Alternative Campaign

[Azrai]

Birthright is a great setting. but most gamers do also play alternative campaign settings. since birthright-players are a very special bunch it might me interesting to know which campaigns they like in addition to cerilia.

[Azrai]

Personally I prefer Kalamar and Dragonlance. Kalamar is very close to the birthright-setting and dragonlance is fantastic epic-fantasy.

[Ariadne]

My Favourite campaign (other than Birthright) is Dragonlance because of its very good literature.. The most I dislike are the Forgotten Realms! (You play a [for you] very high level caracter [10.th level or so]and you are still nothing...)

[blitzmacher]

If we're not playing BR, than we're playing in homegrown worlds. But my favorite RPG, even though it isn't D&D, and I haven't played it in years, is Runequest. IMHO it is has the best game mechanic system there is, it just had the same problem BR did, poor advertising.

[Lord Eldred]

Alternative Campaign? How could you play another campaign after being infected with the Birthright bug?

When not playing Birthright, I play Magic.

[Sellenus]

Homegrown usually...

[tzor]

Although my favorite campaign has always been Birthright, I also occasionally DM a Lankhmar campaign modified to fit the 3E rules. I have both the 1E and the 2E editions of the scenario. I like the medieval urban feel to the setting, although some of the rules were a pain to implement properly.

[Magian]

Other than Birthright!?!

Is there such a thing?

[Emerald Greybeard]

I've always liked Dragonlance as well. Especially as a GM. D&D was always too involved in keeping track of numbers and rules and such. I really like the impromptu challange ranking style of Dragonlance. Lets me focus on developing the storyline and bringing it to life. But as a Player... Nothing but Birthright!!

[Lord Eldred]

See now I found that the storyline was way too controlling in Dragonlance and didn't like it at all!

[Emerald Greybeard]

When I first got into it, I had the same thought, so I did some creative tweaking and changed some things. I like to use the rules and groundwork laid down by the game as a base and build it from there. Change a few things I don't like and get away from the 'mold' that was cast. I like DL because the parts of the RPG I don't like are easily changed to fit my own needs (like using the Fate cards AND dice during gameplay). I mean, who says I can't have dragons running rampant in my world or who says I have to have magic items in my world? If you have alot of time (which not many people do anymore) you can pretty much re-work any RPG to fit how you envision the world should be. Just my 2 cents!

[zukie]

Love kingdoms of Kalamar, when im not dming birthright for our group im playing in kindoms of kalamar with our other DM is scary to see how close it is to birthright

[Elijah]

Ever since I started playing Birthright, I stopped playing other fantasy campaigns. (I still play SF and stuff like that.) Basically because BR is the best! It's the D&D setting closest to the original high fantasy vision of Tolkien and which allows freedom of play, unlike Dragonlance, while settings like FR and and Greyhawk have mutated into power gaming arenas.

[Arjan]

When i DMed we played BR, but one of the players took it over from me, and although we are located in FR now, we play a mixture of FR, BR, WoT and RL and Illuminati so kinda homebrew

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[Sir Justine]

Im my group I'm the DM of a Birthright campaigns, but I'm a player in a D20 Star Wars and a Scarred Lands campaigns, plus Vulter, a medieval fantasycampaign made by my brother (i find it very good, actually it has lots of elements "borrowed" from Birthright)!