EdOWar
Level 5 Thaumaturgist
Posts: 315
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Post by EdOWar on Dec 1, 2011 19:59:15 GMT -6
Came across this yesterday as I was reorganizing my game files. It's notes for a Ruins & Ronin science-fantasy campaign I wrote up a couple of years ago, drawing from Legend of the Five Rings and Rokugan 2020, with a bit of Planet Algol and a dash of Big Trouble in Little China. I thought maybe someone could find parts of it useful, or at least entertaining. Enjoy. www.mediafire.com/?acg33o378098072 |
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Post by zarathustra on Dec 1, 2011 20:33:08 GMT -6
Actually I am planning an "east meets apocalypse" LL campaign now, inspired by Coleridge's Xanadu meeting Carcosa. This sounds very helpful, ta.
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Post by kesher on Dec 1, 2011 23:51:57 GMT -6
Actually I am planning an "east meets apocalypse" LL campaign now, inspired by Coleridge's Xanadu meeting Carcosa. This sounds very helpful, ta. Um, care to expand on this a bit? Please? |
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Post by zarathustra on Dec 2, 2011 0:19:37 GMT -6
Actually I am planning an "east meets apocalypse" LL campaign now, inspired by Coleridge's Xanadu meeting Carcosa. This sounds very helpful, ta. Um, care to expand on this a bit? Please? Well I was in the embryonic stages of formulating my next campaign & I wanted to do something very different from my last one (Carolingian based). Coleridge's Kubla Khan kept rattling around my head. From that I got the idea of an oriental themed post apocalyptic setting with Yogsothothery undetones (the "demon lover" , "caverns measureless to man" & all that). So I thought the little story of Xanadu within it was a good enough place to start a history. Then i heard around the webs that Carcosa was a post apocalyptic setting & looked into it. I stole the mankind as created slaves idea & decided that I would use the Oards (from TSR CM6) as the evil creators of man (as slaves) who roused the Old Ones with their warp drives & whatnot. The city of Xanadu has been rebuilt & some Tech left behind in ruins out in the Wastelands so some men even worship the "Great Creators". The Oards meanwhile are hiding out in their Entropy Bubble for the next 1000 years or so until all this Cthulhu nonsense dies down. Unless of course some fool disturbs them. My conversion of the LL rules to eastern flavour is pretty quick & simple (will post on it if you are interested, not sure if you wanted the background or the crunch sorry). No one (almost) knows anything about the world outside anymore, xanadu has become degenerate & inward looking. So if the PC's head out looking for something less awful to live in, carcosa lies one way across the desert wastes & my own twisted mad max orient lies the other. |
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Post by mgtremaine on Dec 3, 2011 16:36:04 GMT -6
I like it  . I have often told anyone willing to listen that Coleridge's Kubla Khan is the ultimate fantasy story, seriously it's all in there. {Ok maybe there is no magic sword but he covers most of the required images  } -Mike |
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Post by zarathustra on Dec 3, 2011 18:32:05 GMT -6
I agree. This guy-
"His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed
And drunk the milk of Paradise."
is going to make an appearance somewhere but I'm still not sure how yet.
I am thinking a great pool of sentient goop (the "milk of paradise") that turns you into a crazy possessed slave or something.
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. I have often told anyone willing to listen that Coleridge's Kubla Khan is the ultimate fantasy story, seriously it's all in there. {Ok maybe there is no magic sword but he covers most of the required images 
}