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2018-03-26, 03:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Worlds inspired by paintings
Howdy friends,
I want to ask for help in outsourcing my new campaign. You guys are super creative and cooler than Reddit so I came here
Did you ever play Super Mario 64? You know how all the levels are paintings that you jump into and they're worlds that you can explore and whatnot? I'm essentially stealing that idea.
The party starts in one painting - an idyllic mountain village. Then some generic evil (Probably a dragon) will come and destroy their town because it wants to conquer all the paintings. The party will find a means to escape the painting and come out into the real world, where they can explore the other paintings.
I want to let the other players DM, which is why I thought this format would allow everyone to be as creative as they feel without any restriction on having a cohesive story. In other words, there won't be any lore-breaking because each painting can have its own lore, and it's own agents of evil, without conflicting with another. But ya never know how consistently the others will be capable of DMing so I want to have a backlog of worlds.
So I'm asking for 2 things to ease my workload here (since I run another campaign). A) paintings that can be inspiring to look like the portal to another world, and B) some kind of original concept, premise, or backstory to go along with the paintings.
Either or, preferably both :bigsmile: I'll even make an effort to come back and give the recap on what transpired in your world!I'm working for the Empire. But don't worry… I'm not going to garrote you!
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2018-03-26, 05:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Worlds inspired by paintings
This is the coolest thing I have heard in a long time!
For a “frame” (haha) maybe these paintings could be gateways into planes. Or parts of planes. Idk. Something to do with alternate realities.
I will start looking for a cool painting that inspires me XD
I’ll probably have a few that I could pitch at you lolA world without stories, is just empty space
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2018-03-26, 05:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-03-26, 05:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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How does this strike your fancy? I’m a little nostalgic
For this game, and I think this bayou setting could lead to some interesting storytelling. I’d imagine more undead themed baddies here. Especially cuz of this
A backstory could be that this place was built by survivors of this boat wreck. Once a makeshift place for survival. Now a small community lives there. But live in fear of the souls of those who didn’t survive that crash. Causing the undead to appear in this area.Last edited by Beeba17; 2018-03-26 at 06:04 PM.
A world without stories, is just empty space
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2018-03-26, 06:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Worlds inspired by paintings
Last edited by Bohandas; 2018-03-26 at 06:07 PM.
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2018-03-26, 06:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Worlds inspired by paintings
Spoiler: some paintings
Would be a good ones.Awesome avatar (Kothar, paladin of Tlacua) by Linkele!
Originally Posted by William Shakespeare, King Lear, IV.i.46Originally Posted by Howard Tayler
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2018-03-26, 07:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Worlds inspired by paintings
Escher's Print Gallery seems appropriate here, possibly as the hub level
http://im-possible.info/english/arti...ery/index.htmlLast edited by Bohandas; 2018-03-26 at 08:00 PM.
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2018-03-26, 07:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Worlds inspired by paintings
Spoiler
-Dali.
-Sergey Tyukanov.
-Bosch.
They are great :D
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2018-03-27, 11:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Worlds inspired by paintings
Let me know when you get to heavy metal album covers.
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2018-03-27, 12:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-03-27, 03:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Worlds inspired by paintings
How about some Canaletto:
Spoiler: Painting
Backstory should include political and romantic intrigue. (Crib from Casanova's memoirs.)
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2018-03-27, 07:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Worlds inspired by paintings
Why not Goya? I mean, they already keep popping up in video games all the time. Old gods devouring the new and witch covens are basically plots that write themselves.
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2018-03-28, 06:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Worlds inspired by paintings
You might consider not just the subject of the painting, but the art style as well. Like maybe the worlds themselves actually EXIST in whatever style it's painted in.
Like a high realism painting would be fairly normal, but go into a Picasso painting, and everything actually looks as strange as it was painted to look. And maybe the PCs are translated into the style too, when they go in.
Go into a modern abstract art piece, and you might suddenly have to deal with being a blue rectangle.