Green Ronin Bringing Threefold World To Modern AGE RPG
April 25, 2019 by brennon
Green Ronin has been working on a new campaign setting for their Modern AGE role-playing game. Threefold is on the way, looking to be released during the summer.
Fusing together the Fantastical and the Sci-Fi, this new setting looks to offer up a new and exciting set of realms and planes to explore. This is the first original setting planned for Modern AGE packed with advice for building characters within this world, the factions they'll be joining and of course the creatures you'll be facing during your adventures.
Whilst I don't always like the mash-up of Fantasy and Sci-Fi there are occasions where it does catch my attention. The art style they've gone for here is certainly very cool and I like the idea of the various factions, especially the Aethon who are looking to manipulate time and the alternate realms.
Modern AGE itself is a pretty good rule set for someone looking to play out games set, well...now. It also comes with lots of great options for making your adventures more over-the-top too.
I still have my reservations about the AGE games as you progress through to higher levels as the Stunt system was fun but very fiddly for some newcomers. Also, there didn't seem to be a lot of work that went into scaling enemies for added difficulty and very few helpful hints as to do it yourself either, at least in the original Dragon Age RPG.
That might have all changed now, and I hope it has, as we had a lot of fun with it originally!
Will you be giving this a go?
"Fusing together the Fantastical and the Sci-Fi, this new setting looks to offer up a new and exciting set of realms and planes to explore..."
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