Spire Cryptomancer Mashup

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The latest of my mashup concept RPG campaigns is a combination of Spire and Cryptomancer. I've had Cryptomancer for a while but haven't had a chance to delve very deeply into it, let alone run it. I missed the Spire Kickstarter campaign, but I did order prints of the two maps that were available as add-ons. I liked the premise of Spire as a setting, and I loved the previews of the maps, but I wasn't sure I wanted to add yet another system to my list of 'let's play this' RPGs. Meanwhile I was still trying to get around to reading through Cryptomancer so I could get that to the table. Now I'm feeling I can just mash them together and kill two birds with one stone.

Ideas

  1. Spire is a location within the Cryptomancer setting
  2. Use of shards isn't very common within the Spire (and the Underspire) but they are used to communicate with the rest of the world
  3. The campaign is about freedom fighters up against oppressive overlords
  4. The Risk Eaters don't see the high elves as a threat, they do see their enemies as threats
So the PCs will be drow, fighting against the oppressive high elves, who are aided and supported by the Risk Eaters. I'll use Cryptomancer for the rules system and the shardscape, Spire is really just a location, with a very specific version of the struggle against the Risk Eaters.

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