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-Icewind Dale Items adapted to 5th Edition D&D Rules
The setting, music, and themes displayed in Icewind Dale really struck a chord for me many years ago when I first played. I had merely heard rough allusions to Dungeons and Dragons at the time and had self-discovered the wonderful Fantasy genre that Tolkien, Lewis, Salvatore, Brooks, Pratchett, and others had written and were writing. To discover the ability to explore such a world I had read about was captivating.
I originally had discovered it all through Baldur's Gate and had expanded to Icewind and Neverwinter. I had no clue about the various editions of D&D, only that each game was similar but different.
Fast forward to the past two years where I discovered the actual world of Pencil and Paper D&D at my Local Game Store I had gone to when discovering my childhood trove of Magic the Gathering Cards and thought to sell them. I ended up not selling all of them and found myself playing cards again in an exciting wave of nostalgia. At the same time, other people would be gathering up in another portion of the store shouting and laughing. Eventually I was invited over to discovered the world of RPG. The DM was in the process of going through various OSR systems and so I was instnatly hit with another wave of nostalgia as suddenly these great stories and games I had played by myself in my youth I could share with others who also shared that excitement.
Eventually through participating in DnDNext, I find myself no longer a player, but as a DM of a campaign that started with the early release of the 5th Edition Stater Kit, and has progressed to being my own personal creation.
I hope to share all the richness that I found so long ago with the Icewind Dale and Baldur's Gate series with these new players and so have undertaken transforming that world, setting, and rules into my current campaign. I like items with history and a story, not just a mathematical stat block. Each magical item should have its own story to tell.
As such, I am attempting to go through all the items now found in the Enhanced Edition version of the Icewind Dale and Baldur's Gate series and bring them up to speed and usable for 5th Edition D&D.
I hope to do them justice and even work some of them into my own campaign. The prospect of my players being able to then go read, and even play a video game and come across the very things they are encountering in our story together is just amazing. That level of immersion and cross media interaction is something I'm really looking forward to encountering more.
I originally had discovered it all through Baldur's Gate and had expanded to Icewind and Neverwinter. I had no clue about the various editions of D&D, only that each game was similar but different.
Fast forward to the past two years where I discovered the actual world of Pencil and Paper D&D at my Local Game Store I had gone to when discovering my childhood trove of Magic the Gathering Cards and thought to sell them. I ended up not selling all of them and found myself playing cards again in an exciting wave of nostalgia. At the same time, other people would be gathering up in another portion of the store shouting and laughing. Eventually I was invited over to discovered the world of RPG. The DM was in the process of going through various OSR systems and so I was instnatly hit with another wave of nostalgia as suddenly these great stories and games I had played by myself in my youth I could share with others who also shared that excitement.
Eventually through participating in DnDNext, I find myself no longer a player, but as a DM of a campaign that started with the early release of the 5th Edition Stater Kit, and has progressed to being my own personal creation.
I hope to share all the richness that I found so long ago with the Icewind Dale and Baldur's Gate series with these new players and so have undertaken transforming that world, setting, and rules into my current campaign. I like items with history and a story, not just a mathematical stat block. Each magical item should have its own story to tell.
As such, I am attempting to go through all the items now found in the Enhanced Edition version of the Icewind Dale and Baldur's Gate series and bring them up to speed and usable for 5th Edition D&D.
I hope to do them justice and even work some of them into my own campaign. The prospect of my players being able to then go read, and even play a video game and come across the very things they are encountering in our story together is just amazing. That level of immersion and cross media interaction is something I'm really looking forward to encountering more.
-Custom Creations
With the world of "Bounded Accuracy" that 5th Edition has brought, magical items of generic math blocks are on the outs in my opinion. Now, more so than in recent editions, the story of the item, the flavor, is the goal in creation. A simple +1 enhancement will not do. Creatitivity in effects and costs are essential.
So I'm taking a page from Many Sided Dice's "Magical Items that are Better than Nothing" and Cross Planes' "Tiefling Heritages" and add in some of my own magical items for 5th Edition D&D to the mix.
Some may be simple, some may be complex. Some will be seen in my campaign "The Old Reborn". Some will just sit idle and not be used. But I really enjoy thinking about such things and being creative so this will be a way for me to share that.
So I'm taking a page from Many Sided Dice's "Magical Items that are Better than Nothing" and Cross Planes' "Tiefling Heritages" and add in some of my own magical items for 5th Edition D&D to the mix.
Some may be simple, some may be complex. Some will be seen in my campaign "The Old Reborn". Some will just sit idle and not be used. But I really enjoy thinking about such things and being creative so this will be a way for me to share that.
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