Thread 713883936

Where are we dropping?

>>713883936 (OP)
poor brony lol

>>713883936 (OP)
I have no idea what goes on in most of it.

>>713884835
Suffering mostly

>>713884835
mostly nothing. everything that happens - happens on this coastline of sea of swords.

>>713885330
Imagine how miserable the average level 3 mageoid is in Thay.

What happens here?

Worst setting ever, this one is much better

>>713885667
literally the same thing but slightly worse

>>713883936 (OP)
lorebros, comfiest and least comfiest place on this map?

>>713883936 (OP)
I don’t see your mom house on there lol

>>713885693
thay is zombie serfdom/slavery kingdom so pretty shit on average, lurien is halfling hobbit land if thats chill for you.

>>713885658
caravans, bandits, and smelly orcs

Daggerford sounds like a based place. What can you tell me about that?

>>713885974
>east looks like hell
>north has too much bullshit going on
>south has a bay of dancing rapists
>all the baldur's gate games show how much of a constant mosh pit the sword coast is
I guess I fuck off to one of the islands

>>713883936 (OP)
Is Faerun this setting where you technically have Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights in the same universe, but practically they are completely different things separate from each other?

>>713883936 (OP)
AY YO WHERE DA MONSTER WOMEN AT

>>713885693
Depends on who you are, I can imagine underdark being quite comfy for drow woman.

>>713883936 (OP)
Anything but the sword coast, there are infinitely more interesting places than the sword coast.

>>713886525
yes
although they do mention eachother

>>713886525
Yes, they’re neighbouring city states, BG is considered the Detroit of the area.

>>713883936 (OP)
>be me
>want to DM a game
>need to read through 3+ books to learn all about the lore of the location adventure is set in
>jump cut to game night
>players didn't read Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
>nor PHB
>instead they get in bar fights
>take a loan not intending to pay off
>they start a business
>no session 2
Faerûn? Never again.

>>713885667
Man I wish there would be a mega game with your Mythic Character from WOTR just exploring the world. No world ending nonsense just exploration while being overpowered.

>>713883936 (OP)
Calimport

>>713886198
How smelly are the orcs in question?
Do dnd orcs sweat?

>>713883936 (OP)
>The shining plains is just a copy of the map of Mordor
DnD nerds deserved to be bullied

>>713885693
Best: Cormyr
Worst: Ivewind Dale
>>713888023
You'd have to use AI for that, but it's 100% doable now... As long as you don't mind it being text-only.

>>713888321
That's Forgotten Realms. There are older, better settings.

>>713883936 (OP)
>vaasa

>>713888305
these green niggas MUSKY

>>713883936 (OP)
>Yo, so i was on my way from Red-Dancer, passed by Elvenslut and the Wailing Dwarf on my way to The Bridge of Fallen Men and my final destination, Big Bone Keep
Things Dragon Coast denizens say with zero awareness.

>>713883936 (OP)
Is the Sword Coast/Faerun considered boring because its generic, or is it more that its setting is such a staple of the genre and so many other fantasy setting ape it that it becomes boring by association instead?

>>713889082
The latter, BG3 tried to change things up a bit by making the city early renaissance instead of a medieval city but it still falls flat and feels incredibly boring, coupled with the generic fantasy monsters.

>>713888452
If this was such a good setting then why didn’t ever get popular

>>713885658
Giant ghost rhino.

>>713887556
>players engage with the world and get invested in it by starting their own business
>"NOOOO WHY AREN'T THEY FOLLOWING MY HECKIN RAILROAD, I'M TAKING MY BALL AND GOING HOME!!!"

>>713883936 (OP)
A pit of big tiddy drider mommies. I will live gloriously for that short moment.

>>713885693
>Comfiest
Cormyr is Knightlandia with a mild order of state police.
>Least Comfy
Thay as a non-mage.

I’m going off the assumption “comfy” does not mean “good” and is simply a quality of, “how happy am I living here?” And it’s still Cormyr, which was the focus of old-school books and is basically a Ren Fair.

