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Post by gloriousbattle on Dec 3, 2009 17:42:33 GMT -6
Edgar Rice Burroughs D&D?
Anybody ever done Barsoom, Amtor, Pellucidar, or just Tarzan's jungle kingdom as a D&D supplement, or maybe just fiddled with some rules for them?
Regards
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Post by Finarvyn on Dec 3, 2009 18:00:54 GMT -6
There are some suggestions and ideas for this in the Warriors of Mars section, so I'm moving it there. Doc had a game going for a while and made some wonderful posts about this.
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Post by bluskreem on Dec 3, 2009 22:24:11 GMT -6
I am still a little surprised that I have never heard of a Tarzan setting yet. As a kid I loved everything Tarzan related, I know I can't be the only one in the hobby. There is plenty of material for a setting. Tarzan is the quintessential wandering adventurer. Exploring strange and exotic lands, and punishing the unjust.
If Tarzan's Africa isn't your tastes Buroughs's Pellucidar (hollow earth) is pretty much tailor made for a D&D. It would make a great supplement Supplement VI (hint hint.)
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Post by Finarvyn on Dec 3, 2009 22:50:41 GMT -6
I think that "all things Burroughs" would indeed make a fun supplement.
Even though the actual locations change, ERB's basic style of story is somewhat similar for all of his settings and I suspect there would easily be enough material to fill up quite a few pages. (There are something like 20 Tarzan books, 11 Mars books, I think 5 Venus books, and the list goes on....)
I'd be interested in seeing this as well! :-)
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Post by thorswulf on Dec 3, 2009 23:42:45 GMT -6
I seem to remember seeing something about Pellucidar that Holmes was going to run in an old Dragon/GenCon schedule.
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Post by grodog on Dec 6, 2009 23:08:49 GMT -6
I seem to remember seeing something about Pellucidar that Holmes was going to run in an old Dragon/GenCon schedule. JEH wrote at least one Pellucidar novel, and I think some stories too. Zhowar would know  |
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Post by Falconer on Dec 6, 2009 23:46:09 GMT -6
Just thought I’d throw this out there. Probably you all already know this and it’s obvious, but maybe not. Burroughs’s novels are filled with frequent crossovers between each other. So to do a “setting book” which covers all four major series as well as some of the other books which are set in the “present” of Burroughs’s world would make a lot of sense, and give the PCs quite an exciting universe to explore!
Regarding Holmes, the Wikipedia article has a good bibliography. Regards.
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Post by gloriousbattle on Dec 7, 2009 16:46:41 GMT -6
Just thought I’d throw this out there. Probably you all already know this and it’s obvious, but maybe not. Burroughs’s novels are filled with frequent crossovers between each other. So to do a “setting book” which covers all four major series as well as some of the other books which are set in the “present” of Burroughs’s world would make a lot of sense, and give the PCs quite an exciting universe to explore! Regarding Holmes, the Wikipedia article has a good bibliography. Regards. AMEN! |
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Post by Geiger on Dec 8, 2009 21:27:47 GMT -6
If you threw every Burroughs book in a boiling cauldron and let it simmer for a while, what common elements would arise to the top?
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Post by gloriousbattle on Dec 15, 2009 17:36:57 GMT -6
If you threw every Burroughs book in a boiling cauldron and let it simmer for a while, what common elements would arise to the top? ;D This one: You suddenly find yourself in some forgotten / unknown universe, where some extremely hot nearly naked chick is about to be raped / eaten / murdered by some hideous...thing. You manfully tear the thing apart with your bare hands only to find out that in so doing you committed some irreparable insult to said lady's barbaric honor, and now you have to do something REALLY crazy to redeem yourself. |
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