While having a weekend away in London myself and my girlfriend visited
the Making of Harry potter. IT was an enjoyable few hours but something rather
unexpected happened while I was there, I got inspiration to play Mordheim
again, but with a different setting in mind. While Mordheim is set in the city
of the damned, it has had several different settings, and I would love to try
and have a game or two set in the ruins of a giant castle. You will see why
later.
In the making of Happy potter they have a model of the Hogwarts
school, it is massive and a beautifully crafted piece of work (many pictures to
follow, but with bad light). Seeing the size of it made me think that if a
castle was so large, it could easily hold and hide several different warbands.
Especially with the size of the rooms they could easily hold up to 15 people at
any one time.
Such a large castle could have a lot of very different areas as well,
such as dungeons, very close quarter fighting, the courtyard/gardens with a lot
more open space for archers, or maybe even some huts or stables for a mixed
area. Different levels of the castle could be very different as parts of the
castle are ruined, other more intact and could be a very good setting. Granted
its similar to the original, but the little twist could be fun.
The story for such a castle existing could be quite simple. Either it
was going to be the jewel of the empire, the largest and greatest castle ever built
but during construction it was attacked and the lost. A sorcerer could have
moved in and taken over repelling all attacks and rumours start that its
haunted. After many years nothing has been heard from the castle and small
warbands go searching its ruins for lost treasures and information, both of
which are very valuable in the empire. It’s just a quick story which could be improved,
but it’s something.
In the coming weeks I’m going to try and get some friends to play in a
little campaign, be it in this setting or the regular mordheim one, so watch
this space. And here are photos of the castle that made me want to play again.
Very cool idea. Of cause if you play regular Mordheim there is nothing from stopping you having games within the walls of the many keeps and smaller castles the city no doubt had.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand this post has just inspired me for a different setting a in dwarf stronghold even better is that with the customisable magic items dwarves have you could easily fill out the treasure charts with different level runic Items.
you should read Gormenghast!
ReplyDeleteI went to Harry Potter a few weeks ago too. It literally took my breath away when I saw Hogwarts the first time. I'd taken loads of pictures of the smaller scale white card version in the room before and then when you round that corner and see it for real, oh wow! I couldn't conceive how much effort went into making it. It's a great place, though the merchandise requires a mortgage of it's own ;)
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