>>713889553
The vast majority of fantasy settings are early modern, so Baldur’s feel isn’t that terrible. The moment you move out of feudalism and present intense urbanization is the moment it’s no longer medieval.

>>713890279
>He thinks sky pirates are a good premise for a campaign
Kek

>>713890460
read this as "milf order of state police" at first

>>713883936 (OP)
I think Faerun is the worst setting I've ever touched. It's so bad it's kinda amazing.

Golarion is so bad I set my Burnt Offerings campaign in the Old World of Warhammer Fantasy instead. Sandpoint? More like Sandspitze.

>>713883936 (OP)
Possibly the most dogshit setting ever created, as for some reason this shit became the standard in everyone's fantasy
This world is literally more fucking dangerous than warhammer fantasy everywhere you go and yet entire kingdoms full of jobbers exist to be mulched into plot devices at the drop of a hat. The scale of carnage and the proximity to major city centers is absurd, the sword coast should be starving with the amount of desolation happening on the regular

Entire fucking dimensions can just pop in to a city, better hope the lvl 19 giga wizard cares enough because he is the only one who can do anything, this includes other dimensions and local divinity

>>713890839
Nah, Golarion is still worse as far as kitchen sink settings go, and PF 2.0 made it far more boring by gutting anything that WotC could conceivably sue over.

Where we droppin', boys?

>>713891397
Prince of Nothing mogs

>>713890932
I'd argue that Golarion can never be great because, try as they may (and they have tried), they can never fully tie together the kitchensink setting they have created with a consistent theme. But I wouldn't call it the worst either, exactly because there are so many places inside that setting that allow you to tailor a campaign however you like.

Want gothic shit? Try Ustalav.
Want pirate/swashbucking shit? Try The Shackles
Want ancient Egypt shit? Try Osirion.
Want Asian shit? Try Tian Xia (for China) and Minkai (for Japan).
And the list goes on.

It's flexible for a DM that doesn't want the colossal work of homebrewing an entire region and its background.

>>713891397
What the fuck is going on with the ocean currents and climates in this world?

>>713891580
I like both!

Where we dropping bros

>>713883936 (OP)
>Tfw no original Thief game set in Waterdeep, stealing sweet staves from faggot mary sue's like elminster or taking the infinite staircase to sigil and stealing the lady of pain's mask.

>>713892192
kitty city

>>713890646
Anything can be a good premise for a campaign if the DM isn't a soulless lobotomized dumb fuck.

>>713891742
Ascendants and warrens

Let me guess, you need more?

where are the fewest fags and trannies on Faerun?

>>713892985
Luskan

>>713888452
Dark sun is the most overrated piece of trash there is

>>713883936 (OP)
Cloakwood Forrest

>>713892985
in 1998

>>713893784
where not when

>>713891217
Yeah warhammer fantasy may be brutal but is very limited in the way magic or religion works, there’s never anything world ending or nation destroying except in very specific events also you’d have to actively seek trouble to get it.

>>713894032
And yet, the world ended, in an extremely humiliating and ignoble fashion, replaced with something infinitely gayer

>>713894117
The world ended when it had to end, besides it was a dead setting before TWW

>>713890839
What are the best settings then?

>>713894306
Ashes of Erebus mod for Civ4.

>>713883936 (OP)
Most kino place for a CRPG?

>>713894593
The Holy Roman Empire.

>>713894668
>holy roman empire during the 30 years war
>supernatural shit exist
Would play the shit out of it

>>713889082
To me it's boring because everything's already been done there and there's no progress. The plot evolved for 100 years by now and the setting is basically the same. I prefer systems where every edition feels different, like CP. 2013? Cyberpunk, but very light, like in TMNT. 2020? Full future. RED? Post-Apocalyptic. 2077? Sci-Fi.
>>713890724
Gaddafi did this IRL.
>>713894306
Planescape, Spelljammer.
>>713894668
God, I hate historical magic realism.

