Thoughts?
I esectially was going to use the races from MM1 for the Green Age races, goblinoids, orcs, etc. Realizing that even some of the Green Age counterparts were different, and the fact that I ran into some real life issues, I wasn't able to get the campaign going.
Looking forward to running it again if I find some willing players though at this point I just might concentrate on creating a Barsoom Dark Sun or maybe a Dark Sun with some Barsoom elements.
The Real Dark Sun
Someone else (Grummore?) was working on a Green Age setting that would be based either just before or at the start of the Clensing Wars. Not sure how its going though.
As for porting in another campaign setting to use as Green Age Athas, I guess its each to their own. From what I've gathered though through City by the Silt Sea, Windriders, and the Last Sea books, Athas' past was very different than a standard medievil campaign setting. I think innitially, one was led to believe that Athas' past was a normal one, but ths was a play on assumptions by the setting creators. The only problem with porting in another setting may come from the player's knowledge of the setting as they begin to search for clues about Elminster or Raistlin or fret about the ancient Iuz Empire, even if you have yet to introduce these specific elements into your Athasian past. For a quick port with minimal effort, I'd suggest finding a setting (rp game or even fantasy novel based) that your players know nothing about (Scarred Lands, Kalamar, or even Exalted, while all somewhat popular, are still unknown to many players; in the novel genre Tad William's Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy [I forget the world name], or for a real twist, the Green Age was Arrakis, Dune, during the reign of Emperor Leto II and the Blue Age was a lie ;)).
Got the books on order though, just could never get past Hubert's writing style of taking 20 pages to describe a lamp. Ah well, Tolkien and Robert Jordan aren't too far from being that descriptive and I can deal with them, so here goes nothing.
). Actually, I think it was a love of Dune that led to a love of Athas.I digress yet again. (stick to the thread topic I tell myself, but it never happens).
Now that I find out that Athas was actually based on Barsoom and bits and pieces still made it to the final product, only makes me want to read those books now as well, which I have the first 5 coming. They look short and should provide the much needed break between the Wheel of Time books.
I also have all 6 books added to my wish list as well as the series on the houses and the Machine Crusade, which I guess is done by his sone and Kevin Anderson (another writer I enjoy). No idea what this book is about but I added it anyways.
Anyhoo, I was thinking, judging by what I'm seeing with the Barsoom art it looks like a world that is a bit on the tech side. You could probably use some of these elements for the Green Age and say they are psionic based instead, since there were psionic steps and such that teleported people around and did various other things.
Although, I do like Mach's idea of having the Blue Age be a complete lie, mwuahahaha. Think it would be interesting to make the Green Age a lie too, or mostly a lie. The world has always been barren, it's just gotten worse over the centuries. The Cleansing Wars were overexaggerated, Rajaat, if you ignore the PP that is, is just a conjuration of fear that the champions/SMs created to instill fear in the masses and has, over the generations, turned to the current ghost stories told to children at bedtime now.
Nyt, you are ebil.
Very, very ebil.
I like it . . . .
It was mostly conceived from Barsoom though.