N18 The Complete Campaign?

GraaEminense

Four-armed Emperor
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Jan 12, 2015
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Has anyone yet done the work of compiling the various campaigns and optional rules into a single system? I'm considering writing everything into a single "campaign document" for our next campaign and want to include as much as possible, but just slotting everything into a Dominion or Misrule campaign doesn't seem optimal.
 
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The new Necromunda is very much a pick and choose optional set. Some of the rules choices feel like different power levels, and different themes to explore.

My advice is to almost *ignore* the campaign types, and pick a set of rules that suits the kind of conflict you want to run the campaign for.

E.g. you might have a Dominion campaign featuring Outlaws and Lawabining gangs. As the territory balance shifts, the campaign events takes on either more trade options (more law abiding gangs make it safer) or there's more crackdowns by Enforcers, and ultimately Arbites or Inquisitors if the Outlaws are taking over.
 
How do you mix the two sets of sides? Law-Outlaw and Order-Unaligned-Chaos? For example Law Abiding Unaligned? Outlaw Order?
 
I wouldn't mix those two if I could help it. Instead I'd pick one descriptior or the other, and then treat all Order as Law-Abiding, all Chaos as Outlaw and let the middle group pick one or the other if it came to using any relevant rules I wanted to include
 
Haven't got the Uprising box yet, so I don't know that campaign set yet. So far I'm thinking to include most of the rules for Dominion and Law&Misrule, and a system for the optional stuff like intrigues and house favours etc. Then see what can be done with chaos/order... I'm thinking chaos/order/law/misrule as four "factions" with separate options.

There needs to be some penalty to play an infected or turned-to-chaos gang, since that option is just a bit too good. No alliances, perhaps.
 
New Uprising campaign is strictly between Order and Chaos. There are 3 "factions" in the campaign: Order, Chaos, Unaligned. So if Chaos fight Chaos, they must roll-off and one of them fighter for Order that battle. If Unaligned fight Unaligned, they must roll-off, the winner can choose between fighting for Order or Chaos, the loser takes the side remaining.

This can be adjusted to fit previous campaign components, but I'm interested in seeing examples of how to do that.
 
Law and Misrule, and Uprising campaigns are variations of the Dominion campaign. In theory, they could all three be combined, because the basics of the campaigns are the same. Like split-pea soup, Texas chili, and beef stew are similar in concept, but different in taste, texture, and culture. Cooking all three together in a pot might not make for an appetizing meal. The variations are not exactly compatible.

I had a campaign that "combined" the Dominion campaign,the Book of Perils and the Book of Judgement dropped into my lap due to the Arbitrator's inability to continue to participate. So, this wasn't my design, and it was a first look at combining so many disparate rules. And, the Necromunda books are kinda notorious for rules conflicts Not just typos, and cut-and-paste errors, but the impression the books are written by different teams. I spent the rest of the campaign weeding out and simplifying (didn't even attempt to add the BoP Badzones stuff, which I like!). It was all of it just too hard for the players (and me). Folks like novel stuff, but they don't want to be overwhelmed with tons of rules. It was soon apparent that we all were not playing by the same rules interpretations, anyway.

Trying to put EVERYTHING into one campaign is fraught with peril. Because one books is a recipe for soup. And, the other is a recipe for chili. And, the third is beef stew. Separately, great. Adding ingredients and spices of one recipe to the other is perhaps tasty. But, trying to make an appetizing hybrid chili-soup-stew may not be even possible.

Instead, my advice is to build UP, not DOWN. I'd advise against trying to first add in everything. Instead add to the campaign the ingredients you like, what you can manage, and what compliments YOUR campaign . Because I'm not sure everything works together. Maybe it's possible, and maybe you can. If it works out, good for you.

Finally, if you give players access to the Black Market Trading Post as written in the rules, good luck.