Zeuel
2014-08-12, 03:06 AM
...and I would definitely appreciate some help from people. As far as setting goes, I'm not entirely sure if I want to start from scratch or if maybe I wanted to take the Forgotten Realms, fast forward them a couple thousand years, and drop them into space. Like maybe there could be organizations like the Space Harpers or the Space Lord's Alliance or the Red Wizards of Space. Well not named literally that, but it could possibly be a lot of the same organizations and in some rare cases same NPCs in a more futuristic setting. My other idea was to just have a tabula rasa campaign world and pretty much give PCs carte blanche in writing their background and then take the ideas from the background to write the world.
When it came to equipment I was planning on using roughly the same mechanics but reskinning everything. Full plate would still give you +8 AC and no dex bonus but it might look more like Space Marine armor while half plate might basically just be a flak jacket made out of more futuristic materials. For weapons maybe a long sword is a 40k-esque chain sword or if the player wants it's more like a light saber(although that would be a pretty awesome Eldritch Knight/Blade pact Warlock specific weapon :P ) they could do that as well. I'm not quite sure if I want to add new equipment like maybe a grenade option that is basically cantrip level in power and uses your whole action(so no throwing 4 grenades as a high level Fighter) but requires martial weapon proficiency and Dex+proficiency to set the save DC. I was maybe considering putting some of the power in the player's hands and giving a starting XP incentive for those doing an incredible job of reskinning things(whether it was equipment, classes, races, backgrounds, etc) in a very believable way.
What are some other ideas I could try and incorporate to give a more Science Fantasy feel?
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ScienceFantasy?from=Main.ScienceFictionVersusFanta sy
When it came to equipment I was planning on using roughly the same mechanics but reskinning everything. Full plate would still give you +8 AC and no dex bonus but it might look more like Space Marine armor while half plate might basically just be a flak jacket made out of more futuristic materials. For weapons maybe a long sword is a 40k-esque chain sword or if the player wants it's more like a light saber(although that would be a pretty awesome Eldritch Knight/Blade pact Warlock specific weapon :P ) they could do that as well. I'm not quite sure if I want to add new equipment like maybe a grenade option that is basically cantrip level in power and uses your whole action(so no throwing 4 grenades as a high level Fighter) but requires martial weapon proficiency and Dex+proficiency to set the save DC. I was maybe considering putting some of the power in the player's hands and giving a starting XP incentive for those doing an incredible job of reskinning things(whether it was equipment, classes, races, backgrounds, etc) in a very believable way.
What are some other ideas I could try and incorporate to give a more Science Fantasy feel?
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ScienceFantasy?from=Main.ScienceFictionVersusFanta sy