>>713883936 (OP)
Is the ck2 mod good?

A shame that there’ll never be a good game in this setting

only trve kniggas will follow me into liberating olde Englande from the brown heathen devils so helpe me Godde

Where we dropping boys?

>>713895327
>Real world, drawn by American, from memory
Disgusting.
>>713895467
>Real world, except magic exists
I am puke.
>>713895540
The only good map ITT. The Village of Hommlet, of course.

>>713895635
>Brownoid seethes about white people myth and history

Yep checks out

>>713883936 (OP)
Im down for Halruaa
>>713885667
Give me some Cheliax Kino
>>713894593
Dwendalian Empire
>>713895540
The Great Kingdom

>>713883936 (OP)
AHHHHHH Now THIS is Dungeons and Dragons.

>>713883936 (OP)
fixed

>>713895215
I like how every Essos city described by George is like a mystical place full of wonder and something out of a mythology book, then when it’s reached that point it’s just Asians and Asian culture and the descriptions were untrustworthy peasant talk. Pick related is how artists depicted where Daenerys is right now before the actual thing was confirmed by George.

>>713883936 (OP)
Unther, we need more Mesopotamian fantasy.

do u guys like my map :3

>>713883936 (OP)
we're dropping in DHIRIM BOYS LETS GOOOO

>>713895968
What happens in Baldur and where is his gate. Also why is the land itself wise

>it's another fantasy world map that's just europe episode
at least put the ocean on the east or something
god

>>713895968
>ukrondia
ukron deez nuts
do they speak polish there

>>713895467
>chops down all ur trees
enjoy the sheep fields, longshanks

take me back

>>713885667
Drives me nuts that we still know shit about Casmaron, Arkadia or Sarusan

>>713896045
>What happens in Baldur
Arcanophobic early-industrial society that throws spellcasters, slavery abolitionists and anti-royalists in front of firing squads day after day to the cheers of the plebs.

>Where is his gate
The capital is Grimgate (I made this map 10 years ago before)

>>713896150
They are Orcs so I'll let you decide the answer

>>713894593
strangereal

>>713896079
>can't handle kino

>>713895871
Being an ASOIAF fan must be pure suffering. Thank God I only read finished series.
>>713895968
>Formen
Where are Managyr, Enj'Neer, Sur-Vehior, Finishur, the Bull-Dozers, Ex Cavatoris and Craine?

>>713896281
>orcs
so they speak cockney english like a bunch o gits, bruv?

>>713895215
>mysterios
>literally a skull
>austrios
>kek it's just australia
made by a goddamn six year old. thanks GRRM

>>713896281
Why do they hate spellcasters. Sounds like they abandon a powerful resource that all their rivals are going to use against them inevitably.

>>713896393
>austrios
but what's their tax policy?
>>713896393
this is just Calradia

>we will never get a new vidya in german autism kino: The Setting
Im tired of the old boomer games. Why must we suffer so

>>713896763
>that desert
I call bullshit

>>713896393
Warhammer shit doesn’t make any sense, you got an advanced Empire with proto-tanks and battery guns and it’s neighbour is a bunch of inbred knights and peasant feudal kingdom, there’s no reason Bretonnia wasn’t annexed ages ago by the Empire.

>>713896487
>Why do they hate spellcasters
Propaganda spewed by nobles and the royal family who all have their own court sorcerers. The idea being they took magic from the commoners and will quickly cut down anyone who practices it so they're the only people who control it. Means in the event of an actual revolution they're the only ones with magic and one mage is worth a thousand peasants with pitchforks.

Baldur is also one of the more technologically advanced societies, owing to the fact that other kingdoms use magic to get by and don't need to rely on technology. So in a war they have that edge as well.

