oxinabox
2009-09-11, 01:45 AM
So i'm fiddling around with a setting idea.
The defualt 4e setting ins Pinpricks of darkness, humanity only jst surviving in isolated pockets.
Alot of games i run/play are set in a Goldern Age, where humanity is triumphant, evil is found in the actions of humans, as much as in any invading army of orcs.
But this new setting idea i'm working on is far from that.
~12 generations ago, there was a great war, good vs evil, humanity and the races of the light vs the Cruel ones (something like WoT Trollocs).
at first the light ws crushed, villages whiped out in days, but bigger wall cities held out.
It was a time for Heros, and Heros came, many a legend of allied armies sweeping in to break seige at the nick of time, of Pessantfolk taking up arms and overcoming most fearsome of odds, to drive back there monsterous foes, would have been born.
Heros whoes bravery and courage, would have lived on in legend for generations.
Sages of wisdom, and mages of great might who drew the very element of the world, against there in human foes, would have been looked upun as saviors, brillaint lights against the darkeness.
The Ever approching darkness.
But in the end, it wasn't enough, and none lived to tell their tale.
Humanity was cushed, both in life and in spirit.
A generation died.
Over the next 300 years they were breed, not as slaves, but as cattle.
Language, skills, some say even hope was beaten out of them
as they had become little more than the animals their masters see them as.
But somehow, something in them persised, and now Hero's have come again.
Que the PC's
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Unorganised thoughts:
System: i'ld like to use P athfinder cos i'ld lkike to try it out, but porting almost anything players want from 3.5.
Fighters will get 4+Int skill points, and have listen and spot as class skills, never worked out how fighters can get buy with out them, explains why town guards are alwasy blind fools
The Herd , constists primairly of mongeral folk, - part human, part elf, part dwarf, part cat folk, part kender, part just about anything that can crossbreed with human.
But everynow and then there are throw backs,
Children who resemble the ancient pure bred races.
The PC's will proably come from these.
Handlers/Masters: humanity was taken over primairy by one race, (haven't descided what yet, any suggestions? i'm proably looking for somehting from a nonWoTC book, as i want something no ones seen before): these creatures are of brutish sentiance, and are referede to throughout this text as the master, the handlers, the cruel one etc.
Role of humanity: (when i say humanity i mean the mongel human/dwarf/elf/etc mix) the PC's will come from a group that are used as food - cattle.
Other (in differnt regeons maybe) may be used as slaves olr even as house pets.
Languages:
All PC's start proffient in the Herd Language - A corrupted version of the language that there handles used, herd languages vary dramatically between herds, as differnt parts of the Master's language was takens.
Those of surfienctly high interlect may have pick up the language of the handlers.
Thouse how have enough intellect to learn more may full up there language slots through in game learning latter.
Everyone begins illierate (and will proably die illiterate) humanity has lost the art of written word.
Magic:
as none can read wizards and archiviest are out as classes.
as are the rest of the tier 1 classes, the knowledge and rituals haven't been passed down.
The defualt 4e setting ins Pinpricks of darkness, humanity only jst surviving in isolated pockets.
Alot of games i run/play are set in a Goldern Age, where humanity is triumphant, evil is found in the actions of humans, as much as in any invading army of orcs.
But this new setting idea i'm working on is far from that.
~12 generations ago, there was a great war, good vs evil, humanity and the races of the light vs the Cruel ones (something like WoT Trollocs).
at first the light ws crushed, villages whiped out in days, but bigger wall cities held out.
It was a time for Heros, and Heros came, many a legend of allied armies sweeping in to break seige at the nick of time, of Pessantfolk taking up arms and overcoming most fearsome of odds, to drive back there monsterous foes, would have been born.
Heros whoes bravery and courage, would have lived on in legend for generations.
Sages of wisdom, and mages of great might who drew the very element of the world, against there in human foes, would have been looked upun as saviors, brillaint lights against the darkeness.
The Ever approching darkness.
But in the end, it wasn't enough, and none lived to tell their tale.
Humanity was cushed, both in life and in spirit.
A generation died.
Over the next 300 years they were breed, not as slaves, but as cattle.
Language, skills, some say even hope was beaten out of them
as they had become little more than the animals their masters see them as.
But somehow, something in them persised, and now Hero's have come again.
Que the PC's
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
================================================
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Unorganised thoughts:
System: i'ld like to use P athfinder cos i'ld lkike to try it out, but porting almost anything players want from 3.5.
Fighters will get 4+Int skill points, and have listen and spot as class skills, never worked out how fighters can get buy with out them, explains why town guards are alwasy blind fools
The Herd , constists primairly of mongeral folk, - part human, part elf, part dwarf, part cat folk, part kender, part just about anything that can crossbreed with human.
But everynow and then there are throw backs,
Children who resemble the ancient pure bred races.
The PC's will proably come from these.
Handlers/Masters: humanity was taken over primairy by one race, (haven't descided what yet, any suggestions? i'm proably looking for somehting from a nonWoTC book, as i want something no ones seen before): these creatures are of brutish sentiance, and are referede to throughout this text as the master, the handlers, the cruel one etc.
Role of humanity: (when i say humanity i mean the mongel human/dwarf/elf/etc mix) the PC's will come from a group that are used as food - cattle.
Other (in differnt regeons maybe) may be used as slaves olr even as house pets.
Languages:
All PC's start proffient in the Herd Language - A corrupted version of the language that there handles used, herd languages vary dramatically between herds, as differnt parts of the Master's language was takens.
Those of surfienctly high interlect may have pick up the language of the handlers.
Thouse how have enough intellect to learn more may full up there language slots through in game learning latter.
Everyone begins illierate (and will proably die illiterate) humanity has lost the art of written word.
Magic:
as none can read wizards and archiviest are out as classes.
as are the rest of the tier 1 classes, the knowledge and rituals haven't been passed down.