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====== Eldritch Earth: Five Hacks Deep ====== | ====== Eldritch Earth: Five Hacks Deep ====== | ||
- | Set in an alternate earth, the heroes create their own expeditions to leave small pockets of safety to explore a wilderness dotted with the horrors and riches of a decadent, fallen civilization. This Lords of Hack 5e/OSR crossover game aims to embrace a " | + | Set in an alternate earth, the heroes create their own expeditions to leave small pockets of safety to explore a wilderness dotted with the horrors and riches of a decadent, fallen civilization. This Lords of Hack 5e/OSR crossover game aims to embrace a [[the sandbox|" |
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+ | =====The Campaign===== | ||
+ | *[[Our Heroes|Our Heroes]] | ||
+ | *[[Game Logs|Game Logs]] | ||
+ | *[[Stately Angus Manor]] | ||
+ | *[[Hill Camp Hundred]] | ||
+ | *[[Pigeon Hills|Pigeon Hills Hundred]] | ||
+ | *[[Campaign Calendar]] | ||
+ | *[[Travel Times]] | ||
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- | This campaign is set in a world we will call “Eldritch Earth” that is a parallel to our own world in the 12th century. Everything in Europe, Asia and Africa is just like our world. However, many of the mythic elements of antiquity are in fact real and the Americas are discovered and colonized much earlier. | + | [[setting|This campaign]] is set in a world we will call “Eldritch Earth” that is a parallel to our own world in the 12th century. Everything in Europe, Asia and Africa is just like our world. However, many of the mythic elements of antiquity are in fact real and the Americas are discovered and colonized much earlier. |
- | The civilization of Atlantis was real, as was the Pacific Continent of Lemuria. Both of these continents sunk beneath the waves in prehistory burying these advanced civilizations. Refugees from Atlantis settled in North America, and refugees from Lemuria settled in South America. Angry with the gods for the destruction of their homelands, the Atlanteans and Lemurians turned to dark sorcery, necromancy and demonology and created nightmare civilizations in the Americas. As Europe grew into the high Middle Ages, these civilizations degenerated further and fell into complete collapse. They left behind ruins crammed with the demonic products of their wizardry, the undead remnants of their peoples, the monstrous products of their experiments and strange artifacts of power and danger. | ||
- | Centuries later, settlers fed up with serfdom and perpetual war in Europe create small pockets of civilization in North America. One “cash crop” of the English Kingdom (called the Kingdom of Nessex) is gold and artifacts taken from the remains of the Atlantean civilization, | ||
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- | * [[Gazetteer]] | ||
- | * [[Cosmology]] | ||
===== Character Generation ===== | ===== Character Generation ===== | ||
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+ | Players may [[character generation|create a hero]] from a number of heritages and choose from one of fifteen archetypes to create their character. | ||
===== Custom Rules ===== | ===== Custom Rules ===== | ||
- | ==== Live Game Rules ==== | + | While this campaign will stay true to a core mechanic that is nearly identical |
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- | * The [[Core Mechanic]] | + | |
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- | * A simplified | + | |
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- | * Unique [[character generation]] | + | |
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- | * [[Combat|Combat]] related | + | |
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- | * [[Healing|Healing]] information collected in one place. | + | |
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- | * [[Corruption|A corruption system]] to track demonic possession | + | |
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- | * [[Stress|A very simple but effective sanity system]] | + | |
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- | * Custom rules with regard to recruiting and retaining [[Hench|NPCs and Retainers]] | + | |
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- | * An innovative but OSR-flavored [[XP|rewards]] system | + | |
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- | * A new [[spells|spellcasting]] | + | |
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- | ==== Downtime Rules ==== | + | |
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- | * A simple description of regular [[Expenses|expenses]] and maintenance | + | |
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- | * Directives for how to buy and maintain | + | |
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- | * Rules for downtime [[Crafting|crafting]] of mundane and magic items | + | |
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- | * Information on how to request and carry out downtime side quests | + | |
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- | * Details on how to use the " | + | |
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- | ====== Design Notes ====== | ||
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- | This wiki is the collaboration space for the Lords of Hack 5e/OSR crossover game aimed at being a " | ||
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- | We hope to use the skeleton of the [[https:// | ||
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- | * [[Rules|Proposed House Rules]] | ||
- | * [[Setting|Proposed Campaign Setting]] | ||
- | * [[Character Generation|Proposed Character Generation Rules]] | ||
- | * [[to do|Our To Do List of elements we want to complete]] | ||
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- | * [[Equipment|Online Equipment Book]] | ||
- | * [[Spells|Online Spell Book]] | ||
- | * [[Monsters|Online Creature Feature]] | ||
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