>>713883936 (OP)
>90s bad cgi map shortcuts but kino-est settings

>>713883936 (OP)
Ok /v/, important question. Would you rather have
>map with highly distinct biomes that have no overlap, enemies are unique between areas with few exceptions that are largely unchanged besides a recolor. Transitions between biomes are physical divides like rivers, mountains, and forests
>more biomes but they're more similar, but both the fauna and the NPCs are much more distinct between regions. Transitions between biomes are gradual and difficult to notice

you must choose

>>713896920
>there’s no reason Bretonnia wasn’t annexed ages ago by the Empire.
Did you forget the direct protection of a literal godess that blesses their knights with supernatural powers and makes them ubermensch?

>>713896839
There’s a lore reason for a desert to exist in that area

>>713897097
It's where the Factorio engineer landed

*blocks your path*

>>713888452
I've always like Ravenloft but due to its nature there aren't any good maps showing the full extent of the setting

>>713897071
oh shit I fucked up the second one, I meant to say
>larger variation of enemies and variants but their geographic distributions are also much larger

>>713897071
Highly distinct with no overlap. Recycling features mostly sucks.
Even in games with pre-gen like Valheim or 7D2D, it's more interesting to see two radically different biomes next to each other which produces interesting features and even fauna interactions.

>>713897085
That goddess is the reason they are technologically and socially inferior, she doesn’t want the wood elves to get stomped by a human kingdom.

ENTER

>>713897071
>map with highly distinct biomes that have no overlap, enemies are unique between areas with few exceptions that are largely unchanged besides a recolor.
Dragon Age Origins did this and it was kino

>>713897421
2027 HAMMERFELL WE'RE SO BACK BAYBEE

>>713897418
>>713897418
technological progress is gay shit, so good on the godess. Also her protection did work out till the very end

>>713897421
Honestly the best choice right here, good games, good lore and a shit ton of pussy variety where you don’t have to worry about your kid being a halfbreed since they’ll always be the race of the mother.

>>713896847
>>713896968
>>713897235
Isn't this just Lovecraft's Dream Lands?
>>713897071
second. no question.
>>713897421
Holy kino! Too bad its tabletop is soulless slop: https://uestrpg.com/

>>713897350
>>713897443
I kind of agree but it's ultrakino if the regions have their own transitionary biomes with a few exceptions

Yeah we got a lot of Fucking jealous Japs here in this Fucking thread! I mean no other setting has the lore or the worldbuilding that you will find here. There is a reason it was always the most popular BY FAR NOT EVEN FUCKING CLOSE campaign setting. And no matter how much Fucking haters and haterade you try to bring its way, there is nothing you can do to Fucking change that!

Any love for Midgard?

what happens outside of Tamriel

yep, Krynn Kino

>>713897653
Well, I'll give the exception I liked best which was 90's PnP Planescape. I can't remember all the details correctly but it went like: Positive energy plane adjacent to Fire: Plasma
Negative energy plane adjacent to Water: Salt
Negative Energy plane adjacent to Earth: Dust

A bit of an exception, divorced from regular rules of biology and nature, but the ideas for cosmology became very interesting to me that way. I wanted to adapt it to Ravenloft better to where every element in the world was affected by Negative energy somehow. I think it is somewhat like this to begin with but maybe they've gotten away from it with the unpopularity of Planescape/dominance of FR. Too bad there was so much of this arrested development in world building it feels like due to one commercial reason or another.

>>713883936 (OP)
Here

>so many interesting settings
>few will ever see a vidya made for them
its not fair bros

>>713883936 (OP)
DnD has been around for 50 years and 95% of the lore comes from Neverwinter Nights and Baldur's Gate. Pretty much every point on this map has 0 lore behind it.

Tabletop RPGs should have gone the way of the dodo the millisecond video games were invented. The settings are cool but clearly shine far better in video game form. The mechanics are absolutely abysmal. Needing to roll 15 different dice 100 times just for a character to take a fucking step. Combat and situations that are supposed to be visceral and exciting boiled down to dice rolls and sterile mathematics. Talking in silly accents and acting like a complete theatre kid sperg at table with other theatre kid spergs. It's the most embarrassing thing in the world. Fundamentally there is no experience one could have with Vampire the Masquerade on the tabletop that would be as good as playing Bloodlines. Same is true for Forgotten Realms and BG2, Planescape with Torment, etc.

