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[jeoreofag]

What's up everyone, I'm new to the forum and just wanted to say hey. Hopefully I posted this in the right section!

[Aldrin]

State your case. Edition, online or irl? :P

[AndrewTall]

Hail and well met :)

We're mostly friendly, and have a wiki full of stuff to read if you don't want to talk to us anyway (feel free to add to it).

[Lawgiver]

Welcome aboard!

[Pags]

Hello everyone, newly registered here myself.

Thank you to the administrators and minds who have put together and maintained this great resource for a lost gem of a game.

I am well into running a game that is a rough mash of 3 different systems, but birthright is the setting, and have not had so much fun running a game in a while :)

So, just adding to the new people saying hello. :D

[Sorontar]

Welcome. Which systems are mashed? Are you using the original publications as source material for adventures or are you just playing at the Domain level?

[Rey]

i joined a long time ago, can't recall when though :s...

EDIT: lol, you've got it. Anyway, welcome.

[Banesfinger]

Hi, I'm new here too.

I have the TSR Birthright boxed set. I would like play the game with an updated rule set (4e ? ) or perhaps another system.

I have never played the Gorgon's Alliance (but would like to, if only it was commercially available and usable on a modern O.S.).

I do have one question for the forum:

During our Birthright campaign in the 90's, we had lots of players, and so many NPC kingdoms, it was a paper-work nightmare to track everything. I remember hearing about Gorgon's Alliance and thinking: "I wonder if the DM could use that as a tool to help track all this domain info?"

Has anyone ever used it this way?

[Erebus]

In the theme of the thread...

Hello all, I'm new too.

Long time D&D'r (20+ years). I got caught up in Dark Sun and Planescape and never really read much about Birthright until a couple of years ago.

I'm now sitting down to put together a campaign for a 4E game I'm going to be running, and I think I'm going to use Birthright as it seems to have exactly the feel I'm going for.

[Sorontar]

Welcome to Br.net. What aspects of Birthright give you the feel you are after? The bloodlines? The political powerplays and actions? The awnsheghlien?

Also, please tell us how you use it in 4th ed. As a community we are still trying to get our collective heads around how to get Birthright and 4th ed to work well together. Use the tags or search box to hunt for some of the suggestions.

[Erebus]

I haven't actually used it yet, and I hadn't exactly figured out how I was going to do it.

In the spirit of 4e though, I was thinking of playing it fast and loose. Though I do like the Chapter4: Bloodlines conversion on this site.


I really like a lot of the aspects of Birthright. I think because of: it's closer resemblance to historical times, the detail of the races, the regency rules, the bloodlines, and the background.

I'm coming to realize that Eberron and Birthright are very similar settings at least as far as political setups and situations go. One big Empire shattered into many small nations glancing back at past glories. Birthright though offers the players more opportunity to actually have an impact on a more gritty and visceral level.

[yoje82]

If anyone could help me please reply with the link, thnx

[Caelcormac]

Link?

Is this some sort of scam gone wrong? Where is the link?

[Sorontar]

I suspect that what you are after is a map of current Anuire, with all the major human kingdoms marked. You might find that http://www.birthright.net/brwiki/index.php/Image:AnuireCompleteV1_0.JPG helps.

When you say the 12 duchies, you might want to read http://www.birthright.net/brwiki/index.php?title=Twelve_Duchies . Some of the names and borders of the duchies have changed over the years.

Sorontar

[Thelandrin]

I'm currently running a 12 Duchies game, so I can see about posting the map in due course.

[lmnoq]

I am new to posting but lurked the wiki to flesh out parts of my 2nd edition game.

[Vicente]

Welcome! :)

[Benjamin]

Welcome to all newcomers.

There is an amazing wealth of information found at this site. I still find new things, and I've been around a while.

If you can't find it, ask. Some one may have something useful..

[Invoker47]

I've been lurking this site for a long time, and use it almost on a daily basis for planning my pnp game I have running. The one pain I have though is tracking realms and data, though I've got it handled decently now.

But I'm looking for a file or something that would list in one convenient location all the realms, holdings and such as they are in Ruins of Empire. Not sure if anyone has that who is around here, but figured I'd ask. Would help me with running NPC domains a lot easier.

[AndrewTall]

The sheet data won't agree to Ruins as the game is now in turn 68, but Green Knight has an awesome spreadsheet for tracking realms, holdings, etc which you could use as inspiration - he uses a different formulae to calculate law income and so on but reducing these down to brcs would be easy.

His site is: http://twilightpeaks.net/forum/index.php

look in the downloads section for the 'provinces and holdings' spreadsheet.

[Invoker47]

Thanks for the link, lots of interesting stuff there; that spreadsheet is insane. I don't even know where to begin with analyzing it, heh.

[AndrewTall]

It is pretty incredible - and the new domain turn sheet is on the awesome side as well.

RoE is not based on brcs though - its Bjorn's own work. The biggest change is that no income is gained for ruling a province per se, instead rulers gain wealth through law holdings, and to a degree from manor holdings. The next obvious change is that instead of trade routes there is a second type of guild holding 'trade'.

Other holdings get income based on the level of the province they are in with two modifiers 'prosperity' - how prosperous the land is this season, and the tax rate - how much the law holdings cream off basically.

The spreadsheet does all the math for income and RP caps, tracks grants, etc, and keeps a record of every province name, type, levels, prosperity, etc, etc.

The DO sheet does the same sort of thing, but for each domain.

[Vicente]

Agreed, those Excel sheets are impressive :) As most of the material in the website, kudos to everyone.