I'm looking for a "island's in the sky" sort of setting.

[ZippoMoon]

Anyone know where I can find one?

[Big Fau]

Sharn, City of Towers fits the bill (Eberron-specific, and it's a single city instead of a setting), and there's a country in that same setting that has several floating islands (Aundair IIRC).

[DeltaEmil]

What do you specifically mean?

A setting that has flying islands? A setting that is only made of flying islands? Do the flying islands have to be in the prime material plane?

The Elemental Plane of Air, the Positive Energy and the Negative Energy Plane and Acheron have flying islands (Acheron has flying dices with infinite goblinoid armies fighting against infinite orc armies - which doesn't make much sense with core D&D, since orcs and their god Gruumsh aren't lawful evil anymore, like they used to be).

[ZippoMoon]

What do you specifically mean?

A setting that has flying islands? A setting that is only made of flying islands? Do the flying islands have to be in the prime material plane?

The Elemental Plane of Air, the Positive Energy and the Negative Energy Plane and Acheron have flying islands (Acheron has flying dices with infinite goblinoid armies fighting against infinite orc armies - which doesn't make much sense with core D&D, since orcs and their god Gruumsh aren't lawful evil anymore, like they used to be).

Nothing but and prime.

[Asheram]

Ptolus (http://dungeons.wikia.com/wiki/DnDWiki:Ptolus). With their genuine non-magical anti-gravity mountains. xD

Edit: It's not really the focus of the setting, but they are there.

[Maginomicon]

I know exactly what you're looking for... maybe... although it's not in the prime material plane.

It's called the "Plane of Radiance", and it's detailed in an article in Dragon Magazine #321 starting on p64 in an article called "The Limitless Light".

http://gyazo.com/b0abe5fed540dd1de28bc18816b64e99.png

[ZippoMoon]

The Plane of Radiance is good, but something with a bit more meat to it would be nice.

[Tvtyrant]

I'm currently DMing a custom built one I made that is exactly like you are saying. The question is whether you want lots of small "skylands" or big "skytinents." A bunch of smaller flying islands is going to have a really different feeling from a few big ones.

Big continents are going to be mostly about the politics of the continent itself, with some trade with the others being a profitable aside. With smaller islands it is either total isolation or being connected to trade routes, so they are going to naturally feel different. If you use the Spelljammer books you can see this same dichotomy, where space ports are effectively devoted to space politics and planets are inward looking.

[ZippoMoon]

Like I said I want a mix of both big and small. if you could send me what you have that would be great!

[ZippoMoon]

Over do BUMP!

[Tvtyrant]

Like I said I want a mix of both big and small. if you could send me what you have that would be great!

Here are the two I have worked on. Skies over Atlantis I have been running for about 4 months now and is going well, the other one got abandoned for lack of interest (also I discovered E6.)

Skies over Atlantis (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=302747)

Sky Worlds (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=184303)

[ZippoMoon]

Here are the two I have worked on. Skies over Atlantis I have been running for about 4 months now and is going well, the other one got abandoned for lack of interest (also I discovered E6.)

Skies over Atlantis (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=302747)

Sky Worlds (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=184303)


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[BWR]

Check out "Top Ballista" and the Kingdom of Floating Ar (part of the Alphatian Empire) for the Mystara setting.
Here (http://bruce-heard.blogspot.no/2013/01/Ar01.html)'s a part of a series of articles detailing it, though the original info from the "Dawn of the Empires" boxed set is probably a better starting point.

[Yajirobe]

Forgotten Realms on the height of the Netheril empire?

[sleepyphoenixx]

There was a Dreamcast RPG called Skies of Arcadia that had a world of floating islands with skyships and skypirates and stuff. You can find a fairly detailed summary of the setting online, including maps, empires, history etc. that wouldn't require all that much effort to turn into a playable setting.

[ZippoMoon]

There was a Dreamcast RPG called Skies of Arcadia that had a world of floating islands with skyships and skypirates and stuff. You can find a fairly detailed summary of the setting online, including maps, empires, history etc. that wouldn't require all that much effort to turn into a playable setting.

I got the Gamecube port and I LOVED it! But as much as I want to zip around in a stolen Valuan warship, no such Pathfinder conversion exists. :smallfrown:

[sleepyphoenixx]

I got the Gamecube port and I LOVED it! But as much as I want to zip around in a stolen Valuan warship, no such Pathfinder conversion exists. :smallfrown:

The hard part, the world building, is already done. Turning it into a functioning setting requires little more than reading up on the fluff (found on several fansites), deciding on a starting point for your players and statting up some skyships (or just using normal ship stats for simplicities sake). You get plot hooks practically handed to you from the setting all by itself. Building a homebrew setting from scratch is a lot more work.