The main boxed set gives the basic rundown on the campaign, the history, and I think the details for running a campaign in Aniure. He can decide the one army is stronger and win, or he can use the War Cards, which is a relatively simple mass combat game they built into the rules, probably because Battlesystem was pretty much dead when Birthright got published.
There's a few ways a DM can resolve warfare and mass combat. There's 5 different human kingdoms/cultures:Īnuireans are your generic medieval Europeans, basically an English/French mix from around the Hundred Year's War.īrechts are mercantilist Germans, pretty much like the Hanseatic League. Humanoids like goblins and gnolls often act as mercenaries and sometimes form their own small kingdoms. Halflings come from another plane called the Shadow World, and they can pass between the two worlds at will. Dwarves tend to keep to themselves, preoccupied with battling hordes of orogs deep beneath the earth. Birthright elves aren't the Tolkien-lite elves of FR, they have quite a bit of the Fair Folk about them, and some like to hunt humans for sport.
#Birthright campaign setting gods how to
Elves know how to keep their cities in tune with nature so they don't deplete magic, and they often don't like humans because the humans are more careless. Magic is supposed to be somewhat rare in the world, it's tied to the natural world and developing civilization diminishes magic potential.
#Birthright campaign setting gods Pc
Here a PC regent undertakes actions that affects his entire domain for the season, he can raise armies, wage war, establish trade routes, whatever. There are domain turns which roughly correspond with one season. Running domains are divied among the 4 class groups: warriors are the nobles and rule various feudal fiefs, priests run temples, rogues run guilds (legit or not ), and wizards control the world's magic. Scions also have an ability called bloodtheft, when one scion kills another, he can steal the other's bloodline and become more powerful (probably inspired by Highlander). You could also have bloodless PCs if you don't want to vet into all the blood and domain stuff I guess, or if the players are fine with running a mixed party. This gives them various abilities, and benefits when ruling a domain as a regent. The scions and awnsheghlien went on to establish various domains in Cerilia.Īnyway, the various PCs can be scions that have bloodline that tie them back to the various old gods. The mortals that gained the essense of Azrai became the awnsheghlien, or abominations (basically super-monsters that are there to be various Big Bads of the setting). The mortals who got the greatest amount of the gods' essense became new gods, while the other mortals became scions - people who developed a bond with the land of Cerilia, mainkg them powerful rulers. At the end, all the gods were destroyed, and their essense was divided among the various mortals who survived the battle. Never played Birthright, but this is what I know about it:ġ500 years ago the old gods of the world battled Azrai, the god of darkness. The wargame aspect of the game looked pretty basic and kid-like to me. The other option is having one or two people be the regents and then the other players would be his lackeys (or council members, however you want to call it). Otherwise, how is the rich sons and daughters of six different counties/principalities all get together to run adventures together? This part is really wack to me. And of course, everyone's going to want to be the regent. Especially since they're there for 1st level characters. The rules for rulers seemed pretty wack to me. So your big bad villains would have built in ties to the land itself that they're villaining. They were big buff dudes (mostly) that had ruler type and regent powers. It had a bunch of unique monsters which was really cool. It had a bunch of different ethnic groups for humans which was nice. The rulers are tied to the land through magic and blood (their birthright).
But it did put an emphasis on being a ruler (or regent whatever they called it). I'm indifferent to the setting but I'll pitch in a few cents.
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