ChrisMcDee
2007-07-18, 06:38 AM
So everything has to be created. Those who created existence itself were known by many names to those like you or me. The Gods, The Creators, little is known so far as details go. There were more than one of them and they are responsible for our existence, the rest seems a bit trivial.
The first design was a horrible failure. The designers quarreled over everything and before they knew it existence was crammed with an impossible mess of a thousand different ideas all trying to coexist. In a short amount of time everyone had something to complain about so it was agreed that a fresh start was in order. Despite most everyone's best efforts a design just couldn't be agreed upon. What was agreed was that it would be best if everyone just made their own designs and kept them seperate. Of course keeping them seperated didn't last long and that's how we have got where we are today.
Travelling through Degrees isn't all that difficult, at least for someone from the Tenth like myself. Sure it has its risks but so does everything. A lot of numbers got thrown around at first but I'm happy with what they're all saying now. One-Hundred-and-Ninty. That sounds about right.
- B.S. Nyson, The One-Hundred and Ninety Degrees: A Guide
For a little while now I've been working on the idea of a campaign setting based around a giant loop of different worlds, each one being created by a different God after their attempt at creating one existence failed. These are similar to parallel dimensions or planes and there are ways for individuals to move from one to another. Each of these make up a Degree and there are 190 of them known.
My inspiration for each Degree came from thinking of the God that created it. Individually these gods aren't quite the perfect beings you might think. I think of the process of creating a world as being similar to when you first open up the level editor for a PC game. Some of the Gods were focused and created these gigantic Degrees filled with life and others had shorter attention spans, instead seeing how big a mountain of burning rock they could build before hitting "Save" and quitting out.
When I last mentioned this here some months back somebody told me 190 was too many. By my count 182 of the Degrees now have their brief descriptions :smallwink:
For now this small blurb is all I want for the majority of the Degrees. I want the DM to be able to interpret them as he sees fit and to see many of them get fleshed out through actual play rather than through me sitting here at the PC.
Seeing as there are just eight Degrees left I thought I'd treat the wonderful inhabitants of this forum with the opportunity to add their own worlds in there. Use the existing Degrees as a guide to the tone of the setting and contribute away!
The wiki is HERE (http://degrees.pbwiki.com)and the list of Degrees is on the front page. If you want to create a page for more detail on the Degree then use one of the existing Degree pages as a template, such as this one, this one or this one. If you like the look of one of the existing Degrees that doesn't already have a page then feel free to flesh it out!
Look forward to seeing what you guys can come up with :smallsmile:
Wiki Here (http://degrees.pbwiki.com)
Password: December21
The first design was a horrible failure. The designers quarreled over everything and before they knew it existence was crammed with an impossible mess of a thousand different ideas all trying to coexist. In a short amount of time everyone had something to complain about so it was agreed that a fresh start was in order. Despite most everyone's best efforts a design just couldn't be agreed upon. What was agreed was that it would be best if everyone just made their own designs and kept them seperate. Of course keeping them seperated didn't last long and that's how we have got where we are today.
Travelling through Degrees isn't all that difficult, at least for someone from the Tenth like myself. Sure it has its risks but so does everything. A lot of numbers got thrown around at first but I'm happy with what they're all saying now. One-Hundred-and-Ninty. That sounds about right.
- B.S. Nyson, The One-Hundred and Ninety Degrees: A Guide
For a little while now I've been working on the idea of a campaign setting based around a giant loop of different worlds, each one being created by a different God after their attempt at creating one existence failed. These are similar to parallel dimensions or planes and there are ways for individuals to move from one to another. Each of these make up a Degree and there are 190 of them known.
My inspiration for each Degree came from thinking of the God that created it. Individually these gods aren't quite the perfect beings you might think. I think of the process of creating a world as being similar to when you first open up the level editor for a PC game. Some of the Gods were focused and created these gigantic Degrees filled with life and others had shorter attention spans, instead seeing how big a mountain of burning rock they could build before hitting "Save" and quitting out.
When I last mentioned this here some months back somebody told me 190 was too many. By my count 182 of the Degrees now have their brief descriptions :smallwink:
For now this small blurb is all I want for the majority of the Degrees. I want the DM to be able to interpret them as he sees fit and to see many of them get fleshed out through actual play rather than through me sitting here at the PC.
Seeing as there are just eight Degrees left I thought I'd treat the wonderful inhabitants of this forum with the opportunity to add their own worlds in there. Use the existing Degrees as a guide to the tone of the setting and contribute away!
The wiki is HERE (http://degrees.pbwiki.com)and the list of Degrees is on the front page. If you want to create a page for more detail on the Degree then use one of the existing Degree pages as a template, such as this one, this one or this one. If you like the look of one of the existing Degrees that doesn't already have a page then feel free to flesh it out!
Look forward to seeing what you guys can come up with :smallsmile:
Wiki Here (http://degrees.pbwiki.com)
Password: December21