Everything old is…
new to you. I realized the other day that I had a lot of material and ideas for the old Taera campaign that never saw the light of day. Being lazy generally and looking to minimize my preparation time I thought this could be put to use. Why not make Altaerra == Taera?
The events from the Taera campaign could easily be worked into the history of Altaerra – who wouldn’t want to read about their character’s exploits in the history of the “new” world? – and what little history of Taera was revealed in play could also be reused. All of the maps and other background information I never worked into the campaign will easily transition to the new campaign as well. Or not – if it didn’t make it the first time, maybe I don’t even need it the second time around…
Obviously there’ll be some tweaking to maintain consistency with the previous campaign and probably to fit things better with the 4E rules. I’d also plan to advance the timeline a bit (ok, probably a lot) from the end of the last campaign. That will allow some flexibility to build a different feeling campaign – probably with less focus on undead – while retaining some of the familiarity from the original.
Anyway, I’m heavily leaning towards this plan. Let me know if you hate it in the comments…
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