Draconi Redfir
2018-05-28, 03:10 AM
Okay so long and short of it, i'm on-again off-again working on a low-magic setting, some spells will be cut, wizards don't exist, dragon's aren't smart, there's only one god, and the only known planes are his realm and the prime material / main world / whatever you want to call it. If there are any others, i haven't figured them out yet.
this does bring me to a crossroads when it comes to Gnomes though. Being Fey creatures, they're innately magical, something that is intended to be pretty / fairly rare in this setting, and Fey are often connected to the feywild / some non-material plane. So i'm just kinda stuck, Should Gnomes be in this setting?
On one hand, i've got all the other races kind of set up into evolutionary families of three, Humans, Elves and Orcs are close relatives, Goblins, Hobgoblins and Bugbears are closely related, and if i didn't include Gnomes, then Dwarves and Halflings would be in a cluster of two rather then the apparent pattern of Three. It's not the end of the world, but it would be nice to keep the pattern going. I'd also hate to turn down someone wanting to play one specific core race if all the others exist as well.
On the OTHER hand, i don't really know if Gnomes or the Fey would really... fit? in the world? Like what are Fey really? Everything i know suggests they are very magical and very extra-planar, something that doesn't apply to most things in this setting. Is it even possible for Fey to exist as a concept without them? Could they just be mysterious cryptids? or are they too intertwined with their magic to exist without it? Given the various magical racial spells, abilities, and traits that Gnomes have, i'm not sure if i COULD have them around in this setting without feeling like they're breaking the rules altogether.
on the GRIPPING hand, i could always say they were around a long time ago, or just come from a different location in the world that was over-saturated with magic? Maybe some kind of valley where a powerful artifact got damaged and started leaking it's magic into the valley or something. a sort of fake-feywild or something idk.
what really defines the Fey? do you think Gnomes could find a place to fit in in a world where only those who are born with magic are able to wield it, and those born with it are intended to be exceptionally rare?
this does bring me to a crossroads when it comes to Gnomes though. Being Fey creatures, they're innately magical, something that is intended to be pretty / fairly rare in this setting, and Fey are often connected to the feywild / some non-material plane. So i'm just kinda stuck, Should Gnomes be in this setting?
On one hand, i've got all the other races kind of set up into evolutionary families of three, Humans, Elves and Orcs are close relatives, Goblins, Hobgoblins and Bugbears are closely related, and if i didn't include Gnomes, then Dwarves and Halflings would be in a cluster of two rather then the apparent pattern of Three. It's not the end of the world, but it would be nice to keep the pattern going. I'd also hate to turn down someone wanting to play one specific core race if all the others exist as well.
On the OTHER hand, i don't really know if Gnomes or the Fey would really... fit? in the world? Like what are Fey really? Everything i know suggests they are very magical and very extra-planar, something that doesn't apply to most things in this setting. Is it even possible for Fey to exist as a concept without them? Could they just be mysterious cryptids? or are they too intertwined with their magic to exist without it? Given the various magical racial spells, abilities, and traits that Gnomes have, i'm not sure if i COULD have them around in this setting without feeling like they're breaking the rules altogether.
on the GRIPPING hand, i could always say they were around a long time ago, or just come from a different location in the world that was over-saturated with magic? Maybe some kind of valley where a powerful artifact got damaged and started leaking it's magic into the valley or something. a sort of fake-feywild or something idk.
what really defines the Fey? do you think Gnomes could find a place to fit in in a world where only those who are born with magic are able to wield it, and those born with it are intended to be exceptionally rare?