Would anyone be interested in a collaborative campaign? - Map update P.6

[Red Orc]

I find myself marooned some distance from my minis, paints, usual gaming buddies, piles of crap laughingly referred to as 'terrain', in fact anything gaming-related at all - except LAF and the net in general of course.

Anyhoo, I was thinking about the Atlantis campaign that we ran over on the VSF board a few years ago and wondering if anyone would be interested in a Fantasy version.

The idea would be that you'd take your usual fantasy games and feed them into a larger framework; so the encounter between some Orcs and some Dwarves that you have with your mate is no longer a one-off but part of a wider narrative. It could even be possible, if you play campaign games anyway, to integrate your campaign into the wider story.

Anyone interested, or is this a daft idea caused by glue-withdrawal and not enough dice-rolling? Only you can decide...

[LordOdo]

I would be!!

[v_lazy_dragon]

If I wasn't in the midst of packing stuff up and getting ready to move, I'd happily have a crack at it with my dark age fantasy stuff

[LordOdo]

You could join in later

Guess we will not start that soon.. We've to find a good background stroy first..

[v_lazy_dragon]

Sounds good to me
If it helps work out a back story my armies will be Romano-British (could be some sort of civilised city state?) and Pagan saxons (definitely good contenders as hairy barbarians) with giants, druids, ghostly celts, dragons and dryads/tree spirits added for mythical flavour. I've also got plans (and some figures) for dwarves and Alfar (although definitely of the 'little people' variety, and owing more to the Brownies from Willow than Tolkien!)...

[LordOdo]

I planning to do a Dryad army and one other..

[Red Orc]

Well, yeah - I don't think it's feasible to start upon the instant.

In general, I think a good way to proceed would be to find out if there's interest, and if so, what sort of armies people are going to want to play. Hopefully this will suggest some basic factions and geography; and we can roughly work it out from there.

So, for example, VLD's forces could be listed as: 1-civilised Humans; 2-barbarian Humans; 3-Magical Forest Dwellers; 4-Dwarves; 5-More Magical Forest Dwellers. Although maybe his 'Alfar' (if they're like the Nelwyn from Willow) could be Hobbits, whose to say?

Anyway that suggests that where VLD is going to be fighting there at least 4 zones - first, the city-states or empire or whatever (like Byzantium or Gondor); second, a human barbarian zone; thirdly some kind of primeval forest and fourth some mountains (as that's where Dwarves are wont to hang out, but of course these Dwarves could be sailors or desert dwellers or anything, I don't know).

But instantly the forces start to suggest possibilities in terms of 'plot'. Perhaps it's a simple case of invading humans (Civic Empire plus barbarian auxiliaries) versus the 'Fair Folk' - all the magical creatures united to defend their mountainous, forested homeland. Or maybe the Dwarves, in alliance with the Civic Empire (with whom they have extensive trading links) are muscling in on the territory of the Free Barbarian Nations, who call on their supernatural allies (dryads and giants and whatnot) to help with the resistance. Or perhaps the Dwarves and the Human barbarians are part of a wave of northern invaders who are attacking both the settled lands of the Civic Empire and the peaceful forest realm of the Fair Folk.

So, any forces can potentially be paired or opposed; if we do a fairly simple comparison of who's got what it should be possible to come up with a set of allies and enemies; and also it should suggest geography along the lines of what I outlined for VLD's forces.

Does that sound do-able?

[Mitchelxen]

Not to ruin the fun, but as a company we would be interested in getting behind something like this. We would be open to any consideration. Also, if that is too much like "crashing the party" then it was not intended and carry on.

[LordOdo]

Mitchelxen, I don't see any problems..

Red Orc, great! I was thinking about a scenario like the Atlantis one (a few teams invading an island) so the teams would be against each others and against the natives, but your ideas seem better to me.

[v_lazy_dragon]

Aye - the ideas you've suggested seem good to me!

Any or all of the plots are achievable - as my dwarves are unpainted and low in numbers, I'd be tempted to use them as auxiliaries for another power (unless of course we get another participant with a dwarf army!). I'd also be tempted just to roll the Alfar in with the forest folks, it might work better with the bronze-age savage feel I've been trying to aim for. although I've only got 4 dryads painted, I do have another 8 or so to finish, and they shouldn't take long to paint. I also have assorted cavemen in the painting que who could probably also fill out the ranks of forrest folk...

As an aside, there are pictures of some of my stuff in this blog post: http://xanderswargamingmusings.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/painting-update-28mm-arthurians-and.html

[LordOdo]

So we've pretty much forrest folk.. how about an island (let's call it Utopia for now) where forrest folk lives. But several nations/races like to invade Utopia and exploit the minerals which can be found there..?

[v_lazy_dragon]

That would work for me. Given my large selection of gohstly celts: I guess there was once an ancient tribe which lived on the island, in harmony with the nature forrest folk, but who died out many years ago. Now the island is threatened, they have returned from the ghost lands to do battle alongside their ancient allies...

[LordOdo]

Now that sounds like a plan!!

[Conquistador]

(Looks at 100's of Dwarf figures - plus 'rebel' elves/gnomes/halflings and "Freedom Forces Coalition" of Goblins - and sighs...)

Really don't have the time but it does sound like fun.

Gracias,

Glenn

[Vinlander]

I'd be interested. Been wanting a good fantasy scrap for a while now...