Tossing out some of the previous info that I was struggling to put together + remembering that the Red Tide sourcebook has lots of good tables, including one that generates cults. As it turned out, once I had some basics established, I was able to integrate some of the stuff that had been confusing me previously.
I've been contemplating The Red Tide vs. An Echo, Resounding to complement Scarlet Heroes (and for general use as well). Are you using the setting or just the tools? I'd be interested to know how you find it, particularly if you can compare to the latter title as well. I noticed what looks like Labyrinth Lord in the corner of the photo, too, is Scarlet Heroes overlaying those rules?
Yeah, it's a little confusing. I am playing in the Red Tide setting, which, as I gather you already know, is outlined in Scarlet Heroes. I believe RT was published first, as a setting for Labyrinth Lord and other OSR systems, but of course that means it's also compatible with Scarlet Heroes. I keep a copy of LL handy in case I want to re-skin some basic D&D monsters, spells, or something like that, but it's not at all necessary.
Also, RT is written specifically to support sandbox play (that's Crawford's niche as a designer). This means it meshes very well with the solo section of SH. There's some overlap/redundacy, but basically you're getting a lot more procedures and tables that can help you fill in details for the three types of solo adventures. For example, I just rolled up a bunch of info to create a city that my PC stumbled on during a hexcrawl. It also would not take much imagination to make use of the RT sandbox content in another setting, especially for a soloist who is already practiced at the art of (re-) interpretation.
I'll pick up An Echo Resounding at some point, but am fairly certain that RT is the one to buy first. It's generally useful for sanbox play and the book for gaming in the Red Tide world. Without looking, I'd say half the page count is prose about the setting and the other half is sandbox tools.
While I'm info-dumping, I recently got The Crimson Pandect and have not found it terribly useful. The bulk of it (75-80%) details a handful of magic user classes for LL, complete with new spells. I vastly prefer the SH approach of 4 base classes and specialization via traits and also am not playing a mage currently. The sandbox-y content is fairly slight. Oh well.
Glad you got un-stuck! What turned the tide for you?
ReplyDeleteTossing out some of the previous info that I was struggling to put together + remembering that the Red Tide sourcebook has lots of good tables, including one that generates cults. As it turned out, once I had some basics established, I was able to integrate some of the stuff that had been confusing me previously.
ReplyDeleteI've been contemplating The Red Tide vs. An Echo, Resounding to complement Scarlet Heroes (and for general use as well). Are you using the setting or just the tools? I'd be interested to know how you find it, particularly if you can compare to the latter title as well.
ReplyDeleteI noticed what looks like Labyrinth Lord in the corner of the photo, too, is Scarlet Heroes overlaying those rules?
Yeah, it's a little confusing. I am playing in the Red Tide setting, which, as I gather you already know, is outlined in Scarlet Heroes. I believe RT was published first, as a setting for Labyrinth Lord and other OSR systems, but of course that means it's also compatible with Scarlet Heroes. I keep a copy of LL handy in case I want to re-skin some basic D&D monsters, spells, or something like that, but it's not at all necessary.
ReplyDeleteAlso, RT is written specifically to support sandbox play (that's Crawford's niche as a designer). This means it meshes very well with the solo section of SH. There's some overlap/redundacy, but basically you're getting a lot more procedures and tables that can help you fill in details for the three types of solo adventures. For example, I just rolled up a bunch of info to create a city that my PC stumbled on during a hexcrawl. It also would not take much imagination to make use of the RT sandbox content in another setting, especially for a soloist who is already practiced at the art of (re-) interpretation.
I'll pick up An Echo Resounding at some point, but am fairly certain that RT is the one to buy first. It's generally useful for sanbox play and the book for gaming in the Red Tide world. Without looking, I'd say half the page count is prose about the setting and the other half is sandbox tools.
While I'm info-dumping, I recently got The Crimson Pandect and have not found it terribly useful. The bulk of it (75-80%) details a handful of magic user classes for LL, complete with new spells. I vastly prefer the SH approach of 4 base classes and specialization via traits and also am not playing a mage currently. The sandbox-y content is fairly slight. Oh well.
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ReplyDeleteI just ordered Yoon-Suin from LuLu a couple days ago, so I may check that out first, but I definitely like the Sine Nomine way of things.
ReplyDeleteNice, that's on my list too.
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