created) in Megalos in Strategicon conventions (Orccon, Gamex, Gateway) in Los Angeles.
We've had several GMs (six in Strategicon). A GM who's currently running a sub-campaign in Tredroy wasn't even born when we began! We're keeping the campaign in real time, i.e., right now it's October 2018 in Yrth. I got to play the 18-year-old son of my original PC on Yrth, which was pretty cool.
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10-18-2018, 11:49 AM | #12 |
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Re: Things to do with GURPS Banestorm
One of my ideas for Yrth, the one I've put the most work into, involves people living in another continent, far to the east of Ytarria. Some of them came via Banestorm, but others sailed across the sea due to having too many enemies on Ytarria, and being lucky and/or good enough to avoid being killed by the journey. Now, in the twenty-first century, they're advanced enough that they might be able to come back...
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10-19-2018, 10:34 AM | #13 |
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Re: Things to do with GURPS Banestorm
I used Yrth as a vehicle to bring the GURPS Magic system to my AD&D1 campaign.
The backstory was that a group of adventurers managed to get themselves to Yrth and promptly discovered their magic didn't work correctly or at all. Then they found that there was a form of magic on Yrth that didn't match any they were familiar with. After surviving a decade on Yrth the Magic-User of the group had managed to learn and cast a Gate spell returning them home. The new form of magic they brought back with them became known as "flexible" magic and hundred years later it became very popular. The biggest plus was you never forgot your spells (or had to pray for them if a Cleric) but the downside was the spells weren't as powerful as those native to the D&D world and barring special items tired the caster. |
10-19-2018, 11:24 AM | #14 |
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Oklahoma City
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Re: Things to do with GURPS Banestorm
Our Banestorm campaign (in "Book II") included an alien invasion and counter-invasion, and an encounter with (sort of) Greek gods.
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10-21-2018, 11:17 AM | #15 |
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: West Virginia
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Re: Things to do with GURPS Banestorm
Yrth has a few options...
Everybody says, "Go big or go home!" But Caithness gives you a go small option. You can make a reasonable simulation of Bree or the Shire and play out adventures that fit the parameters of English, Irish, Welsh, or Scots, folklore. The witch that transforms into a rabbit or a fox and steal her neighbors' milk would be a serious foe/threat for a group of 75 point PCs from the local village. A mean bear could be a scary foe for a group of three to five PCs of that level, especially if the apprentice mage has mainly practical work spells and nothing in the way of serious attacks. Another option is to seek routes to the unknown sections of Ytarria. Either by sea or land. This would be a dangerous adventure and could play out several different ways. Explores could go off the map. Ytarria giving the group a solid history/background, take them to another land were other peoples were brought to Yrth by the Banestorm. Technology is the witchcraft of Yrth. Being inquisitors hunting down secret inventors and the people who seek their innovations could be fun. Or flip the script and be radical inventors out to liberate humanity for mindless drudgery and useless toil!
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10-22-2018, 10:51 AM | #16 |
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Re: Things to do with GURPS Banestorm
I ran a Yrth solo campaign where my player had amnesia (No character sheet) and he gradually discovered that he had a lot of atypical military and technology skills. Eventually he found that the Banestorm was a doorway to parallel Yrths and he had been a security expert for a faction of "strangers" that were trying to stop the spread of Orks through the Banestorms.
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10-22-2018, 12:56 PM | #17 |
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Re: Things to do with GURPS Banestorm
I have wanted to run a Banestorm game where the PCs are all residents of a small modern American town, and the entire town gets pulled through a Banestorm. The town is placed deep within orc lands. The game would start with a After the End feeling where the players try to figure out where they are and how to survive in this new world as the town is now cut off from food, power, petrol, and other supplies. Then once the powers of Yrth find them, there would be some political maneuvering.
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Location: West Virginia
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Re: Things to do with GURPS Banestorm
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