07-04-2022, 04:31 PM | #11 |
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Re: New Fantasy Setting Seeds.
The second one maybe feels like an Alternate Earth to me, but I don't actually care if someone puts an urban/historical fantasy on this thread. :)
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07-04-2022, 05:07 PM | #12 | |
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07-04-2022, 07:54 PM | #13 |
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Re: New Fantasy Setting Seeds.
Very true. It's Ray Bradbury writing the Little Rascals. So basically any time period from the 1890s to the present. And the setting could be changed to any small town in the West. And I mean Western Civilization.
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07-04-2022, 08:01 PM | #14 |
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Stranger Things, only with Fair Folk?
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07-04-2022, 08:19 PM | #15 |
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Paladins of the Crystal City
I always wanted to leave our farm. I only stayed because I was loyal to my mother. My father's new wife sees me only as competition with her children to inherit the farm. When the priests of the Crystal City came to the local fair to buy cattle, hogs, and sheep. They offered to tell fortunes. We knew they didn't bother to read omens. If you cooperated, they gave you a blessing of luck. The blessings were powerful. Why they did this few knew. But I know now. The Crystal City travels through the air. It follows a long path covering many miles a day. The people born to the citizens of the city must be artists, Mages, scholars, or priests. This leaves them lacking warriors. Moreover, they need warriors that can fly. They see me as able to be transformed. They will give me living wings and sight of eagles and owls. The speed of falcons and the endurance of swans and ravens as well. But I must join their legions for no less than twenty years. Where do I sign? Basically, the classic young kids seeking their place in the world. Have the PCs create a tough farm kid or similar young person,on about 150 points. Then add Winged Flight , Dark Vision , Telescopic Vision, and about 200 points of skills, attributes, and advantages. The PCs will be more than raw recruits by this time, but they won't be veterans or have high rank. The Crystal City travels from Scandinavian to tropical forest environments. Passing over seas and deserts on the way. Thus the PCs will have to deal with a wide variety of fantasy settings and cultural patterns.
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07-05-2022, 08:25 AM | #17 |
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Re: New Fantasy Setting Seeds.
This world once wailed under the oppression of the demons, the fey, and the undead. Until the Mythos came and offered the oppressed a deal for the power to fight back.
Why choose the lesser of two evils? Essentially Lovecraft-powered fantasy races vs pre-Lovecraft fantasy monsters. If you like your Mythos to be weird and alien, insert all sorts of questions about "who's really in control" and "is the devil you don't know better than the devil you do?".
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07-05-2022, 08:47 AM | #18 |
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Re: New Fantasy Setting Seeds.
I've often thought about creating a fantasy world to run a time-spanning campaign inspired by Chrono Trigger. It would have like seven major time periods:
1-the Dawn Age: an age that is equal parts Prehistory with Dinosaurs, plentiful Lovecraftian creatures, roaming Titans, rampaging Demons, and the Rise of the Gods. A Harsh world of monsters, gods and demigods. 2-the Ancient World: the gods have vanquished the Titans, trapped the demons, banished the Elder Things, and tamed most of the monsters. Now the mortal races have begun building their first kingdoms across the world. The Elves seek to create a global empire of magic from their flying cities. 3-the Medieval Era: your "traditional" Dungeon Fantasy world, with kings and knights and adventuring warriors. An age of warring states, as the mortal races recover from the fall of the Elven Empire. 4-the Age of Enlightenment: A clockpunk/steampunk time period, as the mortal races' grasp of science leads to immense progress and new developments. An age of exploration and discovery 5-the Modern Age: a world much like our own, save that humanity shares the world with a variety of other races, and magic co-exists with technology. This is an age of Action adventure, heroes fighting against crime groups and vague terrorist organizations. GURPS Technomancer would be a great inspiration here, although I'd make the world a bit backwards in terms of technology, around TL7 with some magic and dieselpunk options. 6-the Cyber Age: A more scientifically-advanced age, one where corporations have become the real political power of the world. An age of cyber-runner mercenaries fighting in the corporate shadow-wars. 7-the Apocalypse: a Cataclysm has shattered the old world, destroying the major civilizations of the world. Monsters of all kinds have reclaimed most of the world, the remaining gods are at war with the forces of chaos, and those mortals that are not caught in the conflict struggle to survive. The overall campaign would be a time-hopping one, involving factions from different time periods seeking power and dominance, and using time gate magic to try and alter history for their own designs. |
07-12-2022, 04:32 PM | #19 |
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The Gate of the Moon
The city had a name once. But that was when there was a vast fresh water sea rich in fish where now there is rock strewn desert and a small salt lake dead and poisonous. The priests of the moon foresaw the millennia of drought. The also saw the return of the rains and the sweetwater sea. The priests wove a mighty wyrd. The city now only exists when the Full Moon is above the horizon. When the Moon sets the people in the city see the rising sun become the Moon. Those outside the city see only the city fade like a forgotten dream. The nature of the wyrd is somewhat strange in that while time is sequential within the city, to those outside the city it seems the ages of the city are a random jumble. Similarly, the world beyond the city seems to be a strange whirlpool of different ages. One man who stayed in the city market past sunrise found he returned forty years late. One woman told a cadi that questioned her that she was from a thousand years into the future. It was sometimes thought she spoke the truth for she stayed young and lovely for five generations. Basically, an exotic market city with the added bonus of random time travel. Although the reference to the Cadi (Islamic jurist) points to an earthly Arabian Nights setting, possibly linking a classic Arabian Nights setting with a Sci Fi/Arabian Nights setting, any fantasy setting with significant cultural change over time works. Although as written the setting reflects the coming and going of the Sahara desert, the sinking and rising of Atlantis, or the coming and going of an ice age would work as well.
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07-12-2022, 06:46 PM | #20 |
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Re: New Fantasy Setting Seeds.
I once came up with an alternate future timeline for the Champions Universe that went something like this:
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