Creating An Arcanum D&D Campaign

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  1. Spiffy

    Spiffy Member

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    I've started an Arcanum D&D campaign which takes place in the Age of Legends. I'm kind of a noob at DMing and stuff, so does anyone have any advice? (please don't say stuff like "give up" :roll: )

    Thank you! :)
     
  2. Dark Elf

    Dark Elf Administrator Staff Member

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    Cool! :)

    PnP roleplaying can be great fun if you're in the right group! I'm sure you'll handle the whole DMing part but... how will you deal with the magick/technology dichotomy? Or are you scrapping the aptitude system altogether?

    I take it you're using D&D 3.5?
     
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    Yes, I am using 3.5. And I think I'm probably scrapping the aptitute system :/
     
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    Damnn... I'm sorry, but I don't have the patience to read that, haha
     
  6. Jason Leeds

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    The website I linked in my profile has lots of interesting reading for making steampunk P&P games. Maybe GURPS Age of Napoleon and GURPS Fantasy can add something too(as it's not easy to find rulebooks with both magick and technology). D&D is too medieval fantasy and combat-focused to work properly for a Setting like Arcanum in my opinion, because that is what it was made for in the first place.
     
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    Welcome to the forum, Jason!

    I started to post a link for a steampunk manual but it's already at the website.
    There was another one I'd seen at Rapidshare but damned if I can remember the name of it.
     
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    The pdf didnt work for me, it downloaded as a scrambled html file. Thats a cool website jason. what did you google to find it?
     
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    bah, i got this file for some reason:
    GURPS_-_Steampunk.pdf.html

    and when i read it in text editor it looks like a rapidshare html? ill try with a different DLer and report back

    EDIT:
    Alright, it was an issue with DownTHEMall, i have it now, great pdf!

    Thanks rroyo
     
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    Then give up.
     
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