What is unique about your fantasy setting?

[Donny Brook]

Originally Posted by SilvercatMoonpaw

Want know more.

Thanks for your interest. The world/campaign is supposed to be 'mythic fantasy' rather than mainstream swords-and-sorcery, and I wanted to let players be dwarf(like) or elf(like) or ogre(like) or goblin(like) without having to create specific racial polities or cultures. Once I had the solution to that, it kind of seemed that a human race was superfluous.

I do love this part of ancient myths: you can just walk to (perhaps not literally).

Climb in this case. The passage is in a mountain range.

[edk926]

Originally Posted by Ji ji

The most unique thing in my fantasy setting is that there are no elfs.

Ever play Talislanta?

[ericthered]

Originally Posted by Refplace

My Chalice World setting is a Chalice on the back of a turtle and heavily spirit oriented, including giant sea turtles that are shaman.
Also it uses the 6 element system, though most focus on the material 5.

Originally Posted by Refplace

Thank you :)
Dwarves inhabit the upper sides of the goblet which are icy mountains. Chaos spirits come down from the top and the dwarves fight them.
The central part of the goblet is an ocean and the stem is the base of a world tree

I've actually done the bowl shaped world before. But the rest of that setting is very different: a gate effect moves water from the bottom of the funnel-shaped ocean to the top of the opposing bowl and from there into the sun (which is very much not a classical star), and there is no "outside": the bowls have no opening, and the rock they're embedded in has mystical properties that enable traveling to other worlds.



I've heard professional authors say that no element is really unique, but that combinations are.

[jason taylor]

One setting me and my dad used to tell to each other was a world dominated by a preternatural "fog" that lies in thick blankets making navigation hard. Passages from one port to another are prized and a whole first contact adventure could come from using a recently discovered journal or rutter.