When is your campaign

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#1

Oninotaki

Oct 25, 2006 11:42:59
I have run 2 darksun campaigns in 3.0 and 3.5 the 1st one took place during the sorceror kings war against the druids and the current one takes place 500 years after free year 1. So my question to you guys is when have your campaigns taken place?
#2

kalthandrix

Oct 25, 2006 12:16:42
Current to the timeline of recent events - FY 12 or 13.
#3

korvar

Oct 25, 2006 12:32:39
Not that I'm running at the moment, but I always like to run a year or so before the Fall of Tyr, so the characters actually live through the events.
#4

dirk00001

Oct 25, 2006 14:20:35
My original DS campaign started about a half-year before Kalak's (attempted) transformation, and has since then diverted greatly from the established timeline. I'm currently on the 2nd-half of the 2nd campaign of my DS world, with something like 4 years of playing total, and at this point Andropinis and Kalak are dead, Tyr is controlled by devils that run it as a communist state and as of a month (real time) ago Balic's trade house triumvirate has just been deposed by an army of "high elves" from across the Silt Sea.
Obviously a lot more to it than that...but it's kinda difficult to break down 4 years of game time into a paragraph. ;)
#5

kalthandrix

Oct 25, 2006 14:59:55
try harder :P
#6

Kamelion

Oct 25, 2006 15:02:19
Mine is deliberately set as a "classic" DS campaign - start with A Little Knowledge and then move to the overthrow of Kalak, the war with Urik, Korgunard's transformation etc. I interweave the Prism Pentad stories with this, replacing the roles of the heroes with the roles of the PCs and plan to span the decade of heroes in its entirety. We are two or three years in right now - hope to keep it going strong in the new year...
#7

dirk00001

Oct 25, 2006 15:24:57
try harder :P

NEVER!! I'd rather die!

#8

zombiegleemax

Oct 25, 2006 17:05:04
I've been running a 2nd Ed game with my GF on and off... I'll move to third when I can get my gaming group back together.

We started a few months before Kalak's death... she (Thri-Kreen Gladiator) and and a few others escaped from the slave pens of Nibenay, made their way through the Crescent Forest, fought off persuing templars, got ran out of Gulg, fought off Slavers, came to terms with their various personality conflicts and made their way to Tyr just in time to catch a big show at the arena... now she's getting ready to join the Crimson Legion in the war with Urik.


We're now going to switch to another character for a while.

When I get the band back together, we'll probably do Road to Urik and Arcane Shadows. After that, I'll probably switch back to my own material. I might do Asticlian Gambit....


I'd really like to do a game in FY 12+, but only once I've actually used all these old 2nd ed materials I have lying around. (sigh) Someday...
#9

bengeldorn

Oct 25, 2006 18:07:17
My campaign started in Friend's Vengeance of the 190th King's Age in Urik, where the Obsidian Man escaped from the Palace.

The PCs got into the golden circlet into their hands with which they were able to trace the Obsidian Man. They decided to drop the circlet into the Silt Sea, because they thought, that this item would be too dangerous in the wrong hands (besides that ordered to kill everyone, who has been catched with golden circlet in his possesion).

Right now the campaign is only a couple months before Kalaks fall. So far the PCs have manged to hinder Dregoth's plans to conquer the tablelands, but this only causes only a delay to the point where many sorcerer kings got killed or imprisoned. Good for me, that they don't know the timeline, so they won't notice that they will be the reason for Dregoth's success in taking Raam down.

My idea was that Dregoth could have started his invasion erlier, but the PCs allways got in his way so that his plans only got delayed. With the events coming, more and more sorcerer kings will fall, that could have stopped Dregoth.
#10

pringles

Oct 25, 2006 22:55:21
My campaign is like 4 year old, and we are currently in free year 4, year of the Mountain fury. We play 2th edition.
#11

elonarc

Oct 26, 2006 5:59:21
I play before these so-called "Free Years". I do not like what Denning did with the freshly created world and ignore his books. The only event I use in my campaigns is the fall of Kalak, and that only after a campaign had lasted for a while so the players can actually experience life in a SK-controlled city. In my opinion, the setting loses a lot if you start right away with giving the players a "Free City".
#12

cnahumck

Oct 26, 2006 10:24:20
I am running my concurrent with the end of the PP series. Right now the Heroes of Tyr are leaving to kill the Dragon, and the PC's are still in Tyr, trying to stop a T'liz from raising an army of undead to take over the city. Also, some of the party members are part of an elf tribe that has been doing shady things, and they suspect that the leader of the tribe is about to preform step one of a dragon metamorphisis.

Personally, I find the current timeline much, much deadlier, because chaos is more rampant, and people have much more to lose, but huge amounts to gain. The risks seem to be worth it, and so the power struggle is enormous.
#13

zombiegleemax

Oct 26, 2006 11:44:43
I'm running a campaign sporadically.
The PCs didn't ask what the year was and I didn't tell them! That is, until the city of Raam started falling down around their ears with riots after Abalach-Re's death. So FY10 it is. I thought it would make an interesting transition for most of the players who had only known 2nd ed for the most part.
#14

Sysane

Oct 27, 2006 11:43:59
My campaign takes place around FY 13-14 after the events of my version of Dregoth Ascending.
#15

gilliard_derosan

Oct 28, 2006 1:24:45
I have been running my game for nearly 2 years now, and the game is still prior to any Free Years. My campaign is progressing in an alternate fashion to the novels, or the way the campaign setting presented things. Kalak is still alive, Abalach-Re is dead. Dregoth has been thoroghly ticked off by the group in a City by the Silt Sea campaign. Hamanu is upset at the players because they slew some of his templars, Nibenay has taken a liking to them and has plans on perhaps using them in the future to suit his purposes, and those are the only SKs they have run afoul of. Now, things are progressing so that Dregoth can come back in DA and continue to mess with the group.

Other things going on in my world.. Borys is starting his romp to gather his levy, and the group is wondering what to do since Raam (their home town) is without a SK now to deal with it, they don't think they could manage to somehow gather 1,000 slaves to pony up.. so they are instead on a mission to find some fabled artifact that made it's way to Athas millenia ago that is rumored to slay dragons so that they can rid the world of Borys (and not have to deal with the trouble of gathering his levy).

Kalak is moving towards his plan to skip into full stage dragon. I presented tidbits, and bait to get the group to Tyr in time to do something about it, but they would rather not go there, so I will probably have Kalak succeed, go insane from the transformation, and start wreaking havok on the world.

Thri-kreen are beginning to amass in the northwestern areas, raiding outposts and such. Growing restless. I still don't know where exactly I want to go with this just yet, but it is happening....

And of course, Dregoth is soon to beging his siege of Raam again.. (Yes, in my campaign it has been maybe 4 months tops since the group foiled his plans from the City by the Silt Sea adventure, but no matter... It was actually Dregoth in my world that killed Abalach-Re to throw Raam into a state of confusion so as to make his invasion that much easier to deal with when the time came)



So, in a way, I take some elements from "canon", but my world is progressing differently.