D&D 2E Jakandor
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Similar to why I asked the question. For my Greyhawk campaigns, I’m filling in the rest of Oerth, and Jakandor looks like it might fit as the unexplained (at all, other than being on the map) small island continent of Gonduria.
No kidding. 2e had so much of everything.
It would have been a full time job - or more - to even read everything they published in that era, much less run it.
R_J_K75
Legend
I was surprised when I was looking for information on Jakandor to find out that Council of Wyrms came out in 1999. I remember buying it, reading it but never ran it. I thought it came out earlier than that. I don't think too many people ran those one-off campaign settings. Ghostwalk comes to mind as well, I bought it & read it. As cool as the concept was it just seemed like it wasn't enough to sustain a long-term campaign.
Alzrius
The EN World kitten
The re-release came out in 1999, but the original boxed set came out in 1994.
R_J_K75
Legend
Oh yeah I forgot it was a boxed set first. I bought the hardback in 99 though
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
I had two of the three Jakandor books, but never used them.
They were a great idea that, today, we would have go through a bunch of cultural sensitivity passes and probably have an anthropologist or something be the main author on.
Having two separate home cultures the PCs could be from was a good idea, as each book was largely favorable to their side. I think it brushed up against the clueless-RPG-companies-clumsily-discussing-people-of-color thing that White Wolf made an unfortunate part of their brand in the 1990s.
That said, non-evil necromancers are awesome, and TSR got their years ahead of White Wolf (in the form of Sword & Sorcery) doing it with Hollowfaust, City of Necromancers in 2002.
They were a great idea that, today, we would have go through a bunch of cultural sensitivity passes and probably have an anthropologist or something be the main author on.
Having two separate home cultures the PCs could be from was a good idea, as each book was largely favorable to their side. I think it brushed up against the clueless-RPG-companies-clumsily-discussing-people-of-color thing that White Wolf made an unfortunate part of their brand in the 1990s.
That said, non-evil necromancers are awesome, and TSR got their years ahead of White Wolf (in the form of Sword & Sorcery) doing it with Hollowfaust, City of Necromancers in 2002.
Interestingly, the Charonti and the added materials for the Goodman Games OAR version of Isle of Dread are both great depictions of cultures that put a lot of emphasis on death, undeath, and ancestor-worship that steers it far away from the typical boring "necromancy is evil" stuff. That was certainly one of the things that drew me to Jakandor.
R_J_K75
Legend
There were white and grey necromancers in the Complete Book of Necromancers in 1995
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
That's a good book, and has a surprising amount of Al-Qadim setting material, but it's still not a complete society of them, which is what I was thinking about with Jakandor and Hallowfaust.
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