Quote from: Kiero;896798So more power to you for sidestepped all that Tolkein-esque crap.

I must be honest, still elves, dwarves and dragons, cause it started from D&D, but the context is different, and their's a lot more races. And they have complex relationships, despite living together a lot of the time in any place that Adventurers gather. It's a time of scientific discovery, in part thanks to academic wizards.


It's supposed to be if you took middle earth, shook it all up, throw in some current science, then wait a century play D&D, avoid dying of the "magic" plague, wait a few centuries and stop short of victorian, because steampunk does not inspire philosophical angst...

Well, I'm not going for purely historical, and I'm trying now distance myself from the old and new D&D ideal, despite retaining the classic fantasy theme. THe system is more of a result of not being able to find the system that had the right amount of complexity and ease me and my players wanted, and by building it from the ground up, the games we've run show that we can make a complex system that has everything the setting has and connects it, that doesn't drag on and on.

It is a large goal, but the progress we've made so far make me think we can do it.

I've long since believed that with a very small number of exceptions, so-called "medieval" fantasy isn't anything of the sort: the level of technology presented in most settings is firmly Renaissance, with a side dish of late 18th century Age of Sail nautical tech.

17th-18th centuries, why not?

Quote from: WizardofthePress;896772Mostly my own leg work, but I would remise to not mention I have a small team who help brainstorm and keep me from losing sight of the goal.

Sir, you've got my attention.

One question. You mention horror being one of ideas you flirted with in the past - did you smuggled it into your setting, or did you abandon it on the way?

Quote from: JesterRaiin;896760Heh. A premise of a scenario for upcoming Myriad Song session, tbh. I'm too poor to own a console.

2e D&D setting during the CD audiotrack craze TSR went through.
You had dog people, turtle people, clockwork people. Political intrigue around every corner. People mutating due  to use and addiction to a self replicating mineral thats really the remnants of an evil god. Wrap it in a mix of the Swashbuckling age, Enlightened age and a little American west with a touch of Zorro. Toss in airships, talking spiders as a PC race and then sit back and watch the weirdness.

Quote from: JesterRaiin;896844One question. You mention horror being one of ideas you flirted with in the past - did you smuggled it into your setting, or did you abandon it on the way?

To the contrary, I love a good pirate ghost tale, vast powerful necromancers, voodoo style elf zombies, political vampires, deep amorphous extra-dimensional destruction blob anyone? Paranoia, from drugs, magic, sex (we're nerds, you know what I'm talking about), spells and madness. Necromancers that drain the life from their living victims so that they can cast more or just cerebral horror caused by the imminent threat of unimaginably powerful demons, deities or supernatural entities.

I like a little bit of everything in a campaign, I'm really just trying to create a more modern indepth, but easy in play, general old school fantasy game, I guess, the era was an accident, I started with renaissance, but it evolved into something more political and philosophical in play, without losing it's "Let's kick some butt!" attitude.