Bryan1108
2012-11-16, 07:35 PM
I've never actually built a world/setting before. My friends and I were talking though about World War II done on a world where magic existed and technology never progressed beyond D&D standard.
There was a novel, "Operation Chaos" that did something similar but I didn't care much for it.
As long as I am replicating this era, I think that I'd rather use this to play Pulp Adventures and use WWII as a backdrop.
Like i said, I've never built a world before and I don't really know where to start. Part of the problem is that it seems like I might already be basically done.
I have a pretty good idea of what Earth circa 1938 looked like. Society and fashion and the like stay pretty close but obviously there will be some changes but again, they seem pretty obvious.
Cleric PCs would mostly be Christian, Jewish or Muslim(?).
I'd use Airships and the Lightning Rail from the Eberron setting to replace planes and trains. Smaller fighter planes could be replaced by riders on griffons, pegasi or any number of winged mounts.
Guns get replaced by swords. Cars get replaced by horses, carts and carriages. Magic would help some but without refrigeration, cities would have to be smaller. I figure that there is probably an Underworld/Underdark full of monsters so those cities would have to be walled.
I have a bunch of advance classes for D20 Modern that are for the Pulp genre. It would probably be dirt simple to convert to 3.5
I don't know. Am I oversimplifying this or did I just land on a really easy project for my first build?
There was a novel, "Operation Chaos" that did something similar but I didn't care much for it.
As long as I am replicating this era, I think that I'd rather use this to play Pulp Adventures and use WWII as a backdrop.
Like i said, I've never built a world before and I don't really know where to start. Part of the problem is that it seems like I might already be basically done.
I have a pretty good idea of what Earth circa 1938 looked like. Society and fashion and the like stay pretty close but obviously there will be some changes but again, they seem pretty obvious.
Cleric PCs would mostly be Christian, Jewish or Muslim(?).
I'd use Airships and the Lightning Rail from the Eberron setting to replace planes and trains. Smaller fighter planes could be replaced by riders on griffons, pegasi or any number of winged mounts.
Guns get replaced by swords. Cars get replaced by horses, carts and carriages. Magic would help some but without refrigeration, cities would have to be smaller. I figure that there is probably an Underworld/Underdark full of monsters so those cities would have to be walled.
I have a bunch of advance classes for D20 Modern that are for the Pulp genre. It would probably be dirt simple to convert to 3.5
I don't know. Am I oversimplifying this or did I just land on a really easy project for my first build?