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<blockquote data-quote="QuietBrowser" data-source="post: 7016398" data-attributes="member: 6855057"><p>Strictly speaking, Malebolge originates from Dante's Inferno as the name of the 8th Circle of Hell. It has also been used in, amongst other roleplaying games, Dungeons & Dragons as part of Baator, Pathfinder as part of Hell, and one of the Circles of Hell in Mongoose Publishing's "Infernum", a D20 indy game revolving around the idea of playing a soul-eating demon in a Dante's Inferno meets Doom meets Conan inspired hell.</p><p></p><p>Thusly, it was the most appropriate name I could come up with off the top of my head for a setting so ravaged and post-apocalyptic as this.</p><p></p><p>Moving on to another topic...</p><p></p><p>Which of these things would folks be most interested in seeing developed?</p><p>* More racial gazetteers?</p><p>* Concepts for monsters unique to this world?</p><p>* An outline of magitek - boomsticks, shredderblades, beamers, balewhips, etc?</p><p>* Textual mapping (aka the "territory gazetter" thing I teased at in my last post)?</p><p></p><p>How much attention do folks think I should pay to crunch-related ideas based on this setting? Like, I've got a bevvy of possible caster subclasses I want to expand upon and develop, but should I find niches for them in this setting as well?</p><p></p><p>Finally... I can't help but wonder about my list of races. I mean, the kind of settings that inspired this, there's a lot of races running around, even if only a few of them are actually "major players". Should I maybe go over the complete race list I see in my head and maybe consider trimming back the family tree, so to speak?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="QuietBrowser, post: 7016398, member: 6855057"] Strictly speaking, Malebolge originates from Dante's Inferno as the name of the 8th Circle of Hell. It has also been used in, amongst other roleplaying games, Dungeons & Dragons as part of Baator, Pathfinder as part of Hell, and one of the Circles of Hell in Mongoose Publishing's "Infernum", a D20 indy game revolving around the idea of playing a soul-eating demon in a Dante's Inferno meets Doom meets Conan inspired hell. Thusly, it was the most appropriate name I could come up with off the top of my head for a setting so ravaged and post-apocalyptic as this. Moving on to another topic... Which of these things would folks be most interested in seeing developed? * More racial gazetteers? * Concepts for monsters unique to this world? * An outline of magitek - boomsticks, shredderblades, beamers, balewhips, etc? * Textual mapping (aka the "territory gazetter" thing I teased at in my last post)? How much attention do folks think I should pay to crunch-related ideas based on this setting? Like, I've got a bevvy of possible caster subclasses I want to expand upon and develop, but should I find niches for them in this setting as well? Finally... I can't help but wonder about my list of races. I mean, the kind of settings that inspired this, there's a lot of races running around, even if only a few of them are actually "major players". Should I maybe go over the complete race list I see in my head and maybe consider trimming back the family tree, so to speak? [/QUOTE]
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