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BillTheManiac wrote:

Do it! Quick!

My setting for my next campaign is very un-PoL. It was created by some system where people take turns building the world. It has splotches of light and darkness, and humans aren't the dominant race, and drow are good and elves are evil. It also has grey splotches where monsters roam. It will probably focus on negotiation, as the dwarven lands are occupied by a race of demon-tainted humans following a snake-themed demon lord, and the angels of the world are trying to find aid from good nations to save it.

It might be a 4th ed campaign, it might not, based on how long my current campaign takes. By my calculations, should be over right around 4th edition, under best circumstances. So it will probably be a 4th edition campaign.

So the players travel from nation to nation looking for allies?

I always wanted to do a travel campaign, ever since I re-watched Monkey Magic.

... and it came to pass that the gods from above fought the gods from underneath for supremacy of the world of Eiliath. In all their zealous ferocity, they forgot about that which they fought over and the wrath visited on each other spilled over onto this world and sent Eiliath into darkness...

Basically a meteor hit the world, which then caused earthquakes, tidal waves, huge dust cloud which then cause a new ice age, mass death, plagues, etc... Pretty much a bunch of natural disasters. The gods are the stars and their light going out from the dust cloud was considered their life force dying. By the end, only the moon and the sun was even faintly visible. (Luckily they are the 2 main deities.)

This way every race is affected by the same thing and it would take many, many years to recover from such a disaster.

This is the event that caused the Age of Darkness. Before this, there is an Age of Myth and Legend, but little is known from that era. I will be starting up the characters as they will hopefully be going from the end of the Age of Darkness into the Age of Enlightenment. Well actually the age of darkness has been over for awhile, the races have been expanding, rediscovering each other, the world, and that which is in it. It is still a dangerous place, and many places stay secluded.

Not every area got hit really bad, though some areas were completely laid to waste. It was these pockets that were not as bad off where life survived and then eventually thrived again. These pockets are where the gods protected their children from the worst of their "war."

I am placing the town, Dunlop, where the players will be coming from near an escarpment. This escarpment was caused when one of the gods from underneath tried to force his way to the above. I also have a large forest where the elves , fey, and eldarin can come from. The escarpment is where the dwarves will be found. I can also place any other creature needed in the area and come up with logical reasons as to why they would be there. I really haven't figured out what to do with the Tieflings yet, though I probably won't start them out as a pc race. The thing I am thinking about doing with them is that they were the last great race that had a world empire before the darkness came. Since they had become pretty nihilistic, hedonistic, etc... Their race gets blamed for what happened especially since they seemed to be aligned with the powers from underneath.

Most people will see the war of the gods as a cleansing of the world by the good gods to get rid of the evil that was taking over the world. A kill them all and let the gods sort out their own type of thing.

Well, this is just a beginning thought process. I am still not 100% sure on what I will be doing. I think there may be a few trains of thought in this little missive.

One of these days, I'm going to run this one:

The Warriors

I'm really excited about the module-world nature of the Core Setting. I'm thinking of buying up some of the classic old-school modules and a smattering of the new adventures that always bothered me for feeling so disconnected from any particular setting and using them as the basis for my campaign.

I was going to start it in the region from Dragondown Grotto, in the city of Dragondown from which the archmages of old struck down the dracolich that had arisen to destroy them--crushing it's phylactery and tracking it to a lost series of caves where they put it to its end.

Skulking at the edges of this realm amid thick forest schemes the cowardly green dragon Sekkatrix in her hidden caverns, attended by her growing cohort of ogre followers and her basilisks which she breeds as terrifying guardian beasts.

The area is bordered by an gray ash waste to the northeast, skies always roiling with black clouds and lightningstorms, an area beyond the ken of any who live in Dragondown--except that it is key to the ancient history of the whole region, but year after year it draws its share of historians and arcanists who trek across the vast and threatening wilderness in the hopes of penetrating this great mystery. Most either stay or return home frustrated. Many never return at all.