DnD® comes to Middle-earth®.

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Post by Glorelendil » Thu Jul 21, 2016 1:47 pm

Otaku-sempai wrote: I agree, but I don't think that I would ever run a D&D campaign set in a world dominated by the Great Old Ones and Elder Gods.
Why?
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Post by Otaku-sempai » Thu Jul 21, 2016 2:10 pm

Too grim and gritty for my taste. That would be a very dark, depressing setting even if the pantheons of the demi-human races are still in play. And with the worshippers of the more traditional D&D gods reduced to banned cults. I can certainly see the challenges involved! It might be worth more consideration after all.
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Post by Glorelendil » Thu Jul 21, 2016 2:15 pm

Otaku-sempai wrote:Too grim and gritty for my taste. That would be a very dark, depressing setting even if the pantheons of the demi-human races are still in play. And with the worshippers of the more traditional D&D gods reduced to banned cults. I can certainly see the challenges involved! It might be worth more consideration after all.
Ah, you meant using the D&D setting. I thought you meant the rule set.
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Post by Otaku-sempai » Thu Jul 21, 2016 2:43 pm

Glorelendil wrote:Ah, you meant using the D&D setting. I thought you meant the rule set.
No, for a standard CoC game I would either use CoC D20 (supplemented with Modern D20?) or the Chaosium rules derived from RuneQuest. But we have wandered off-topic.
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Post by Rich H » Thu Jul 21, 2016 3:17 pm

Glorelendil wrote:Ah, you meant using the D&D setting.
Could see Shadow of the Demon Lord being pretty good for that, although it is mostly set in the end-times, a supplement could easily spec out things post-apocalypse. Then there's the old d20 Midnight setting - I remember that being well done and interesting and very much in the mold of "what if Sauron won".
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Post by T.S. Luikart » Thu Jul 21, 2016 5:39 pm

If you guys really want to talk a grim setting, our World War Cthulhu Cold War is about the grimmest thing Cubicle 7 has done. Now that said we are definitely off topic - back to the subject at hand.

[And yes, that pains me, as I've written for SotDL. ;) ]
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Re: DnD® comes to Middle-earth®.

Post by Rich H » Fri Jul 22, 2016 11:07 am

T.S. Luikart wrote:[And yes, that pains me, as I've written for SotDL. ;) ]
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Post by silverfoxdmt73 » Sat Jul 23, 2016 3:13 pm

Apologies if this is the 99th time of asking, but is there a release date for this game yet?

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Post by SirGalrim » Sat Jul 23, 2016 3:22 pm

silverfoxdmt73 wrote:Apologies if this is the 99th time of asking, but is there a release date for this game yet?
No it's all very strange. C7 hasn't said anything about the product after the initial announcement even if half of summer has passed. Likely we will know more at GenCon.

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Post by Enevhar Aldarion » Sun Jul 24, 2016 6:45 pm

SirGalrim wrote:
silverfoxdmt73 wrote:Apologies if this is the 99th time of asking, but is there a release date for this game yet?
No it's all very strange. C7 hasn't said anything about the product after the initial announcement even if half of summer has passed. Likely we will know more at GenCon.
Actually, Summer is only just over a third over, so they have plenty of time to drag out...... I mean, polish up the next announcement. ;)

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