Comments on: Adventuring in Atlantis

By: Paolo Greco

Paolo Greco — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:16:33 +0000

I’d actually avoid using Greek architecture for Atlantis proper, but go for, well, you can imagine.
I’d like to elaborate but I don’t know if your players are reading

By: bat

bat — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:31:09 +0000

The old Bard Games Atlantean World is priceless for this. The setting coupled Atlantis and the pre-flood world with traditional D&D ideas and races (elves, dwarfs and more!)The Atlantean Bestiary is absolutely a MUST for your game.

By: Kilgore

Kilgore — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:48:07 +0000

Thanks! I realize that there’s nothing ground-breaking going on here. But I’ve never run a campaign like this, though a lot of it is stuff I’ve “always wanted to do.”

By: Kilgore

Kilgore — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:46:28 +0000

having a steady (if infrequent) stream of adventurers to the island ensures plenty o warm bodies when a new PC needs to be rolled up

Actually, that is EXACTLY what I have in mind. I didn’t mean that NPC adventurers don’t exist anywhere, just that they aren’t doing much in the campaign and that PCs won’t ever (or at least only very rarely) meet them.

Plus, the deaths of these other adventurers in other parts of the island’s interior gives rise to all sorts of rumors and adventure hooks for the PCs’ party.

Yes, this too, though for the most part these “they never came back” NPC adventurers will have gone before the PCs arrived in-world.

By: Timeshadows

Timeshadows — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:33:14 +0000

Sounds very good.

By: JB

JB — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:22:06 +0000

It all sounds excellent, though I wouldn’t be so quick to close the lid on hirelings…having a steady (if infrequent) stream of adventurers to the island ensures plenty o warm bodies when a new PC needs to be rolled up. Plus, the deaths of these other adventurers in other parts of the island’s interior gives rise to all sorts of rumors and adventure hooks for the PCs’ party.

Just have the henchman types be an independent sort that are rarely (if ever) interested in joining the PCs. If you want the PCs to be the main influence on the events of the island then make sure (as DM) that the actions of independent adventures never amount to much!

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