Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
I’ll talk to some of my Balkan friends. Alas. Though actually the history of Ragusa will probably be in Veneto? I’ll look into it. We did an epic road trip a couple years ago from Dubrovnik (side trip to Kotor- that bay is like black glass!) then up to Split (Diocletian’s palace and Klis), Zadar, Plitvitce, and finally to Laibach and Lake Bled. Best ever. I would live in all of those places.
So this is why Ragusa/Dubrovnik appeals to me because you only have to develop Venice(!) and local principalities surrounding on the Adriatic Coast, the Ottoman menace, and balancing between the superpowers of the day.
I’m interested in a Portuguese Age of Discovery setting for lots of reasons. Also as someone who comes to Codex from other games and thinks primarily of Codex sourcebooks as system agnostic, anything you guys turn towards with the level of detail you have thus far shown will be great. For my money though, keep digging in that Central European Salt-Mine! There’s a million Viking books but this that you’re doing now is a missing niche. I would buy deep-dives on those cities.
I would buy anything that fell into that 1400-1650 period that moved somewhat south into the Balkans and Adriatic. How about Ragusa?
If you have thoughts about Middle Eastern things, do let me know as I am fluent in Arabic.I’ve been playing a lot of Freeciv. I find it rather satisfying. I like the Leonard Nimoy voice-overs for CivIV but nothing since has grabbed me.
I mean, the raw historical narrative is bad-ass adventure fodder as-is. But you can add Templars and the Ark of the Covenant on top of things! (recall the book The Sign and the Seal).
Mythras does have a gateway license but I am not well versed in such things. I do tend to prefer d100 games, generally.
All of this!
I have wanted a campaign set during Athe Portuguese expedition during the Adal War for probably a decade.On another point though this reminds me of my interest in a Portuguese Age of Discovery campaign where merchants from Genoa, cartographers from Flanders, Gunners from Germany and adventurers from anywhere hopped on ships to sail out into nowhere or a crazy Sinbad movie.
Guns Germs and Steel was aight. It’s Collapse that you’re complaining about. There the end of Greenland is ultimately down to failure to adapt (to climate change). There was some extrapolation that the Greenlanders doubled down on their culture and butter-based diet rather than assimilate Inuit technology and for this they paid.
Well if you do go down to the Balkans, let me know, I could recommend some excellent resources, including a couple folks who speak Serbian/Croatian that you might rely on for translating. There’s so much potential along the Ottoman frontier.
Have you thought about republishing for other systems not D20?
A few years back I tried running the introductory adventure in the back of Zweihander (a WFRP 2nd ed Retro Clone) but instead of using Orcs as the baddies, I used Tatars led and magickally dominated by a female Taltos (Magyar shaman) and her daughter. I also put the party on a keelboat heading down the Danube to settle land on the frontier. Only it’s just after Mohacs, and nobody quite understands the ramifications of that disaster yet or quite understand that there’s no real authority between Buda or Belgrade. Got through a couple sessions before half the party dropped out.
You’re already in Silesia.. where next? The lands of the Bohemian Crown proper? Prague the Golden? Cracovia? Once you get to the Tatras you’re practically in Transcarpathia…
I am, along with a number of other folks, using Codex sourcebooks to inform our Mythras gaming. Mythras is a d100 ruleset based on Runequest (it’s basically Runequest 6th Ed). Several of us are rather into the 1400s-1600s and the Baltic sourcebooks align with that era as well as a Mythras book called Mythic Constantinople (which covers the period of the Conquest).
