No player of mine is going to sit in a castle and collect taxes while his serfs chop down trees.
If anyone tries it, his stronghold will be a cesspool of murderous intrigue and a magnet for usurpers and outlandish horrors until he's happy to return to the adventuring life!

I love reading this sort of stuff in rpg books but I've never had a character in my fantasy campaigns get past about 4th level, or earn much more than a couple of thousand gold. This is partly due to death and partly as I cannot get people to stick with any campaign beyond a handful of sessions.

I like the cut of your jib, RedJowel.

Very cool concept, I like it. 

Thanks Was wondering about ideas and game rules to entice settlers over to PC's strongholds.
Since their patrons are also interested in siphoning off all the slum dwellers in old town to new locations.
Like a resource? Lumber, silver, green diamonds? 

Tikon2000 wrote:

Castle building is my major end goal for my game. Since their patrons in Khromarium want another bastion of civilization in the wasteland. Another stronghold to shield against attacking barbarian hordes.
That and I want to use mass combat rules for a major invasion into the setting.
Nazis escaping their defeat on old Earth using eldritch gates, to conquer Hyperboria instead.
(Jeffrey Talanian did say you could have an alien invasion in your setting if you wanted)
Given the pulpy weird science/fantasy inspiration of ASSH, as well as Call of Cthulhu.
Perfect excuse to pit my player's fantasy forces, versus weird-science walking tanks from the dieselpunk era.

Sounds great to me, too.
 

I have been working on my campaign. I started with the Blak Hag of Lug adventure in the 2nd Edition main book.
From that, I sidetracked into helping that sad troglodyte in the caves recruit the PCs to retake his tribe. Then role played the trek to Khromarium to meet my patron NPCs. Trogo & Blix, a hyperborean and Atlantean team of Magicians who hire people to recover magical artifacts for the city to use. I used the Hollenwagon as an encounter, from the Merry Mushman's Folklore Bestiary OSE book.
For the Patrons, I headquartered them in the One-Legged Shield. Which confused the players until they saw it. Thinking it was a weird name for a tavern. It's actually a Flying Saucer with one central landing gear/stair entrance down. That's been stuck there since the original crew all died while visiting right as the Green Death happened. (Yes I am leaning heavily into the weird in weird fantasy )
From there I am thinking of using the Ghost Ship of the Desert Dunes adventure. As well as the Charnell Crypt of the Sightless Serpent, and later the Forgotten Fane of the Coiled Goddess.
Other adventures I hope to utilize are Tomb Robbers of the Crystal Frontier. Great as an add-on to the Dessert Dunes adventure. As it deals with more crystal finding.
Along with DCCs The Corpse that Love Built. And Hungarian D20s Lost Valley of Krishnar. That high-level adventure I think would be perfect for where the PCs can set up their stronghold if they start one. As it has an interesting resource they can utilize. Being a divine tree that bears fruits of fertility. Something that the dwindling Hyperborean and Atlantean families would pay through the nose for... or try and take for themselves. And maybe it will be a good base for the PCs when I introduce the Nazi invaders.

I guess the advice I am asking for is the placement of all these locations. The Crystal Frontier should be close to the Desert Dunes of course. I'm wondering where to place the Lost Valley. Somewhere close to Khromarium? Like Trogos? As it is seeking to expand its holdings. Or more far-flung like the Valley of Mists? Or the Red Desert?
That and where the interdimensional Nazis stargate in from. In Pictland? Where they might ally with the King there? Or brought in by the Witch Queen of Yithorium? Or do they try and conquer Vikland? Since they're obsessed with Norse mythology.
Anyways,, thanks for reading through my ramblings. I'd appreciate any ideas anyone would like to share.

Tikon2000 wrote:

Almost forgot, the Amazonian Sky Skiff from Dessert Dunes is another resource to play with. The plans for making one are in the Desert Dunes adventure correct?

I don't believe so, no. It has a thorough description, a nice schematic and statistics, but not exactly "plans to make one". It is a weird science artifact, left to the Ref to develop how it could be made.

Yes, I would think so: my group knew its value and built a hanger to conceal it. 

Fuel for a sky ship is a very real problem. A decent amount gets used going from the Diamond Desert to Khromarium.

As it turns out when I ran Ghost Ship they stopped by Port Greely on the way back to Khromarium. They were able to get the golems there...and also have to deal with 2 party members injured by those golems.

They used those golems to empty the water out of the mine and then had them start bashing the mine. Sort of on autopilot as they were on a quest to the Lemurian Remnant to get the injured players restored to full health.

The campaigned ended with them on some island in Lemuria so they never got
back to those golems.

I figured they would have a high chance of being dead/malfunctioning from being exposed to so much green diamonds. Thinking on it, I think they would also be radiating like green diamonds from being exposed to them. Even though there isn't a lot of green diamonds they would expose it would be enough I think.

They decided it was "best" to buy a ship to go to the Remnant rather than risk running out of fuel and not being able to get back.

Of course, sea travel in Hyperborea is...interesting on the open sea.