FXR's New Heroes of Blackmoor

[Havard]

Thank you for your kind words.

As for rules, I tried to keep things simple, according to the C&C philosophy, but I had to adapt a few things regarding character races.

- Both docrae and halflings are mechanically identical to C&C halflings;
- Cumasti and Westryn elves are mechanically identical to C&C elves;
- High Thonians are treated as C&C humans, except they must choose Charisma, Intelligence or both as prime attributes. They start the game with 5d4x10 extra gold pieces;
- Thonians are treated as C&C humans;
- Peshwah have two Prime attributes (unlike other humans who have three). Like some half-elves, they have an intermediate attribute. They do not suffer the penalty associated with fighting horsemounted and start the game with a steppe charger.[/list]

Sounds like a fairly good start. Keeping it simple makes sense too. I started a thread about C&C and Blackmoor here.

That being said, I'll go back to the campaign.

While the wokan isn't exactly a pleasant person, she is not really a villain. In fact, as the game start she isn't a credible threat even for low-level PCs. The real threat is the corrupted inquisitor (at least for the first scenario or so).

Cool, I like it when things aren't strictly black & white. Do you have any more details on this inquisitor guy? The Cabal Inquisitors do not seem to be very nice people in the first place. Which inquisitors are? I am tempted to giving the inquisitors red robes and large hats, but I fear this could result in too many in-jokes...

However, the wokan is connected to at least two of the PCs:

- one of the PCs is, unknown to him, a cave bear or a sabertooth tiger (I'm not sure, yet) she polymorphed into a human with the aid of a magical device. Basically, the bear was a cub whose mother was killed by the local lord for sport. The wokan, using a few threat, convinced the local lord to act as a godfather for the cub which she polymorphed into a human child, crafting a magical device for this purpose. However, she had absolutely not planned that the bear turned into a human would develop a soul and become a paladin of the High Thonian Church. In fact, a few priests of Odir are surprised and question their god's decision to welcome a bear as a paladin ;

Interesting! I have heard of humans being turned into animals and slowly loosing their intelligences (in games), but never of animals turning into humans. One of the campaigns played here, the LFC did feature Bear-men called Ursai, but that is not strictly the same thing....

- the other PC is - or was a powerful inquisitor. Unfortunately, during the battle with the Wokan, she cursed him "you who tries to rob me of my future, I rob you of your past". He forgot almost everything he knew. He starts the game as a low-level wizard, with a spell focus and no knowledge of his past. During the game, he'll get occasional flashbacks about his pasts. Perhaps, he'll even find his own tower one day!

Interesting! Love this backstory. Was the wizard from Blackmoor or some other land? if he was from Blackmoor, would he not risk running into old friends (or enemies)?

-Havard