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Zulgyan	Mesopotamic Campaign (with new hexed map)	Lead	[-]
Posts: 318 Feb 10 07 8:08 PM Wraith Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Tags : None Ok, I'm creating my own rules-set and I'm planning to playtest it and develp it in an Ancient Mesopotamia Campaign. I have this excelente module to help me with the patheon, races and some other stuff, but not for much else. I may use the adventure part, of course, converting and changing most of the stuff to my new system. The campaing will be mostly based in an Argentinian (I'm from there) comic from the seventies, called "NIPPUR de Lagash" (Nippur of Lagash), that is set in ancient Sumer, prior the unification of the citystates by Luggalzagizi. Here you have some pics to get a bit of the taste... www.magicasruinas.com.ar/...nippur.jpg www.mastromarcopugacioff....tura69.jpg www.historieteca.com.ar/H...lagash.htm And here yo have a Numbered Hex Map that can be good to anyone who plans to play a meso campaign. I hope you find it usefull. picserver.student.utwente.nl/v/MD8W7W07Q53X
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leadjunkie	Re: Mesopotamic Campaign (with new hexed map)	#1	[-]
Posts: 3705 Feb 15 07 4:28 PM Necromancer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Super kool map. I'm saving a copy for that distant time when I actually play a bronze age game. Thanks for the work. What is the scale in miles or kilometers per hex?
Zulgyan	Re: Mesopotamic Campaign (with new hexed map)	#2	[-]
Posts: 318 Feb 15 07 11:54 PM Wraith Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	You can use either 12 mile or 20 km hex scales. This is of course an aproximation of real scale distances that are intended for more comfortable gaming calculations. To calculate the hex size I used the map given in this module by NG, using the distance bewteen Nippur and Babylon. It's a bit more than 50 miles, and in my map that is 4 hexes and about 1/2 of the 5th hex (55 miles, 90 kilometers aprox). So, characters can travel either 24 miles or 40 km per day walking unemcumbered and with no hard terrain. That's 2 hexes. One of the attractives of playing a prior sumer-unification campaign is that each city state is much more independant and are constantly fighting each other. IMC players will start as slaves in the city of Lagash, fighting in the arena to please Urikagina the priest-king and the people's fascination on bloody combat. The intention is to test my combat rules for the rules set I'm making up.
leadjunkie	Re: Mesopotamic Campaign (with new hexed map)	#3	[-]
Posts: 3705 Feb 16 07 3:13 PM Necromancer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Thanks for that added bit of information - very sensible. Now if I could just get the companion map for Egypt and Palestine.
Zulgyan	Re: Mesopotamic Campaign (with new hexed map)	#4	[-]
Posts: 318 Feb 17 07 2:50 AM Wraith Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I'm looking for that too. If I find, I hex it and post it.
robertsconley	Re: Mesopotamic Campaign (with new hexed map)	#5	[-]
Posts: 525 Feb 23 07 9:55 AM Spectre Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Wouldn't the coastline be further northwest? Rob Conley
Zulgyan	Re: Mesopotamic Campaign (with new hexed map)	#6	[-]
Posts: 318 Feb 23 07 10:41 AM Wraith Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Wich one? In any case, I didn't make the map, I just hexed it.
robertsconley	Re: Mesopotamic Campaign (with new hexed map)	#7	[-]
Posts: 525 Feb 23 07 1:46 PM Spectre Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Where the Tigris and Euphrates join. That whole area downstream was filled by the outflow of the in the three thousand years since ancient sumeria. Looked something like this upload.wikimedia.org/wiki...otamia.PNG Rob Conley
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Zulgyan	Re: Mesopotamic Campaign (with new hexed map)	#8	[-]
Posts: 318 Feb 23 07 3:37 PM Wraith Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Now I understand. I really don't think I have to be that precise. Thanks a lot anyway! By the way, the Thieves' Fortress conversion is great! Z. PD: I'll have egypt and palestine soon to post.
leadjunkie	Re: Mesopotamic Campaign (with new hexed map)	#9	[-]
Posts: 3705 Feb 23 07 4:27 PM Necromancer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* I'll have egypt and palestine soon to post. Very Kool.
leadjunkie	Re: Mesopotamic Campaign (with new hexed map)	#10	[-]
Posts: 3705 Mar 23 07 8:50 PM Necromancer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* PD: I'll have egypt and palestine soon to post. bump How's it coming with the map?
1MaGicbEAn	Re: Mesopotamic Campaign (with new hexed map)	#11	[-]
Posts: 1238 Mar 24 07 7:29 AM The Frumious Bandersnatch Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Here is a map of the ancient middle east and a chart indicating which places were associated with metalworking of copper, bronze, or iron. Historically these places did not all exist during the same time period but I thought it might add to the topic. The maps are from a Time Life book, "The Metalsmiths", about ancient metallurgy. i46.photobucket.com/album...tsites.jpg i46.photobucket.com/album...esites.jpg
leadjunkie	Re: Mesopotamic Campaign (with new hexed map)	#12	[-]
Posts: 3705 Mar 24 07 4:24 PM Necromancer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Good info Bean. That kind of information can be useful for creating reasons to travel to cities or to incorporate into plot hooks.
Zulgyan	Re: Mesopotamic Campaign (with new hexed map)	#13	[-]
Posts: 318 Mar 25 07 5:33 PM Wraith Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I haven't yet found a cool map to hex yet. I don't know if I will ever have it.
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