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If you run a 3rd Ed Birthright campaign, speak up.

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#1
lincoln_hills
Sep 22, 2004 17:09:15 Those of you who've been here a while know that I previously recommended the Arcana Unearthed rules for any attempts to launch your very own 3rd Edition Birthright campaign. I'm just curious - have any of you done so?

In particular - anybody out there doing "traditional adventure" in Cerilia, as opposed to the "empire building" campaigns? (Nothing wrong with those, but I'm more interested in comments on how 3.whatever interacts with the Birthright setting.) Also, what sort of house-rules have you used to cover the existence of awnsheighlien, blood powers, tieghmaevril and other BR-specific things?
#2
xagunder
Sep 30, 2004 18:31:34 I'm running a 3.5 D&D campaign set in the Birthright world. Called BIRTHRIGHT: Throne of Aerenwe, it is set in Anuire's Sothern Coast region, and is a Common Adventurers sort of game. The PCs have one year to adventure, gain wealth and fame, and beat out a number of other adventuring parties for Queen Swordwraith's throne.

I use core rules (minus gnomes and half-orcs) and Unearthed Arcana (for bloodlines and world specific race paragons [this is how the halflings get their Shadow World abilities). I've used Complete Warrior and Complete Divine, and plan to use the other two Complete books.

Deities & Demigods, Manual of the Planes, and the Planar Handbook have all been helpful in the design of my campaign's cosmology: three Upper Planes for the three families of non-evil gods, a Lower Plane that was once Azrai's domain (with rumors of 2 others he destroyed/took over), the demiplanes used by Karesha and Belinik as their divine realms, the Shadow World, and the Astral.

My players are enjoying what I've put together so far, and I have plans to offer them multiple paths of adventure (including a Slavers campaign against yuan-ti and agents of the Serpent in Mieres, a war sponsored by Ghoere through Diemed into Medoere-Ilien-Roesone, and a wonderful adventure I plan to call "The Seven Daughters of the Sword Mage" -- all of whom will be planetouched thanks to his fascination with conjuration magic).
#3
Raesene_Andu
Oct 01, 2004 3:41:36 I've never understood the facination everyone has with converting BR's bloodlines to a complex 3E ruleset, when they function fine as they are.

I'm currently running 3E Birthright campaign set in and around Tuarhievel (although my PCs are currently scattered across Cerilia at the moment). I use just the 3 core rulebooks (and the BR material of course), but I am using a couple of rules from Unearthed Arcanea, including the action pts rule.
#4
zombiegleemax
Oct 29, 2004 23:45:26 Hi. My husband and I run a Birthright PBeM on the Internet, using the BRCS-playtest doc from Birthright.net. We definately do not use the rules from Arcana Unearthed, nor Unearthed Arcana for the Bloodlines or anything else at this time, preferring to keep bloodlines separate from other parts of character creation, like feats and skills. The way characters in the old Ruins of Empire were written up, using feats for bloodline makes it impossible to duplicate the characters as written from 2nd ed to 3e.

The Brcs playtest has done a pretty good job of dealing with it. (lol, IMHO)

We use feats, classes, spells etc from the Core books as well as some from the Divine Books and the Miniatures Handbook.
For tabletop games in our home, we usually do both adventure and empire building, but its hard to adventure by email, so we try not to encourage TOO much of it.

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#1 lincoln_hills Sep 22, 2004 17:09:15	Those of you who've been here a while know that I previously recommended the Arcana Unearthed rules for any attempts to launch your very own 3rd Edition Birthright campaign. I'm just curious - have any of you done so? In particular - anybody out there doing "traditional adventure" in Cerilia, as opposed to the "empire building" campaigns? (Nothing wrong with those, but I'm more interested in comments on how 3.whatever interacts with the Birthright setting.) Also, what sort of house-rules have you used to cover the existence of awnsheighlien, blood powers, tieghmaevril and other BR-specific things?
#2 xagunder Sep 30, 2004 18:31:34	I'm running a 3.5 D&D campaign set in the Birthright world. Called BIRTHRIGHT: Throne of Aerenwe, it is set in Anuire's Sothern Coast region, and is a Common Adventurers sort of game. The PCs have one year to adventure, gain wealth and fame, and beat out a number of other adventuring parties for Queen Swordwraith's throne. I use core rules (minus gnomes and half-orcs) and Unearthed Arcana (for bloodlines and world specific race paragons [this is how the halflings get their Shadow World abilities). I've used Complete Warrior and Complete Divine, and plan to use the other two Complete books. Deities & Demigods, Manual of the Planes, and the Planar Handbook have all been helpful in the design of my campaign's cosmology: three Upper Planes for the three families of non-evil gods, a Lower Plane that was once Azrai's domain (with rumors of 2 others he destroyed/took over), the demiplanes used by Karesha and Belinik as their divine realms, the Shadow World, and the Astral. My players are enjoying what I've put together so far, and I have plans to offer them multiple paths of adventure (including a Slavers campaign against yuan-ti and agents of the Serpent in Mieres, a war sponsored by Ghoere through Diemed into Medoere-Ilien-Roesone, and a wonderful adventure I plan to call "The Seven Daughters of the Sword Mage" -- all of whom will be planetouched thanks to his fascination with conjuration magic).
#3 Raesene_Andu Oct 01, 2004 3:41:36	I've never understood the facination everyone has with converting BR's bloodlines to a complex 3E ruleset, when they function fine as they are. I'm currently running 3E Birthright campaign set in and around Tuarhievel (although my PCs are currently scattered across Cerilia at the moment). I use just the 3 core rulebooks (and the BR material of course), but I am using a couple of rules from Unearthed Arcanea, including the action pts rule.
#4 zombiegleemax Oct 29, 2004 23:45:26	Hi. My husband and I run a Birthright PBeM on the Internet, using the BRCS-playtest doc from Birthright.net. We definately do not use the rules from Arcana Unearthed, nor Unearthed Arcana for the Bloodlines or anything else at this time, preferring to keep bloodlines separate from other parts of character creation, like feats and skills. The way characters in the old Ruins of Empire were written up, using feats for bloodline makes it impossible to duplicate the characters as written from 2nd ed to 3e. The Brcs playtest has done a pretty good job of dealing with it. (lol, IMHO) We use feats, classes, spells etc from the Core books as well as some from the Divine Books and the Miniatures Handbook. For tabletop games in our home, we usually do both adventure and empire building, but its hard to adventure by email, so we try not to encourage TOO much of it.