JonestheSpy
2009-08-10, 02:28 PM
Hey folks,
I'm starting to prepare a new campaign set in Un Lun Dun, China Meiville's twisted morrior version of London. It's a lot like Gaimen's Neverwhere for folks unfamilair with Mieville's work (I recommend you fix that asap, btw), but a LOT weirder - more it's own alternate dimaension than a city-within-a-city. i'll be incorporating elements of both works plus whatever other interesting thing that seems to fit.
I'll be using 3.5 rules with a bit of this and that from the supplement books - definietely nothing that's too far outside of Core (though players can chhose psionic classes if they want), and even though it's present day the modern elements won't be that big a part of it.
One thing that I think will be fun is that players can choose to play almost any race they can imagine, as long as it's no more than 2nd level equivalent starting out, and it can pass for human if doing the ol big-coat-and-hat trick. One character in Mieville's book is named Skool and moves around in an old-fashioned deep-water diving suit. We later find out that the suit itself is filled with water, and Skool is actually a bunch of different fish who live inside and manipulate the suit to get around on land...
If you've got an inspiration for an adventure, creature, location, whatever, I'd love to hear it.
I'm starting to prepare a new campaign set in Un Lun Dun, China Meiville's twisted morrior version of London. It's a lot like Gaimen's Neverwhere for folks unfamilair with Mieville's work (I recommend you fix that asap, btw), but a LOT weirder - more it's own alternate dimaension than a city-within-a-city. i'll be incorporating elements of both works plus whatever other interesting thing that seems to fit.
I'll be using 3.5 rules with a bit of this and that from the supplement books - definietely nothing that's too far outside of Core (though players can chhose psionic classes if they want), and even though it's present day the modern elements won't be that big a part of it.
One thing that I think will be fun is that players can choose to play almost any race they can imagine, as long as it's no more than 2nd level equivalent starting out, and it can pass for human if doing the ol big-coat-and-hat trick. One character in Mieville's book is named Skool and moves around in an old-fashioned deep-water diving suit. We later find out that the suit itself is filled with water, and Skool is actually a bunch of different fish who live inside and manipulate the suit to get around on land...
If you've got an inspiration for an adventure, creature, location, whatever, I'd love to hear it.