Describe your homebrew in one sentence.

Tonguez

A suffusion of yellow

• Feb 16, 2005

• #61

Piratecat said:

You are really, really going to want to pick up Northern Crown: New World Adventure (or something like that) when it's published later this year by Atlas Games. It's by our own Dougmander, it's a lot like you describe, and it absolutely kicks ass.


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Gotta agree - I was lucky enough to have downloaded some of the Septrionalis stuff back when it was still a free online homebrew and even then it was awesome. That it's being reviewed and repackaged as a commercial product should be evidence enough that Northern Crown is going to be a must have setting

 

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Samuel Leming

First Post

• Feb 16, 2005

• #62

One sentance description?

Sure:

It doesn't suck!
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For a slightly more toothsome high concept description:

Steampunk spelljammer amid the inhabited moons orbiting the jovian homeworld of the flumphs.
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And to think that this gem was rejected by the WOTC setting search...

Sam

 

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Storyteller01

First Post

• Feb 16, 2005

• #63

GM house ruled the universe, and the players have to fix it.

 

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Elder-Basilisk

First Post

• Feb 16, 2005

• #64

An Arthur-like king consolidates his rule in the golden age of a fairy tale land; he contends, not only with the forces of the necromancer king, but also with his own subjects who wish to continue living in the ways of their fathers.

More swords. Less sorcery.

 

Kelleris

Explorer

• Feb 16, 2005

• #65

Hrm, a run-on for me too:

Dromus is an enormously large and cosmopolitan city on the frontier, where the planes of Caelwdyste (aristocratic viking swashbucklers in the arctic wastes), Tila'kun (monastic fortresses engaging in usually-benign neglect of primitive islanders in an oceanic paradise awash with positive energy), Kelluna (the larger-than-life home of the Proxies of the gods and the city-states they funnel the souls of the dead through), the Imperium Mechanus (huge, relentlessly bureaucratic empire of high technology and little magic), and Yesheveran (surface-dwelling demihumans form the unwitting market for powerful drow mercantile concerns) border the asanity of the timeless Far Realms in an uneasy peace; would-be heroes find themselves in a place where everyone is part of some conspiracy, change occurs at a bewildering pace, and all the clues are cryptic and multiply interpretible.

Eh, sounds better expanded into proper notes.

 

MoogleEmpMog

First Post

• Feb 16, 2005

• #66

Amidst the ruins of kingdom shattered by civil war, elite special agents of the crown battle against a steampunk superpower to the north and the remnants of the eldritch empire from the mists of pre-human antiquity.

Pretty much Call of Cthulu meets the Iron Kingdoms with a kingdom full of political intrigue, espionage, assassination and double-crossing caught between the two.

 

Kesh

First Post

• Feb 16, 2005

• #67

Ryeth

I suppose the best way I can turn it into a single, short sentence is:

A young fantasy world where an ice age is beginning, humanoids war for the remaining resources, the dead are rising, the gods are walking upon the world, and Things From Beyond are beginning to take notice.

The longer, run-on version is:

The world of Ryeth is growing colder every year, while the dead rise from their graves and the Great Spirits have been seen in the lands of men again... human wizards, gnoll fanatics and elven warriors battle one another as food becomes scarce and ice steals the land away, while the dwarves hoard what little metal can be found in their mountain strongholds and the fox-people slip from the shadows to take whatever they wish... all while the wise and the mad whisper that there are other, older Things returning from the dark sky, and they are not pleased with what their children, the Great Spirits, have created in their absence...

 

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jester47

First Post

• Feb 16, 2005

• #68

For you Martha Stewart like criminals:

Start with the Forgotten Realms soaked in a grim Warhammer marinade, mix with equal parts smoke of Lankhmar; add 2 eyes of ningauble, a tentacle of Sheelba (this recipe avoids Rime Isle cheese, add at your own peril!), spice heavily with Cimmerian Blood Salt, stygian Black Lotus, and Aquilonian Road Dust; on a discworld shaped baking pan arrange in a clever Cugel-like fashion, decorate with the eyes of the overworld; insert into your oven of Kadath and bake for 3 eons, remove from oven, cut with Stormbringer (Blackrazor will do in a pinch) and serve up in an inspirational wilderlands hexagon fashion.

Derivative? Yeah, but since it starts with a CS that is stereotyped, this makes it new.
As for coming up with names of potions that may or may not describe their use: Priceless. Consider that stolen and also applied to all single use magic items Henry!

Aaron.

 

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Bigwilly

First Post

• Feb 16, 2005

• #69

On hold possibly for several years due to players wanting to play through WLD.

Bigwilly

 

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STARP_President

First Post

• Feb 16, 2005

• #70

A ship full of misfits sails round a giant archipelago looking for trouble and usually finding it.

Pretty much covers it, I think.