The Forest Lords Of Dihad

[Draygon]

Anybody here ever play this module, or anything within the Land beyond the mountains campaign setting? Anybody ever run.into EMIL JAGGOH, MORKASH THE DESECRATOR, or the ENONY BAND?
The descriptions says:
"Dihad ...Here, too, you'll meet Aril Malus, the self-styled Keeper of the Forests and his sworn enemy Morkash the Desecrator; Emil Jaggoh, the wily head of the Hadite government's secret espionage network, the Ebony Band; rugged loggers and woodmen of all stripes; and scores of other residents and transients through the Land."

[larsdangly]

Yes, I've used these, and still own a full set (the two statted for TFT, and the two that are system neutral but originally intended to be part of the same setting.

My general feeling these days is that they are fun to page through if you are a collector, and they are certainly the largest fully written up regional settings for TFT, but they aren't actually that great as roleplaying settings. Ardonirane is substantially better, to my taste. Also, the NPC's have stat levels that are way off the charts for LE play.

[Ferretman]

Originally Posted by Draygon

Anybody here ever play this module, or anything within the Land beyond the mountains campaign setting? Anybody ever run.into EMIL JAGGOH, MORKASH THE DESECRATOR, or the ENONY BAND?
The descriptions says:
"Dihad ...Here, too, you'll meet Aril Malus, the self-styled Keeper of the Forests and his sworn enemy Morkash the Desecrator; Emil Jaggoh, the wily head of the Hadite government's secret espionage network, the Ebony Band; rugged loggers and woodmen of all stripes; and scores of other residents and transients through the Land."

I had slotted the first of these two into my campaign, with an eye towards moving the party (several thousand miles) via an adventure I had loosely called "The Epic". We'd eventually have ended up there in the easternmost area, and basically be dealing with new problems and such.

I ended up getting a real job and moving to Denver, which was the end of our campaign. I've got some notes for The Epic and character sheets but that was about it; we all went our own way after that.

Ferret

[JohnPaulB]

I own both booklets and enjoy reading them every now and then. Never played it though.

The one I really wanted was the book on devastated Souker to the east and the capital of Dibrey. It would have been interesting to have data on a semi-post-apocalypse land with more of a tech slant.

[Draygon]

Originally Posted by larsdangly

Yes, I've used these, and still own a full set (the two statted for TFT, and the two that are system neutral but originally intended to be part of the same setting.

My general feeling these days is that they are fun to page through if you are a collector, and they are certainly the largest fully written up regional settings for TFT, but they aren't actually that great as roleplaying settings. Ardonirane is substantially better, to my taste. Also, the NPC's have stat levels that are way off the charts for LE play.

I did notice that the stats seemed pretty high. I figured it was designed for a party ofseasoned characters, supplemented by some of the stronger npc's listed there. Ardinorainne has a rad oldschool d&d feel to it, that I enjoy as well.

[Draygon]

Originally Posted by JohnPaulB

I own both booklets and enjoy reading them every now and then. Never played it though.

The one I really wanted was the book on devastated Souker to the east and the capital of Dibrey. It would have been interesting to have data on a semi-post-apocalypse land with more of a tech slant.

YES! I think they should have started by releasing the Soukurr module first, as it more likely would have brought more customer engagement, due to the mysterious sci-fi nature of that region's backstory. The tie to old Mnoren culture always gets my imagination flowing.

[Draygon]

[QUOTE=Ferretman;2511009]I had slotted the first of these two into my campaign, with an eye towards moving the party (several thousand miles) via an adventure I had loosely called "The Epic". We'd eventually have ended up there in the easternmost area, and basically be dealing with new problems and such.

I ended up getting a real job and moving to Denver, which was the end of our campaign. I've got some notes for The Epic and character sheets but that was about it; we all went our own way after that.

Ferret[/Qflowing.

Man, that EPIC adventure must have been petty epic! What stat levels did the PC's have whwn you ran it?

[Ferretman]

Ferret[/Qflowing.

Man, that EPIC adventure must have been petty epic! What stat levels did the PC's have whwn you ran it?[/QUOTE]

Bunbury (my main wizard character) at that time had stats of:

ST - 13
DX - 16
IQ - 25

He was pretty well decked out when we stopped playing; we'd been on it for a good four years or so, I think.

Ferret