SWADE recently came on my radar to potentially move onto after I finish Oracle of War and escape from the disruption of Revised 5E (One D&D or however you wanna say it). Also been looking at WWN but I’m not to sure that it’s mechanics aid in playing in a pulp/noir setting.
I feel called out, what’s wrong with just running Paragade every run?
Paragade Shepard Shepard is a pretty strong playthrough. My Shepard tends to be a bit more diplomatic with TIM until the crew gets thrown into the truly shitty situation on the Collector ship and EDI says the Illusive Man set us up. Yes, we got the data but Shepard stops being nice about going along with TIM.
I rarely posted on Reddit, mostly because I would try to find a conversation already in progress instead of making my own post. Also, my posts rarely caught that much traction. I commented a lot more frequently, several times a week. I’m still fairly infrequent, mostly because in my early internet years I posted A LOT of cringe on Facebook/Myspace so I tend to be a little more measured in my internet footprint now.
I love the IFAQs and other articles in Keith’s blog! I love the books about Eberron, but Keith always gives a bit more inspiration in the blogs because he asks some very good follow-up questions that he gives examples of what he would do. His engagement with the community on how to tell the story at your table is one of many reasons why I love Eberron.
Which of these these threads or one of your own do you like to imagine if you advanced the Eberron timeline five years?
Dragon Age 2. Lot’s of people think it’s the weakest game in the Dragon Age series and there is a lot to not like: dungeons and outdoor areas are largely the same recycled maps with different layouts, story was a bit lackluster compared to the previous title, party controls were a step down from Dragon Age Origins. I still enjoy it for the party dynamics and the main character dialogue wheel had more varied option that didn’t along with previous Bioware titles that had the good, neutral, and evil/jerk responses.
As a preface: I run Oracle of War on Roll20, so that is going to factor in to my answer. There’s no modules to get for it on Roll20, so I have ended up setting everything up manually. It is written for adventurers league, so for the most part NPC statblocks are from the core rulebooks. Someone also released battlemaps and the earlier ones are not that easy to line up with the Roll20 grid.
As far as session prep, that’s gotten easier with time as I’ve absorbed more Eberron lore, but when I just started out your given bare minimum information and there are somethings the authors took liberties with. I can’t speak to forming into into a more continuous story, so if you wanted to “fill in the blanks” between sessions then you’ll have a little more work. I am running it AL legit, so I have to worry less about that. One adventure I’m about to run does feel VERY shoehorned in, like literally bending geography to put the party where the adventure wanted it to be and that took me a while to reconcile.
Otherwise, most of my work has been in setting up the VTT.
Currently running Oracle of War, getting through the start of tier 3. Been going really well, players are enjoying themselves but I can’t wait to finish so I can move onto running a game “in my Eberron”. Not that Oracle is badly written (it’s been pretty good for the most part) but the Adventurers League feel looks like a spectre that I do my best to just make exist behind the scenes.
Crowdfunding played a part, but there’s also the vision and the plan to attain that vision, as well as the community behind the crowdfunding and dedication to quality. My employer is employee-owned, and so it shares a lot of values with Larian and were successful without needing to be publicly traded. It really is down to core values and how well those values are upheld internally, money is just a means to an end.