I'm getting ready to DM my first campaign and want to base it off of The Princess Bride world. I was wondering what would be a good one off campaign for it to warm up my players (two of them are Noobs)?
I'm pretty sure signing on with the Dread Pirate Roberts would keep the interest of experienced players as well as give plenty of opportunities for new players to learn the basics. Maybe adapt a couple of adventures out of Ghosts of Saltmarsh, culminating in a fight with Shrieking Eels. That or a land based mercenary campaign.
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Have the players seen the movie? If so, you should expect one of them to have a background that someone killed their father and must prepare to die....
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That world is at least loosely based on ours. After all, Patagonia, Australia, Spain, and Sicily are all real places. There are certain anachronisms though.
At one point Wesley mentions that the OG DPR had retired to Patagonia. Patagonia is a real place, its the southernmost reg ion of South America. However, Europeans had no idea such a place existed until after 1530 (the early 16th century). By then, Europeans were already using gunpowder weapons starting in the early Renaissance (14th century), which events led to several other technological advancements which led to armor being obsolete and therefore liter weapons like Rapiers becoming popular by the end of the Renaissance (17th century). Without that technology, heavy Armor would not have become obsolete. As long as people wore heavy armor, fencing would not have become a viable ways for people to kill each other.
In the movie, the arms, armor, and other equipment all track for a para-Renaissance(ish) state of technology, which tracks with European awareness of the Americas. But there is not a single cannon, gun, or grenade ever shown on screen, nor ever mentioned by any of the characters. Gunpowder was so essential to any military at that time that realistically there should have been some signs of something. Especially since the Prince and the Duke were already planning to start a war with the neighboring country of Guilder. (So there shoulda been guns and cannons all over the place!)
I'm getting ready to DM my first campaign and want to base it off of The Princess Bride world. I was wondering what would be a good one off campaign for it to warm up my players (two of them are Noobs)?
I'm pretty sure signing on with the Dread Pirate Roberts would keep the interest of experienced players as well as give plenty of opportunities for new players to learn the basics. Maybe adapt a couple of adventures out of Ghosts of Saltmarsh, culminating in a fight with Shrieking Eels. That or a land based mercenary campaign.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
Have the players seen the movie? If so, you should expect one of them to have a background that someone killed their father and must prepare to die....
WOTC lies. We know that WOTC lies. WOTC knows that we know that WOTC lies. We know that WOTC knows that we know that WOTC lies. And still they lie.
Because of the above (a paraphrase from Orwell) I no longer post to the forums -- PM me if you need help or anything.
If you haven’t seen this yet, I recommend checking out Fandom’s wiki for The Princess Bride. It even has a map of Florin and Guildor you could use:
https://princessbride.fandom.com/wiki/The_Princess_Bride_(book)
That world is at least loosely based on ours. After all, Patagonia, Australia, Spain, and Sicily are all real places. There are certain anachronisms though.
At one point Wesley mentions that the OG DPR had retired to Patagonia. Patagonia is a real place, its the southernmost reg ion of South America. However, Europeans had no idea such a place existed until after 1530 (the early 16th century). By then, Europeans were already using gunpowder weapons starting in the early Renaissance (14th century), which events led to several other technological advancements which led to armor being obsolete and therefore liter weapons like Rapiers becoming popular by the end of the Renaissance (17th century). Without that technology, heavy Armor would not have become obsolete. As long as people wore heavy armor, fencing would not have become a viable ways for people to kill each other.
In the movie, the arms, armor, and other equipment all track for a para-Renaissance(ish) state of technology, which tracks with European awareness of the Americas. But there is not a single cannon, gun, or grenade ever shown on screen, nor ever mentioned by any of the characters. Gunpowder was so essential to any military at that time that realistically there should have been some signs of something. Especially since the Prince and the Duke were already planning to start a war with the neighboring country of Guilder. (So there shoulda been guns and cannons all over the place!)
I hope some of that helps.
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They also mention that you should "Never get into a land war in Asia." Also a real place, so I hear.
WOTC lies. We know that WOTC lies. WOTC knows that we know that WOTC lies. We know that WOTC knows that we know that WOTC lies. And still they lie.
Because of the above (a paraphrase from Orwell) I no longer post to the forums -- PM me if you need help or anything.
I'm hoping they have and I wanted it to be a surprise but I was trying to tie something like that in.