Connors Mini Setting 1

Connors Mini Setting 1

Connors 17 Sep 2019 13:09

Okay, I have an idea for a setting. I am going to work through some of the details here to show my process. Feel free to join in.

I don't have a name for this place yet. I will rename this thread when I do.

(I am debating whether to start putting settings on World Anvil, or just continue on my Settings Sites)?

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World Hook - Sins & Virtues

Connors 17 Sep 2019 13:20

Each world should have a hook. A big idea that sets it apart.

This one is the world revolves around the 7 Virtues & 7 Sins. Not sure I will even call them that, but I am going to have 7 opposing concepts that govern everything.

No alignment, but in place of this will be tracking your position on 7 trackers. (I did something similar for Kage ages ago).

I have ideas for extra features like BGs in Ravnica as well as organisations there. So as you make your way towards Generosity (for eg) you get certain boons along the way. I will also include drawbacks too.

I have so many ideas around these 7 opposing forces. There will be patrons/exarchs of each force. These will serve as the 'deities' of the world. Divine magic will be based upon these forces. I might even make ALL magic inherent on them and sort spells into lists based upon these forces rather than class. Or I will keep it simple and just add domains for each ;) (But I really want to do a setting with spell groupings done by something other than class). I have 3E domains for both. Pathfinder also had some 'sin magic'. I can't remember what that was, but might look into it. :)

So, I don't even have a physical setting in mind yet. Ideas welcome. What do you think of the hook?

So, your PC will try to be a paragon of one (maybe a few) virtues or sins. There is so much design space around this.

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Re: World Hook - Sins & Virtues

Vamprey 18 Sep 2019 12:03

Sounds interesting, I seem to recall discussing something like this a long time ago, maybe when we were coming up with the idea for taint in Kage, or maybe just another random conversation.

Anyway, I don't know that you need to do a great big, whole world type map for something like this, maybe something substantial but that anyone picking it up could easily draw something and put it somewhere else (ie the world doesn't really matter to much it's more the concepts driving the world that matter.

So the world would in essence have 14 deities, so I am assuming there would be 14 different spell lists, one for each? There was a book series out a while back, I think by Mragaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (of Dragonlance)called the "Rose of the Prophet" where there were 20 gods and like on a d20, where each number is in a triangle, these gods each had 3 different aspects (virtues/sins if you will), this kind of reminds me of that a little.

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Re: World Hook - Sins & Virtues

blairos 19 Sep 2019 23:37

Maybe give it a try on Anvil to see how it goes as you start building? You're never going to know until you actually start doing a world there.

Interesting idea. I've had some similar thoughts with different magic. When you look at all the fantasy literature, none of them ever follow the D&D style spell access (maybe except for those actually written in the D&D worlds).

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