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Savage Tide: d20 Past conversion

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#1
redrobe
May 06, 2009 21:04:26 So, in my spare time, when not creating cities, NPCs, and adventures for my homebrew D&D world I have yet to run, or my Urban Arcana campaign, I've considered converting the Savage Tide AP to d20 Past. It will be set in the "Age of Adventure" setting, and will include most of the races and monsters from Urban Arcana. If anyone has had experience doing this, or running the STAP in general and would like to contribute suggestions, warnings, or other ideas, please feel free. My greatest concern if I ever get around to running this AP is what to do when the PCs need to travel to the Abyss. Should I find a suitable wrap-up point before that, or should I treat it like World's End or Davy Jones' Locker in Pirates and just go with it? Thanks in advance!
#2
redrobe
May 07, 2009 22:24:20 So, one of my first concerns is where to place Sasserine. I read a suggestion that Singapore could easily replace it, but I think that may be too exotic. I need a place that is both cosmopolitan and on the fringes of civilization. I'm perfectly willing to just place Sasserine on the coast of a particular country where it would fit in, but I would like suggestions of possible locales. As far as converting characters, I've taken the suggestion from Urban Arcana and run with it. I'll tac on 3 or 4 levels of an appropriate base class or classes to the recommended "modern" version of the class listed in the module (Barbarian=Thrasher, Fighter=Archaic Weaponsmaster or Soldier, Cleric=Acolyte, Druid=Shaman, etc). I'll be using the Renaissance firearms from the DMG in place of those listed in d20 Past.
#3
rhialto
May 08, 2009 9:04:39 Sasserine could be Casablanca during WW2, Beirut during the 60s and 70s, modern Rio de Janeiro, Sydney, or Honolulu.
#4
redrobe
May 08, 2009 23:44:14 Casablanca caught my eye, but it would need to be during the late 17th and early to mid 18th century. You know, classic piratey times. Sydney seems promising, too. I'm also looking at Port Royal, Jamaica. Sasserine may just be added on as a competing city to any one of these already mentioned. It could be that the whole city was brought over through Shadow some time in the past. I tried this once in my Urban Arcana style game with the dungeon from the 3.0 adventure "Forge of Fury." More than just creatures can be brought over.

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#1 redrobe May 06, 2009 21:04:26	So, in my spare time, when not creating cities, NPCs, and adventures for my homebrew D&D world I have yet to run, or my Urban Arcana campaign, I've considered converting the Savage Tide AP to d20 Past. It will be set in the "Age of Adventure" setting, and will include most of the races and monsters from Urban Arcana. If anyone has had experience doing this, or running the STAP in general and would like to contribute suggestions, warnings, or other ideas, please feel free. My greatest concern if I ever get around to running this AP is what to do when the PCs need to travel to the Abyss. Should I find a suitable wrap-up point before that, or should I treat it like World's End or Davy Jones' Locker in Pirates and just go with it? Thanks in advance!
#2 redrobe May 07, 2009 22:24:20	So, one of my first concerns is where to place Sasserine. I read a suggestion that Singapore could easily replace it, but I think that may be too exotic. I need a place that is both cosmopolitan and on the fringes of civilization. I'm perfectly willing to just place Sasserine on the coast of a particular country where it would fit in, but I would like suggestions of possible locales. As far as converting characters, I've taken the suggestion from Urban Arcana and run with it. I'll tac on 3 or 4 levels of an appropriate base class or classes to the recommended "modern" version of the class listed in the module (Barbarian=Thrasher, Fighter=Archaic Weaponsmaster or Soldier, Cleric=Acolyte, Druid=Shaman, etc). I'll be using the Renaissance firearms from the DMG in place of those listed in d20 Past.
#3 rhialto May 08, 2009 9:04:39	Sasserine could be Casablanca during WW2, Beirut during the 60s and 70s, modern Rio de Janeiro, Sydney, or Honolulu.
#4 redrobe May 08, 2009 23:44:14	Casablanca caught my eye, but it would need to be during the late 17th and early to mid 18th century. You know, classic piratey times. Sydney seems promising, too. I'm also looking at Port Royal, Jamaica. Sasserine may just be added on as a competing city to any one of these already mentioned. It could be that the whole city was brought over through Shadow some time in the past. I tried this once in my Urban Arcana style game with the dungeon from the 3.0 adventure "Forge of Fury." More than just creatures can be brought over.