Faerun.

[Aezeal]

First a lil continuation of me and Gandalfs more general scenario talk: hmmm I'd not mind making some sort of scenario again in the future but you'd have to give me feedback about the gangswars map for example so I know what works and what didn't.. all in all I got about 0 feedback and couldn't find a player to play it in MP.

Well if the whole of faerun is so well documented (I've never played a rpg but have just read a lot about it whenever I encountered it but taht obviously left me huge blank areas in knowledge) then modding it would be great.

Didn't know you ever played dom 3K either (which isn't actually a scenario but involved heavy heavy modding and mapping (for each map every single province needs to have a PD of my creation and a poptype I also had to invent myself.) I'd love your feedback there too.

On topic:
Since a lot of dnd nations seem somewhat based on RL nations and dom 3 nations have the same you should probably start by putting all nations in one age and then just take whatever nation seems to have some fitting sprites and just mod those units.. easily enough you could add the new units you need. There are also some mod nations which might very well be a base for either indie or some nations (barbarians mod, the warhammer orc mod could probably give you good stats and sprites for orc, either as race or as indies, you could lend vampire from several of the vampire mods if the vanilla ones aren't good enough.)

I think a lot of pplz here would be willing to help (though I've noticed most are better with idea's than actual work, which is alright since it's pretty hard working on one nation with more than 1 person)

YOu could probably just make a list of all nations you need and give general information and the forum could propose which nation would fit best. Maybe some would even offer to do nation themselves.

Edi seems more than willing to help on the map and he's very capable so I'd advice to let him do that if he has time.. there is plenty to do if you really want to work on this mega project so if he wants to do that you should let him and start on another part yourself.

Also.. even if Edi wants to work on the map that will take quite some time probably but you could already start with modding nations which fit on his sea of stars map... you'll need to do those nations anyway and then you could test them on his map...

I wish you gl.

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OK guys, I am going to start hanging out in chat. I am looking at some mods and building a design doc for an all out Faerun. I have all the reference at my fingertips, so if you have a question about an area, I can find it. XD

I think the map design will at first NOT have the "new areas / Terra Incognita" but I am not destroying the "full map" so I can retcon as necessary and add areas piecemeal....

Anyhow, I am looking at the DB and the mod guide and sample mods and getting ideas about what I can do.... thus hanging out in chat will help me as I encounter conceptual issues.

Monkeyvich.

[Gandalf Parker]

I thought the factions overlapped the territories of the politicals. Im not sure that the Bards would feel right as a separate nation with their own capital and expansion. Maybe you could make YOUR version have the factions aligned with various politicals. That way the unit "bards" might appear with more than one of the nations.