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Now this campaign will almost be like a book series with your party as the hero's

Of course this is assuming in gm mode you can create your own quest characters customize monsters and hopefully make your own environment / areas and city's and then actually play your campaign as the dm with 4 of your friends playing hero's in real time (I know combat is turn based)


Prologue books

War of the immortals

Dark reign

The Necromancer wars

Main series
Dark rebirth (book I)
Eternal night (book II)
Rise of the Blood moon (book III)
Blood war (book IV)
Prophecy of destruction (book v)
Ritual of chaos (book VI)
War of Destiny (book VII)

Teaser for book I!
It is the end of the sixth age in azeroth and a dark force begins to spread throughout the land an old enemy long thought destroyed returns

With the imperial order of mages decimated and corruption in the empire's ruling count . It is up to your party to save azeroth before darkness swallows the land

Deep lore
Characters you will care about
Your choices affecting the series who lives who dies New quest opening up or closing factions turning against you or giving you aid

30 + quest /chapter's in each book

That's not all their is also it's sister series the chronicles of almerin containing 3 massive books
What happened in azeroth you will hear about in almerin all together combined 10 massive books in 1 gigantic fantasy world

Book 1 a plague has descended town's completely wiped out meanwhile the nobility is being assassinated one by one and the motives of the mages of almerin are in question whispers of black magic demonic cults human sacrifice it's up to you to figure out just what is happening.

Book 2 the dwarf civil war

The throne of dromin khar is vacant and the 2 viable dwarf lords are in dispute 1 wishes them to return to their warrior traditions the other wants the dwarf race to remain craftsman and merchants
You must choose who to support and end this dispute before it leads to war

What do you all think anyone interested?

all great plans but it's probably best if you want for the GM mode to actually be out.

I've been developing this for about 6 months now it was my campaign for sword coast legends but since that is dead pretty much I'm transferring it here plus with the competitive game mechanics I can really start expanding it

Very interesting, I'm making my own original fantasy world (well as original as they can be), at the moment I got 17 Word pages of lore.

My approach to it seems a bit similar to what you are pitching here.
I have this epic story in mind that well be told in chapters that I'm planning to release along the way, at least thats the plan when the D:OS 2 editor hits and I can handle it.

I'm working on a sort of prequel in the D:OS editor, here I've linked to a thread where I've posted a picture from the first level.
http://larian.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=580920&page=2

By the way if the lore content you're working with is original, then you might wanna change the name Azeroth to something else, cuz it kinda already taken, sorry didn't wanna sound like an asshole .
I'd be happy to hear more on what you're planning.

Anyway I'm thinking about "releasing" some lore content before the end of May, and I'd be happy if you (and anyone else) would give it a read and comment on it, sorry didn't mean to hijack your thread though, I'll make my own.

nah you can stay yeah everyone on scl though it was wow at first haha . I will release the teasers for the blood wars books soon but the last 3 are a secret and I may have to rewrite the last 3 depending on what enemy and bosses we can work with and I'll definitely take a look at your work

here is the full series synopsis. Hope you like it
Book 1 dark rebirth
It's the end of the sixth age in azeroth a long dead enemy returns though none know how. With the imperial order of mages decimated its up to your party to stop the dark Lord mortis from retaking corporal form while discovering how he survived death and has returned

Book II eternal night

a prophecy discovered perpetual night has fallen over azeroth as the deadly vampire lord khardrack gathers the 9 lords of blood to wage another war against the living and claim azeroth for their own

Book III rise of the blood moon. Kardrack and the other vampire lords are nearly ready for war they must wait for the arrival of the blood moon . Your party must stop the vampire lords before the blood moon rises and a war of the dead begins

a event that happens once every thousand years a massive commit named the blood moon eclipses the land for one month with the blood moon casting it's glow upon the world any blood rituals power is increased ten fold this would make the army's of the vampire lords nearly unstoppable

Book IV the blood war
The vampire lords have begun the war of blood now the empire must fight for survival in a war against the darkness

Book IV part I

With the opening blow struck your party realizes that the only way to save azeroth is to slay the Lord's of blood and ultimately kardrack himself
The first three blood Lord's are up while also defending imperial city's

Book IV part II
With the first three blood Lord's dead kardrack is enraged and sends the remnants of the dark Lord s followers and three blood Lord's to strike the imperial capital itself and win the war once and for all

Book IV part III
The blood moon wanes yet kardrack is not defeated yet he is now desperate and has one last trump card to play its the epic final showdown of the blood wars trilogy

The last three books descriptions I'll keep secret but I will give you their titles

Book V prophecy of destruction
Book VI ritual of chaos
Book VIII war of Destiny

Your choices matter ! characters you'll care about ! deep lore! a land inspired by the fantasy greats of lotr the belgaraid warhammer and inheritance cycle!

Also be prepared for the prequel series
War of the immortals
Dark reign
And
The first blood war

But that's not all
Their will be a companion series called chronicles of almerin
Set in the same universe discover a whole new land with new characters quest and locations! What your accomplishes in azeroth shall be told of here it all connects into one massive universe

The chronicles of almerin includes 4 volumes for your party to play through
Volume I the plague
A mysterious plague threatens almerin you must discover it's origins and find a cure while simultaneously stop assasins who are attempting to kill off the nobility

Volume II civil war of dromin khar

A civil war has engulfed the dwarfs split between one who wishes to continue the warrior traditions and another who wishes for them to take up the mine's and metal work you must choose who to support and stop what seems like a unavoidable war

Volume III the lands of the fair folk

Long have the elves inhabited the world now they retreat into their forest for protection under threat of attack from dark forces And even their own corrupted kin. you must convince them to fight and help drive back the darkness

Volume IV hero's of Destiny evil threatens to destroy the world it is up to your party to save it this is your destiny ! this is your legend ! Become the immortal hero's of almerin!

