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Hi everyone!

Sorry it's been a while since I've been able to post on this thread, but the ideas weren't flowing the way I wanted them to until yesterday. The groundwork for the Sea of Dust Setting is starting to come together in my twisted little brain, and I can start posting the ideas. Here they are!

Be well in all things,
Rave

Somebloke wrote:

Tieflings make terrible housekeepers.

They can scrub and scrub but the smell of brimstone never quite fades.

LOL!!

While the actual core-campaign/quests I have figured out yet (I prefer to develop the game after my players have their characters made). I do have some ideas for set pieces/the world.

The World: Faerun (PoL version)

After the Spellplague and the Breaking of the World. Faerun and the Sword Coast in-particular has fallen into darkness. The great City-States have grown xenophobic and isolated, few villages and towns swear any allegiance to their "ruling body."

With the breaking down of the governing bodies of Faerun much darkness and danger has creeped into once safe areas. Villages, keeps and whole cities have been swallowed up in the ages since the Breaking, leaving only trace memories behind.

The Host Tower of The Arcane in Luskan lies in disrepair with the disappearance of many wizards and trade coming to a almost complete stand-still.

Even mighty Waterdeep has felt the wrath of this new-age. Its once mighty walls have crumbled, patched up by the loosest of wooden supports. Its once well-maintained trade routes crumble and break between the growing weeds.

Little is known of Neverwinter, since it closed its doors to all trade and people. This caused the collapse of Port Llast who fell to the darkness without support from Neverwinter or Luskan.

The Player's World:

I plan/hope to have the characters start off in a small town, its borders defending by a militia and makeshift defences. It has stood better then others but still feels the strain. Some-event (dependent on who the characters are) will lead them out into the world.

There they will face, the ruins of the past, the roaming bands of monsters, etc, etc. Very much a class dark-european fantasy game.

There will be very little magic in the world, with magical-items and magic-users being rarer. Magic-users those that do exist tend to hide their existence, with the growing fear of them after the Breaking. The general-population believing that the Spellplague brought the Breaking and is the fault of magic-users meddling in the Arcane.

Wild-magic however is more abundant, thanks to the Spellplague and has twisted and changed areas of land. Whole towns and their population have been warped by this wild-magic. I may possibly have sorcerers be slightly more common then wizards thanks to this wild-magic. In my world, a sorcerer will be someone who survived full-contact with wild-magic and was able to contain and manage it without twisting/destroying her.

Most of the game will be very much a run-and-gun affair with the players seemingly barely making through tough-encounters and soon having to rest, but rest in their blood-stained armour wary of new threats lurking in the darkness.

Scenes:

So far I only have one scene I really wish to have in the game. It is inspired by one of my favourite childhood movies: The Last Unicorn. At a point in the game, they will come across a road-side carnival (a almost unknown occurance in this world). There they see all manor of strange-beasts in cages, with gruff men in armour carrying spears and pikes standing guard.

They meet the owner a old-women, who has seen much (relatively so) of the world. She has collected these beasts, because she believes by finding and trapping the beasts that haunt the lands, she can trap and contain her own fear of them.

And yeah that is my world so far...