I'm not playing your completely unrealistic map.

>>713895968
Learn how rivers work.

>>713898715
Like literally all other things that happen outside of the main continent, eg. WoW, Faerun, Golarion, WFB.

Either Japan or China that’s literally it.

>>713885667
what's the property tax like here on beach front property?

>>713885667
I want to explore Geb. It's such a stupid name that it makes me smile, the fact that it's named after a dude called Geb too makes it even better.

>>713900671
nothing, that's a pirate kingdom

>>713894668
game is darklands 1992

>>713885667
>>713896254
i honestly prefer faerun, faerun, despite being designed as a "generic fantasy" template setting has its own quirks, for example the geography is unique, while golarian is basically earth but a bit different but not that much

>>713883936 (OP)
skyrm

>>713897421
>Daggerfall not on the Illiac Bay
FUCK that will always mess with me

How much of BG1-3 took place across this area?

>>713898528
peak

>>713903124
Just close in on Baldur's Gate until you see the border with Amn. That's about the farthest these games went. These games were quality over quantity. Well, until Act 3 of BG3 that is. Still, they cut off half the city map and Minthara pregnancy so they could release the game before the height of vacation season.

>>713903084
It's a mistake copied from Arena when a UI button would've covered Daggerfall in its proper position on the Iliac Bay (same as TES 2), so they moved Daggerfall out of the way to its now canon position.

>>713898715
>podomaic ocean
>Bethesda maryland borders the potomac river

TODD

>>713903671
>>713898715
also
>the abecean sea
>the A-B-C SEA???

c'mon todd

>>713900671
>murdergod assassin island
>flooded swampland filled with poorfags and agressive lizardmen
>pirate county
i dont think that tax will be your main concern

>>713898715
According to Bethesda, nothing of importance.

since we're posting maps

is this is good setting?

>>713904271
the original lore, maybe

let me guess, you NEED more?

>>713903124
BG1 takes place from Baldur's Gate, down to Candlekeep, and slightly south. Includes a scant few surrounding areas.
BG2 takes place further south in Athkatla, Amn, and the area surrounding it.
BG3 is back to Baldur's Gate and essentially a very small stretch along the river Chionthar.

>>713905845
>and slightly south
we reach nashkel, that is quite south of candlekeep, not just slightly
>BG2 takes place further south in Athkatla, Amn, and the area surrounding it.
and in the dlc we go even further south

>>713907952
Fair. I couldn't remember how far south we went in BG1 and how it relates to the general geography.
We hit up the forests of Tethyr and even the Underdark in BG2, but no reason to mention too much. I remember Saradush from ToB but not much around that.

>>713898715
atmora and aldmeris are concepts and yokuda with akavir are previous and next calpas

>>713908553
yeah, whatever, dont care. I want to go there and adventure

>>713908519
we go even further south in ToB, Amkethran is in northern calimshan

>>713908718
k
go collect 50 mudcrab anuses for that radiant quest then

>>713908759
Amkethran is in Amn; Saradush is northern Calimshan.

>>713908876
Project Akavir is coming soon. As soon as Tamriel is complete. In only 15 years, we'll be able to gather 50 bananas for the Tang Mo.

>>713908924
Saradush is in Tethyr, Amkethran is where you meet the monk bhaalspawn, and is located in northern calimshan

>>713909092
Yeah good call; had my cities mixed up.

>>713895783
>>713895868
Kinda sad that this is the case. I'd love a D&D game set somewhere else in Faerun, even if it was done by the Solasta devs.

>>713895783
we've never even seen a game set in waterdeep

Are there any good D&D podcasts/shows that aren't critical role and set in Faerun? The only ones I could find just rip straight from an adventure book.