Well, I like your story and setting as well as the epic scope, but I do fear that it might be to much to handle without sacrificing depth. I mean the content of 1 or 2 books could probably easily be made into a whole game by itself, but I guess you've got a better idea, of how it all is going to unfold .

My focus right now is to build up the lore and background story of the setting, though I do have a sort of skeleton idea for the main quest that will spand through all the planned releases, it just needs to be fleshed out.

Is it too early to ask into the lore setting, beside the story synopsis?

exactly what of the lore do you want to know? because knowing to much of the lore will spoil some reveals for the quest

No no I'm sorry didn't mean to pry there, I guess I'll just wait for you to disclose the content at your own pace .
I don't crave any spoilers eitherway...

no no just exactly what about the lore do you want to know
Things I can share (azeroth series)
The structure of the empire
How magic works
The general history of some of the race's
Humans (again depends on what the map is like for the game or if we can make our own in gm mode)
Dwarves
Vampires
Undead
Dragon's
Creatures (depends on what is in game we havnt seen yet)
What you'll do in dark reign( I think it will be real fun with backstabbing mechanics)
What I can't reveal
The past history of the empire (mostly)
The war of the immortals
Some creatures
Characters you will meet
Anything past the blood wars

also do you think you could help me come up with a replacement name for azeroth since that's been taken by WOW

Funny this is almost the same kind of headlines I use for descriptions in my setting.

So basically when the lore guide is finished, the chapters/headlines will look like this.
1. Introduction

2. "How magic works"

3. Deities, how they interact with the world as well as a list and a description of them.

4. Races, a short description of the sentient races that live in societies and civilizations.

5. Creatures, here I'm also hampered like you be what creatures will be included in D:OS 2, some creatures will probably just remain in the lore setting but won't be seen in-game.

6. A history of two ancient empires that has ceased to exists.

7. An in-depth description of the different nations in the game, I have made a sort of fill out form here:

Country fill-out form

Name:

History:

Government:
1. Government type
2. Sum up of social system
3. Racial composition
4. Allies and enemies
5. Organizations

Economy
1. Trading partners
2. A list of resources

Religion:
-Most favoured deities and/or shunned ones
Military:
Geography:
Notably towns or places:


The main reason for me to create a fantasy lore setting is to provide immersion for the player.

So it doesn't end up like this,

Scenario without lore:
You are in the mayor's office in some town, where he is about to give you a quest.

Mayor: "There are bandits in the woods outside the town that have been causing problems, go kill them and come back for some reward!".

Player Character: "Why have the bandits been causing trouble?".

Mayor: "They just do okay, like any generic bandits".

Player Character: "Aha, before I go could you perhaps tell me a little something about the town and yourself?".

Mayor: "Geez, it's just a town okay, where I happen to be the mayor, you got that. Lucky for you this isn't a MMORPG or I'd just found someone else who would press the accept quest option immediately".


But rather like this...
The same scenario with lore.

Mayor: "The Sparrow Creek Wood is plagued with bandits and since the only road to Black Thorn monastery goes through the wood, the leading merchants in our town have promised a reward of 100 copper pieces and an Abdanian sword to whoever cleares the woods from bandits".

Player Character: "Why have the bandits been causing trouble?".

Mayor: "This whole region has turned unstable since lord Hemen's conflict with his uncle turned into open hostilities about two months ago. The bandits have grown bold by the lack of patrols on the roads and now there are talks about lizardmen from the lizard kingdom on the other side of Sparrow Creek have joined their ranks. Gotta watch out for these lizardmen, they are tough, can take a pretty decent shot with their arbalast crossbows and they are practically immune to any kind of poison or disease, they don't like fire though.

Player Character: "Aha, before I go could you perhaps tell me a little something about the town and yourself?".

Mayor: "Sure, the town is built next to the old dwarven mine just a few minutes walk west of town. The dwarfs built the mine but quickly abandoned it again because they deemed the ore there to be inferior to their standards. Afterwards humans overtook the fully functional mine, houses started to pop up and soon there was a town, the mine is still vital to the towns economy.
I was appointed mayor to the town, by lord Hemen just over a year ago and though I'm not originally from here I like the town and wants to make an impression. You see, there are some people in town that don't like my rule and sees me as an outsider that doesn't fit in. Thats why I really wants to have the whole bandit problem taken care off. Tell you what, if you bring the severed hand of 10 bandits I can have nailed to a board on the town square to show people that this mayor means business, then I'll throw in an extra 20 copper piece from my own salary, how's that?"

The stuff written above is just something I've made up just now, but I hope people gets my point.

Sure, but to be honest I'm struggling myself to come up with original names for dozens of places and characters.

A good advice though is to look at a real world map for inspiration, try to put something together out of all the names of countries, cities, rivers mountains and other landmarks.

Also if you draw inspiration from real life historical countries you can sort get inspiration there (Many fantasy universes does it).

Like in the Elder Scrolls, where the Imperial race is based on the Roman Empire therefor all their character names sounds like Latin. The Nords are based on viking culture therefor their names sounds like viking names, Hjalmar, Skral, Fjord and so on.

In the Dragon Age franchise, the Orleasian Kingdom is based on medieval France, hence their names sounds French like.

thanks for the advice ! Hey what's your steam name I'll add you?

Sure I'll write you a PM with the info

here's some advice: one fresh thing, instead of fifty dusty old tropes, would be a good aim in describing a campaign. I think you just missed it, by a hair.