Comments on: Setting Seeds: Three Explanations for the Day of Mourning http://www.encounteraday.com/2009/07/26/setting-seeds-three-explanations-for-the-day-of-mourning/ A new RPG encounter, every Monday through Friday! Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:47:42 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 <div class=wavatar><img class='wavatar' src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=0bb4756c0df08e7d6a34531bcece12ef.jpg&s=80&d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.encounteraday.com%2Fwp-content%2Fcache%2Fwavatars%2F0bb4756c0df08e7d6.png' width='80' height='80' alt='Wavatar' /></div>By: Aaron http://www.encounteraday.com/2009/07/26/setting-seeds-three-explanations-for-the-day-of-mourning/comment-page-1/#comment-1567
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Aaron Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:23:37 +0000 http://www.encounteraday.com/?p=585#comment-1567 That's just fantastic. I don't know Eberron that well, but I've been reading extensively about it, and the parts that I always focus on when coming up with plot ideas are the mysteries, i.e., what are the Draconic Prophecies, and so on. One thing I hadn't given any thought to before was the Day of Mourning, and now that I've read yours, I don't think I have to - all of these are great. Particularly the last two - I love multi-planar and alternate reality stories! Of course, knowing my GMADD, I probably will anyway... .-= Aaron´s last blog ..<a href="http://allgeektout.com/2009/07/31/then-whats-the-other-half/" rel="nofollow">Then What’s the Other Half?</a> =-. That’s just fantastic. I don’t know Eberron that well, but I’ve been reading extensively about it, and the parts that I always focus on when coming up with plot ideas are the mysteries, i.e., what are the Draconic Prophecies, and so on.

One thing I hadn’t given any thought to before was the Day of Mourning, and now that I’ve read yours, I don’t think I have to – all of these are great. Particularly the last two – I love multi-planar and alternate reality stories!

Of course, knowing my GMADD, I probably will anyway…
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Asmor Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:07:41 +0000 http://www.encounteraday.com/?p=585#comment-1559 God, why can't my players give me stuff like that to work with? Lucky! God, why can’t my players give me stuff like that to work with? Lucky!

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Craig Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:54:40 +0000 http://www.encounteraday.com/?p=585#comment-1558 Nice ideas: the "for the good of all" idea is one that I had always somewhat had in mind in a very loose idea (partially down to the influence of a particular comic-book/movie), but my Eberron games are still very low level, so there's little chance of them coming in to contact with much beyond a few rumours of the cause of the Mourning so far. I especially like the exodus idea though, particularly in the idea that it may have been a disastrous result of attempting to avoid such an attack. Incidentally, one of my players gave me a potential explanation in their background story for their character: the PC has been more or less the center of some spectacular misfortunes leading to frequent needs to change his identity, one of which involved using a mysterious old tome as a prop in a play, in which a group of actors read out passages of the ancient text while stood over a map of Cyre. This, perhaps no more than coincidentally, coincided with the Mourning. The book mysteriously vanished after the performance. I've yet to decide on how much these events had to do with the Mourning in that game, if any at all, but it gives some interesting plot hooks for any Cyrians who learn of the event meeting the group. And that book will definitely be making a mysterious return at some point in future too... Nice ideas: the “for the good of all” idea is one that I had always somewhat had in mind in a very loose idea (partially down to the influence of a particular comic-book/movie), but my Eberron games are still very low level, so there’s little chance of them coming in to contact with much beyond a few rumours of the cause of the Mourning so far. I especially like the exodus idea though, particularly in the idea that it may have been a disastrous result of attempting to avoid such an attack.

Incidentally, one of my players gave me a potential explanation in their background story for their character: the PC has been more or less the center of some spectacular misfortunes leading to frequent needs to change his identity, one of which involved using a mysterious old tome as a prop in a play, in which a group of actors read out passages of the ancient text while stood over a map of Cyre. This, perhaps no more than coincidentally, coincided with the Mourning. The book mysteriously vanished after the performance.

I’ve yet to decide on how much these events had to do with the Mourning in that game, if any at all, but it gives some interesting plot hooks for any Cyrians who learn of the event meeting the group. And that book will definitely be making a mysterious return at some point in future too…

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