[Campaign] Of Blood and Honor

[Theoden of KoMe]

I want to turn into a campaign the wrc Novel Of Blood and Honor
It's the story of Tirion Foroding from the glory of the silver hand to the exile for treason.Any suggestions or help will be welcome
---Theoden[KoMe]---

 

[cleavinghammer]

Sounds like an ambitious project, I look forward to it.

I haven't read the novels myself, but if you want to see some good examples of adapted novels I suggest looking at these three.

 

[Theoden of KoMe]

I hava already red them all All i need is ideas and suggestions for the campaign

 

[Footman16]

Have you played them? This is quite ambitious you will need very clear set chapters and quests.

 

[cleavinghammer]

Well...

First of all, you need some sidequests so those who have read the books will have something new to see.

Another important aspect is knowing when to stick to the books and when to diverge from it. While fetch quests are all fine and good when there's no pressing matters, it breaks suspension when a peasant asks you to find his sheep in the middle of a final battle.

Additionally, know what can be padded out and how much so. If there's a time skip in the books (if the characters go from one city to another and no attacks happen in the book), then you can, for example, put in an escort mission as the characters go the scenic route, fighting off bandits. And so on.

 

[PurgeandFire]

I worked on an adaptation of the book as well. I was going to make it a cinematic, though. However, it began to get very long and very boring (about 20-30 minutes in), since I wasn't really cutting out much from the actual novel (eh... it is sort of uneventful in the beginning, IMO. The cool stuff begins to happens later on).

My tip is to add some filler. I definitely think cleavinghammer's tips are great. Perhaps let them explore Hearthglen before setting them off on the main missions. You can get a feel of Tirion's presence over the town. Although, as he said, you don't want to interject too much when the juicy stuff happens.

Another thing is that you should set it up so that the player gets a real hatred towards the orcs. Maybe have a village raided by some orcs, and you have to defend it (or something similar). The reason why I say this is because then the player will get a better understanding of the alliance's perspective towards the orcs--which is complete hatred, at the moment. The conflict between siding with Barthilas versus siding with Tirion will then become all the more epic.

I wish you luck on your map, though! I always love to see the adaptations (mostly OutsiderXE's campaigns). It has that realistic feel to it since the lore is considered candid by most people, more or less.

EDIT: Here is a pic of Western Plaguelands that may help:

Pic

For one before cata:
http://www.imageslime.com/img/Western-Plaguelands-map-3519.jpg

Perhaps you could incorporate some of the neighboring areas if you are looking for ideas on what to add to the campaign.

 

[Theoden of KoMe]

Well WoW maps are a bit useless cause they tell the story after the tft.The campaign takes place before the roc....Uther is still alive and arthas is just a young recruite at the silver hand.This campaign has really too much for a cinematic but i will try to add playable maps too.All i need before i start this is to fix my editor cause its in badly shape.

 

[Forsaken]

the ideia is really nice, it is difficult make book into campaign, u will need make custom lore too, for somethings make sence in the maps,gameplay

i can help u, with u need help in the terrain

 

[Footman16]

Most pre-cata maps are just undead versions of the actual places and the eastern plaguelands hasn't changed much from TFT to vanilla wow.