Game Of Thrones Dungeon Crawler?

[ActRaiserTheReturned]

So. . . I was thinking of hosting a Game of Thrones RP. I'm a newcomer to Game of Thrones. While I don't watch the show I'm intrigued in some things, disgusted by others, and I am interested in just reading it's wiki and hosting a RP with all the Game of Thrones elements; Westeros, some of the show's trappings like low magic, violent combat, and tragedies. The idea is that the Rod Of The Stranger (made up artifact), has been discovered by a powerful warlock, made even far more powerful with the Rod. He intends to awaken an entire Brood of Dragons greater in number than Daenary'ses (spelling?), while he absorbs much of their power, becoming a living god. He's already the most powerful warlock in the entire continent of Westeros, his name. . . Aldarin.
The intro would open with the origins of Aldarin and his motives for awakening the dragon brood, and how he became an evil warlock as opposed to a benevolent magic user.

[ArenaSnow]

I don't see any individual in the series being capable of actually holding, let alone acquiring, that much power. Just doesn't seem to fit for me, 5 seasons in myself.

[ActRaiserTheReturned]

I don't see any individual in the series being capable of actually holding, let alone acquiring, that much power. Just doesn't seem to fit for me, 5 seasons in myself.

@ArenaSnow

He's the absolute best in the world, with Adept level Skyrim like spells. . . The reason he's even greater is because of his Rod of the Stranger, a divine artifact.

[ArenaSnow]

That's the thing, though. GoT has part of its appeal in not being flashy with magic - in many cases it is reasonable for characters to believe magic's just a set of tricks that aren't real.

I'd be interested in something GoT related, but that level of power to an individual doesn't catch with the setting.

[ActRaiserTheReturned]

That's the thing, though. GoT has part of its appeal in not being flashy with magic - in many cases it is reasonable for characters to believe magic's just a set of tricks that aren't real.

I'd be interested in something GoT related, but that level of power to an individual doesn't catch with the setting.

@ArenaSnow

You know how Sauron is the most powerful sorcerer and enemy of his setting? Well, this is Aldarin. Aldarin is the Dark Lord of this setting.

[ArenaSnow]

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You know how Sauron is the most powerful sorcerer and enemy of his setting? Well, this is Aldarin. Aldarin is the Dark Lord of this setting.

@ActRaiserTheReturned

Different premises. LOTR has elves, dwarves, ents, Balrogs, hobbits, mordor, wizards, gods and various other bits - GOT, by comparison, has rare (and at this point just a few) dragons, humans as the dominantly most common species (wildlings and humans, the main divergence - wildlings still being humans), and a force of undead that aren't as of yet that well explained.

You can do as you will, and I'd be a bad person to dissuade divergence in some part from canons, but the main thing here is that I just don't see high-fantasy godly characters fitting in this universe a fraction as effectively as LOTR, a universe built around high fantasy (built high fantasy in the first place?).

[ActRaiserTheReturned]

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Different premises. LOTR has elves, dwarves, ents, Balrogs, hobbits, mordor, wizards, gods and various other bits - GOT, by comparison, has rare (and at this point just a few) dragons, humans as the dominantly most common species (wildlings and humans, the main divergence - wildlings still being humans), and a force of undead that aren't as of yet that well explained.

You can do as you will, and I'd be a bad person to dissuade divergence in some part from canons, but the main thing here is that I just don't see high-fantasy godly characters fitting in this universe a fraction as effectively as LOTR, a universe built around high fantasy (built high fantasy in the first place?).

@ArenaSnow

Lord of the Rings is low magic, even if High Fantasy. Gandalf the White, or Galadriel could probably defeat Aldarin anyway.