Thanks for the walkthrough and your time & energy. Appreciate it, I'm currently homebrewing a 5e version for Brightright. Long time in the works finally putting stuff on paper.

@OwenEdwardsBooks

2 жыл бұрын

I hope the homebrew goes well - come back and update me!

This campaign setting was one I always wanted to play but never got the chance. My D&D group at the time was deeply rooted in Forgotten Realms with occasional vacations to Ravenloft. We had accumulated so much extra material(adventure modules, source books etc…) and no one wanted to start over lol. The map and the human migration has a strong resemblance to the setting of two book series by David Eddings, “The Elenium” and “The Tamuli”. “Inspiration” sounds better than copied lol.

@OwenEdwardsBooks

2 жыл бұрын

I'm read the Tamuli, never "went back" to the Belgariad. I haven't run Birthright but would love to, and have stolen systems from it.

I've never had a chance to play Birthright other than the computer game. I have all the products including the books. I'm thinking of making a Vassal version of Birthright so I can play it online - the adventure part would need to be a bit abstract since the only maps would be the main one (full continent) and a battle board for the armies. I would have all the charts and so on and realm control sheets. I've made my own American Civil War and WWII Vassal games so I have some experience with this.

@davidhalseyhiller4955

2 жыл бұрын

I'm surprised you didn't mention the other 28 products (at least that they are out there, obviously no time to go over them). And of course the five books and the computer game. Some of the incomplete systems are at least fleshed more out, and there are better examples of adventures. Plus carving out your own domain in the wastes.

@OwenEdwardsBooks

2 жыл бұрын

Hi David - I don't really deal with the rest of the line as I'm dealing with it as a standalone, but you're quite right there's a lot of useful extra stuff. "Giantdowns" has very useful domain systems for instance, and "Blood Enemies" is very strong on awnshegh, which I think is necessary. I think a VASL module would be very useful, especially the more maths it does for you! Do get in touch if you ever do that. Great idea.

@davidhalseyhiller4955

2 жыл бұрын

@@OwenEdwardsBooks Hey Owen - I've started working on it now, and I have noticed that Birthright leaves out some data, presumably with the idea that it is a mystery that the GM will fill in. I will give actual values in all those cases (including starting armies). A GM could always make any changes that they want after, but I want to start with all the information complete. So that's what I'm working on now, filling in the gaps. As I said, I will have abstract adventures - but a GM could always just do that separately, especially if they used the Vassal module as a tool to keep track of the world.

ever since i found the pc game i have been wanting to run this as a setting, unfortunately i never found anyone willing and i am not much of a (a)dnd fan to begin with... still i have used elements of it for a star wars campaign that ran a few years with players having to deal with a couple of minor sith lords on a planet way out in the outer rim during the kotor age

@OwenEdwardsBooks

2 жыл бұрын

I'd love to run a Birthright campaign in the next few years. I also have stolen elements! Never did play the video game, or the well reviewed Dark Sun ones.

Have you had an opportunity to run this setting online? If so, how well does the "wargame" part of the rules work?

@OwenEdwardsBooks

9 ай бұрын

I haven't run this online. I have played the wargame on tabletop. It's functional and has some funky elements but its comparative simplicity is also its limitation - Battlesystem or Chainmail offer much more interesting choices. Birthright being "element level" rather than man to man is good though.

Are you familiar with the faction rules from Kevin Crawfords stable of games Worlds without Number ? Would Birthright be more complex than those?

@OwenEdwardsBooks

Жыл бұрын

No but I'd be up for reading them - link?