Blood of Orlanth
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Dara Happa Stirs is both sourcebook and campaign, dealing with the fight to overthrow the false Golden Dragon Empire. Lots of new stuff in there and I like it (I will start laying out this baby next month).
So that will be two campaigns in pretty quick succession, which should help alleviate the yearning for these (at least for a while!). With campaigns for Hawkmoon and Slaine due out over the coming months these will be getting some love as well.
(((I want to read Blood of Orlanth SO BAD, but I hope to get the playing experience of it some day in the not too distant future))).
So that will be two campaigns in pretty quick succession, which should help alleviate the yearning for these (at least for a while!). With campaigns for Hawkmoon and Slaine due out over the coming months these will be getting some love as well.
(((I want to read Blood of Orlanth SO BAD, but I hope to get the playing experience of it some day in the not too distant future))).
The King
Cosmic Mongoose
Please don't make any confusion with Walktapus.Voriof said:
I meant both culture have a clan organization, practice sheep raids, and some kind of leisure wars (to stay fit) between the clans, there is dragons nearby and the Slaine setting included myths which can easily fit into Orlanthi culture. after some adatation.
The King
Cosmic Mongoose
I don't know if you refer to MRQ Slaine or D20 Slaine. I don't have the first but the setting isn't unpleasant.soltakss said:
Many things are of course totally different (They don't have ruler rings but a king elected for 7 years (after which he is ritually sacrificed to the earth goddess) but there are many more things which can be integrated into Glorantha than say Elric, Hawkmoon or Lankhmar.
The next MRQ Slaine campaign is for beginners and could probably subtitute to the Apple Lane scenarios.
weasel_fierce
Mongoose
So any ducks ?
Loz
Mongoose
'Dara Happa Stirs' is 50% Dara Happan setting/background and 50% campaign. Mixed in with both the setting and campaign information are dozens of scenario hooks that can be used as standalone DH adventures or as part of the main campaign.
If I'd had time, I could have written a campaign book twice the size; but at almost 200 pages, its probably big enough already.
If I'd had time, I could have written a campaign book twice the size; but at almost 200 pages, its probably big enough already.
duncan_disorderly
Mongoose
Loz said:
I vote Mongoose commission Loz to write "Dara Happa Stirs again!" to make use of all these extra ideas ...
duncan_disorderly
Mongoose
soltakss said:
I'm liking it so far too. I like the fact it can be run for Orlanthi, EWF or God Learners, and this seems to work reasonably smoothly - at least at the start. "Out of Clan" Orlanthi might be a bit tricky, as their involvement relies more on the players deciding to get involved, and as we all know, players can sometimes be peverse.
I'd have preferred a bit more "description" repeated with the stats at the back of the book, and a better index/cross reference of characters. It is easy to get from the scenario description of the character to their stat block, but if you start with the stats it is not easy to locate the character in the text - so if a character catches your eye when you look up one character it can be difficult to work out exactly who they are (for instance the Stats migh say someone is a priest, but not which God they worship...)
soltakss said:
I'll not argue with either of those statements!
I'd more or less given up on Glorantha. Not having played previous versions, I knew it was supposed to be good, but somehow I couldn't get a handle on it as a GM - where to start? What genre are we in here? How do I run it?
But Blood of Orlanth came out, and I thought I'd give it one more chance. And suddenly I get it! I'm reading BoO and it's one of the best campaigns I've read in ages, so full of stuff that I know is going to make the players all round-eyed with amazement. The witch, early on, set the tone, but I think the episode "The Battle of the Crossings" (which I won't describe, cos that would spoil it) really did it for me; turning what was quite probably a comic interlude earlier in the campaign into a matter of major significance. Reminds me of Guy Gavriel Kay's "Fionavar Tapestry" -- proper mythic role-playing stuff! Full marks to Gareth Hanrahan for making me believe in Glorantha.
My *only* complaint is a production thing -- the maps are very dark. I doubt they're going to photocopy, and I'd like to be able to give them as handouts to my players. I wonder if Mongoose could be persuaded to give us PDFs or JPGs of them?
But Blood of Orlanth came out, and I thought I'd give it one more chance. And suddenly I get it! I'm reading BoO and it's one of the best campaigns I've read in ages, so full of stuff that I know is going to make the players all round-eyed with amazement. The witch, early on, set the tone, but I think the episode "The Battle of the Crossings" (which I won't describe, cos that would spoil it) really did it for me; turning what was quite probably a comic interlude earlier in the campaign into a matter of major significance. Reminds me of Guy Gavriel Kay's "Fionavar Tapestry" -- proper mythic role-playing stuff! Full marks to Gareth Hanrahan for making me believe in Glorantha.
My *only* complaint is a production thing -- the maps are very dark. I doubt they're going to photocopy, and I'd like to be able to give them as handouts to my players. I wonder if Mongoose could be persuaded to give us PDFs or JPGs of them?
As i've said I really like this book and nothing spoils it. The maps are dark and sometimes don't bear any relation to the description. Compare the description of Solmouth with its map, frex. That was a bit shoddy.
But again, not a problem that ruins the book its still up in the high 90s for me.
But again, not a problem that ruins the book its still up in the high 90s for me.
Mongoose Gar
Mongoose
I assure you, any maps in the book are better than my original sketch maps.
Thanks for the kind words. I love writing adventures...
Thanks for the kind words. I love writing adventures...
Mongoose Gar
Mongoose
soltakss said:
You going to do a review at some point?
