OnceUponAnAxe
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Post by OnceUponAnAxe on Mar 3, 2020 19:13:29 GMT -8
One of my friends has an elaborate one he uses. He loaned it to a cousin or something a few months ago and it’s been conspicuously absent from the table of late.
I find them fun.
Has anyone else noticed an uptick in “strangers in a strange world games” lately? I’ve noticed more of them flavored like the Isekai animes that are popular. Seen lots of them on GITP and Myth-Weavers.
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Post by Daos on Mar 3, 2020 19:45:21 GMT -8
I've noticed an uptick of them in anime. I remember I was first surprised when I learned they were actually common enough to have their own genre name. I haven't noticed an increase of them in D&D games, though. That's kind of funny. I guess that means the old 80's D&D cartoon was the original Isekai?
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Post by Daos on Mar 28, 2020 12:57:19 GMT -8
So now that I've finished Lost Mine of Phandelver and have Tyranny of Dragons up and running, it looks like the next module on the list would be Princes of the Apocalypse. Anyone here have any experience with it? Is it any good?
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Post by GreyWolfVT on Mar 29, 2020 5:12:10 GMT -8
So now that I've finished Lost Mine of Phandelver and have Tyranny of Dragons up and running, it looks like the next module on the list would be Princes of the Apocalypse. Anyone here have any experience with it? Is it any good? None that I can recall. Did you ever end up getting Ghosts of Saltmarsh? I was looking forward to playing in that if you ever did get it and decided to run it.
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Post by Daos on Mar 29, 2020 11:24:13 GMT -8
Not yet, but it is on my list. I'd like to eventually run all of the 5E modules sooner or later, except maybe Curse of Strahd; we'll see.
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OnceUponAnAxe
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Post by OnceUponAnAxe on Mar 29, 2020 11:46:39 GMT -8
I have material prepped for a homebrew heavy Tomb if Annihilation. My IRL group was interested in an Elder Scrolls homebrew that someone worked on for 5e...I decided to use Tomb as the module.
It worked pretty good for a few sessions. Then the group broke up over work schedules.
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Post by Daos on May 1, 2020 14:01:31 GMT -8
Have you ever noticed that every D&D world, both published and homebrewed, is always polytheistic and never monotheistic? I think Dragonlance has the fewest number of gods at 21 for a published setting, and there's still a lot of overlap (several different nature gods, for instance, three different magic gods, etc.). Then on the flip side, you have Forgotten Realms which has so many gods I don't think I could come close to naming them all.
Why is this? My theory is that a lot of it boils down to player choice. The more gods you have, the more priesthoods you have. The more priesthoods you have, the more choices players have when they decide to play a cleric or paladin or any other divine caster.
But what do you think? Have you ever been in or run a game that was monotheistic? How did that turn out?
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Post by GreyWolfVT on May 1, 2020 15:47:28 GMT -8
Personally I like how it's not limiting to just 1 diety I would find that far too restricting. That and maybe a lot of the people that create/created these settings were into greek/Egyptian or norse mythology and they wanted something similar. I suppose if a setting were in a more advanced time frame maybe the deity scenario would be different?
Eh just my first impression i suppose.
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Post by Daos on May 2, 2020 13:36:21 GMT -8
I don't think it necessarily has to be restricting, though. You can always have multiple sects, after all. There are always lots of different interpretations of any god's will.
I did once run a monotheistic game. It was a bronze age like setting, and the one god lived in a castle in the sky. He mostly kept to himself, just watching things play out from above. But he would sometimes send heralds down to the world below to shake things up or move things toward a specific direction. Although he was the only god in the setting, there were other religions, though. Primalism, which was basically druidism. And there was devil worship, as well. It worked out pretty well, but it was still a fairly new setting so didn't have that much time to really grow, either. I've thought about bringing it back, which is what prompted this discussion.
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Post by GreyWolfVT on May 3, 2020 8:23:20 GMT -8
Ah but see I don't see it as ever truly a monotheistic setting if different civilizations or "people" have their own one god or one one belief. Worship of Nature rather than an almighty being vs some say christian like society is not monotheistic. Sure each group is monotheistic in their worship but that would be technically 2 different deities. Which if you look back at those types of times or ages different countries had even in some cases the same one true higher power or almighty and still went to battle claiming their version of the religion was right or better than the other societies version. So I guess my initial interpretation of it being restricted makes no sense figuring everyone everywhere worshiping the same "god" would be dully and boring since everyone would never argue over it like they do with different gods. Personally I wouldn't want a monotheistic setting as it would feel a little too much like modern times where there are several different types of the religions based upon the same or similar "higher being" so maybe that is just me. I have always been drawn to mythology types of religion or religions like they have in Eastern religions.
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Post by Daos on May 3, 2020 11:47:10 GMT -8
I suppose it's a matter of semantics, but I don't really consider forces and philosophies to be gods. Nature is an unthinking force; it has no intelligence. (Unless you're referring to a god of nature, like Chauntea or Chisliv.) But I suppose it does raise some interesting questions. If someone worships a dragon or a demon, or something like that, and is able to draw power from them, does that mean said dragon or demon is a god? Is a god just anything that can be worshiped or are there specific requirements that must be met first? It reminds me of Stargate. Are the Goa'ulds gods? The Ori?
In any case, I disagree that if everyone worships the same god, there are no arguments or even outright religious wars. To use a real world example, Jews, Muslims and Christians all worship the same god, and they don't exactly have a history of peace together. Or even Christianity outright. There are over 2,000 sects of it, and each one believes they are the true interpretation and the others are all heretics.
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Post by GreyWolfVT on May 3, 2020 13:19:52 GMT -8
Yeah but again I'd rather not dive into a RP game that is the same as real life. The point of playing these games for me is to escape and get a break from real life. Now how about a setting or world/realm where there are no gods and everyone worships things like nature, or dragons or something of that nature?
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Post by Daos on May 4, 2020 13:37:37 GMT -8
I'm not sure what you mean when you say a D&D game with a monotheistic culture would be just like real life. I'm not aware of any real life religion where clerics gain spells for praying, or where there are dragons, wizards, orcs and what have you. Besides, there are polytheistic religions in real life, too. Hinduism, for instance.
A world without gods could be interesting. Dragonlance did that twice.
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Post by Daos on May 6, 2020 16:33:16 GMT -8
Have you guys ever heard of a West March style game? Or ever participated in something like that? I admit, a part of it sounds appealing to me, in that it's a great workaround to having multiple players who can't always meet up consistently to game. On the other hand, a game with zero focus on social interaction and roleplaying would be kind of a bummer.
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Post by GreyWolfVT on May 7, 2020 2:06:00 GMT -8
Have you guys ever heard of a West March style game? Or ever participated in something like that? I admit, a part of it sounds appealing to me, in that it's a great workaround to having multiple players who can't always meet up consistently to game. On the other hand, a game with zero focus on social interaction and roleplaying would be kind of a bummer. Nope I have not heard of or participated in anything like that before.
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