Game designer Bruce Cordell has produced one of the most unique game supplements in - When the Sky Falls (“WSF”) from Malhavoc Press. WSF explores the impact of a major meteor or asteroid strike in a D&D 3rd Edition fantasy game. Unlike the likelihood in the real world, the fantasy world is not destroyed in an pyroclastic spasm and Fimbul winter. There are, of course, some of those repercussions, but the focus is on more magical aftereffects. One of these is the possibility of an “engram ark.” It seems Mr. Cordell has a thing for engrams (see Return to White Plume Mountain and the Keraptis engrams).
An engram ark is essentially a carrier in a meteor or asteroid for self-replicating engrams that can modify or alter any lifeforms they encounter. The engrams produce new lifeforms, alter existing lifeforms or may replicate alien ones.
As long as I was looking at the possibility of extraterrestrials in Greyhawk, I thought I would plug this product, suggesting it as a possibility. It even has a tenuous Greyhawk tie via White Plume Mountain, albeit a thematic one. Then again . . .
I have actually used this sourcebook in a GH game, in which a meteor struck down hard and heavy in Tenh, bringing the wars there to an abrupt end. It caused some interesting in-game effects, as everyone was afriad of the meteor and yet trying to exploit it in some way.
I can really recommend this sourcebook. It has some really interesting ideas, and when you start thinking about the stars and planets, all of a sudden the Bakluni astrologers have yet another role to fulfill...
This is definitely a book that, while unconventional, spices things up. A lot.
If one cared to adopt what LG has promoted as the destruction of Tenh, a meteor might be an interesting way for an "ether threat" to visit Oerth. I've never read the LG modules that promulgated the Ether Invasion, but I've often critiqued its affecting Tenh (why Tenh!?). A meteor could provide a "reason" for the invasion to affect Tenh initially.
Writing this reminds me of the Final Fantasy film though I'm not sure how to connect it to this.
I have actually used this sourcebook in a GH game, in which a meteor struck down hard and heavy in Tenh, bringing the wars there to an abrupt end. It caused some interesting in-game effects, as everyone was afriad of the meteor and yet trying to exploit it in some way.
I can really recommend this sourcebook. It has some really interesting ideas, and when you start thinking about the stars and planets, all of a sudden the Bakluni astrologers have yet another role to fulfill...
This is definitely a book that, while unconventional, spices things up. A lot.
Me too. I have used this a little IMC and plan to do more with it. This is a product rich in unique ideas and one that suggests even more matters that DMs might develop. As Greyhawk has a history of impacts (see the Pits of Azak-Zil), I think this as good a product for use in Greyhawk as one might find now adays.
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