The notion of running an historical campaign has been intriguing me for some time now. Has anybody here run one before? I'd love to hear what people have done with Mystara's history as a game. Perhaps we can help each other develop this great potenial of Mystara.
The notion of running an historical campaign has been intriguing me for some time now. Has anybody here run one before? I'd love to hear what people have done with Mystara's history as a game. Perhaps we can help each other develop this great potenial of Mystara.
That's something I was planning to do for sometime, a campaign in the Savage Baronies region, starting in 900 or 905 AC
This post actually began as a reply in the "A map of Glantri 500 AC" thread.
The notion of running an historical campaign has been intriguing me for some time now. Has anybody here run one before? I'd love to hear what people have done with Mystara's history as a game. Perhaps we can help each other develop this great potenial of Mystara.
I myself have only run a one-shot based on the Quagmire module, set around 600 AC.
I think, though, that Mystara is extremely well suited to this kind of campaigns, with the HW providing source material for many ancient civilizations.
PCs inherited an house in Glantri, but it turned up... hunted! Each morning the bed was red with blood, but no one was ingiuried.
The truth is that in that bed a wife killed her husband, becouse she saw him raping their children. What an horrible story! The blood is the husband's blood. That's why no one is inguried today. But PCs could know nothing about that. So they had to go back in the past, know the former house resident and discover about the **** and the killing.
And they also discovered that the killed husband did not recieved a proper burning. That's why he "lives" again his murder every night. Returning in 1000AC, PCs find some bone in the garden, bury it, and the hunting is over.
A nice adventure, no monsters, no strenght needed, just interaction with NPCs to discover things in the past, exploration of the past was very amousing, with the evil guy, the husband, living his day in an inn and not warking at all... a true never do well guy!
I played a "back in the past" adventure, in Braejr.
PCs inherited an house in Glantri, but it turned up... hunted! Each morning the bed was red with blood, but no one was ingiuried.
The truth is that in that bed a wife killed her husband, becouse she saw him raping their children. What an horrible story! The blood is the husband's blood. That's why no one is inguried today. But PCs could know nothing about that. So they had to go back in the past, know the former house resident and discover about the **** and the killing.
And they also discovered that the killed husband did not recieved a proper burning. That's why he "lives" again his murder every night. Returning in 1000AC, PCs find some bone in the garden, bury it, and the hunting is over.
A nice adventure, no monsters, no strenght needed, just interaction with NPCs to discover things in the past, exploration of the past was very amousing, with the evil guy, the husband, living his day in an inn and not warking at all... a true never do well guy!
I like this story. Like you say, pretty grotesque, but sounds like an interesting gaming experience.
I have never ran any historical campaigns in Mystara (still hoping to do a Blackmoor one), I have always liked the idea of picking up one of the Hollow World countries and using that as a basis for a historical campaign. Nithia would probably be my favorite choice.
Havard