Ive been thinking about running a game in Sarlona, specifically the Forest of Lurking Shadows. Can anyone give me any advice on running a campaign in this region.
I've only previously run campaigns in Karrnath and Sharn so its going to be very different and im not sure quite how to make it work.
Regards...
I think that the player character selection in term of race, place of origin can make a big impact on such a campaign (allot more then it does in a Khorvairan or Xen'drik set campaign). There is the path of inspiration racial hierarchy and the general bias of the Nulakeshi to nonhumans (which in Nulakesh extends to shifters too) which going to dominate any PC-NPC interaction in the campaign.
It doesn't necessarily mean you have to limit the player selection: you can be a dragonmarked house Cannith heir hiding in the forest from the Harmonious Shield soldiers after escaping captivity in a mind-seeded forgehold aided by a human-Elan psion which begin to doubt his devotion to the Inspired found by a Phiarlan elf on an espionage mission with his invisible airship sent to locate the forgehold. a Tiefling wizard member of the Heirs of Ohr Kaluun seeking to prove himself to his superiors by stealing the forgehold secrets (thank Hellcow for the mind-seeded forgehold idea btw).
It doesn't necessarily mean you have to limit the player selection: you can be a dragonmarked house Cannith heir hiding in the forest from the Harmonious Shield soldiers after escaping captivity in a mind-seeded forgehold aided by a human-Elan psion which begin to doubt his devotion to the Inspired found by a Phiarlan elf on an espionage mission with his invisible airship sent to locate the forgehold.
You could, but let's face it - haven't we all seen that story a few too many times?
It doesn't necessarily mean you have to limit the player selection: you can be a dragonmarked house Cannith heir hiding in the forest from the Harmonious Shield soldiers after escaping captivity in a mind-seeded forgehold aided by a human-Elan psion which begin to doubt his devotion to the Inspired found by a Phiarlan elf on an espionage mission with his invisible airship sent to locate the forgehold.
You could, but let's face it - haven't we all seen that story a few too many times?
I haven't lol ! It does sound like it could be fun !
I do own Secrets of Sarlona and i was looking through at the suggested PC races. There are a lot that have not yet been converted over to 4ed - anyone know if there are any plans to do so ?
While I don't recall if it was stated in the EPG or not, what we'd originally discussed when working on it was that "Goliath" is just another name for Eneko... so you can use Goliath stats for the Eneko.
Hi Hellcow - thanks for advice. I also thought that Goliath could also be used for Half Giants.
Im kind of hoping that WOTC has some plans somewhere (probably in Dragon) to release all the races from the 3.4 Psionics Handbook e.g. Dromites etc.
sorry, what?
:P
There are some pretty awesome internal conflicts in Sarlona. Sounds like a hell of a fun campaign.
While I don't recall if it was stated in the EPG or not, what we'd originally discussed when working on it was that "Goliath" is just another name for Eneko... so you can use Goliath stats for the Eneko.
With Dark Sun merging the Goliath with Half-Giants, it seems to me that it would be easiest to do the same with the Goliath in Eberron. Eneko might be represented by Heritage Feats for the Goliath, if someone still wanted to play one.
I'd suggest something like this:
Eneko Bow Training
Prerequisite: Goliath Race
You gain proficiency with the short bow and long bow, and you get a +2 feat bonus to damage with bows.
Eneko Bow Training
Prerequisite: Goliath Race
You gain proficiency with the short bow and long bow, and you get a +2 feat bonus to damage with bows.
Given that Goliaths don't make ideal ranged rangers (due to the lack of a Dex bonus), I'd probably be willing to make it "proficiency with all bows" and the +2 feat bonus to damage... so you get to use a Greatbow and hit hard with it, but you're not as accurate as the elf. But that's just what I'd do in my campaign... not necessarily what's balanced. If I did limit it to military bows, I'd probably make the feat bonus scale with level (like Goliath Greatweapon Prowess).