birthright campaign setting from dmsguild

The setting has divine magical 'bloodlines' from the old (dead) gods that allow the regents to rule Law, Guild, Temple, Source and Province/Land Holdings as a core concept. The AD&D 2nd Edition campaign setting is set in the world of Aebrynis on the continent of Cerilia which is ~very~ detailed at the ruling level. In the end what PCs who wanted to play these styles end up doing was playing Illusionists and rangers, instead of magicians and guilders respectively.Birthright is a larger scale system designed for interaction between multiple mature countries. No fireballs or even fly? Tough sell to a player who know they had to survive five levels with just a d4 hit die and a quarterstaff. Duel wielding while being squishy, wearing leather armor and not being very sneaky led to a PC that just couldn't function on a game mechanics level, same problem as the magician. It was like a sort of proto skill monkey, you saw in 3e without the functionality 3e brought to the table. Cool concept, that would end up as an NPC. It's hard to sell people on a rogue that isn't as effective at most thieves skills. The same can be said with the Guilders from the Brecht boxset. In the end if I wanted to see any magicians in my campaigns I had to make them myself and they ended up as NPC Sages, or conman-esque villains.

Though as someone who DM a handful of Birthright campaigns, in practice I've seen few players take any non-blooded characters at all, let alone purposely hobble their wizards with the class. Your point about the magician class is true, it is interesting for sure. Related subreddits - AD&DĭnDO5R - OSRs taking impressions from D&D 5E Message the mods if you have more to add. The Graverobber's Guide Coins and Scrolls Tenkar's Tavern Dyson's Dodecahedron the Tao of D&D Hack & Slash Hill Cantons Bat in the Attic Telecanter's Receding Rules Land of Nod Grognardia Beyond the Pale Gate Bernie the Flumph Roll For Initiative Podcast (AD&D1e) Thaco's Hammer Podcast (AD&D2e) Save or Die Podcast (Classic D&D) Chgowiz Monsters and Manuals Smoldering Wizard Goblin Punch Some of our favorite blogs - Links to Wisdom This is not a place to rant about how (your least favorite edition) sucks! In fact, I hope discussion arises about how later editions do things right, and how to incorporate them into OSR-styled games. Other Old School games (Traveller, Runequest, Tunnels & Trolls, et al) are of course open for discussion. It will primarily focus on D&D (LBB, 1st ed. This is a subreddit for news and discussion of Old School Renaissance topics.

Birthright campaign setting from dmsguild