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Importing 4e core assumptions into other settings? advice pls?
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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 6726794" data-attributes="member: 463"><p>I've had that.</p><p></p><p>Doctor:</p><p>"You baby is so pale! He needs a blood test!"</p><p></p><p>Me:</p><p>"We all look like that!"</p><p></p><p>He was actually less pale than the average newborn where I'm from (Belfast) - doctor was </p><p>London south-Asian or Afro-Caribbean and apparently she'd never seen a Celtic baby before.</p><p></p><p>On-topic:</p><p></p><p>I thought Varisia was pretty close to the 4e assumptions re world is ancient, civilised races </p><p>(PHB races) vs 'greenskins', etc. I guess there is a timeline issue re the vast time between the fall of the Runelords and the present day that gives plenty of space to include additional lesser empires. You could also emphasise the initial Cheliaxan colonisation wave, Varisia's equivalent to Nerath, for more recent ruins of forts, abandoned villages and suchlike, with plenty of opportunity for bound devils etc. But going further back, a thousand years or so, you can do things like remnants of actual Varisian kingdoms arising after the Age of Darkness, legends of great kings who will one day return. Maybe the stone giants had their own successor-state kingdoms too. The Ulfen may have had substantial colonies at some point. There is a lot that can be added while sticking with established history. And you can add in 4e races like </p><p>Goliath (stone giant/Shoanti cross) and maybe even Dragonborn as a runelord creation. Tieflings of course are there already thanks to Cheliax, but can be presented more prominently. And how about some 'civilised ' goblins? Kaer Maga accepts anyone, but Magnimar might, too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 6726794, member: 463"] I've had that. Doctor: "You baby is so pale! He needs a blood test!" Me: "We all look like that!" He was actually less pale than the average newborn where I'm from (Belfast) - doctor was London south-Asian or Afro-Caribbean and apparently she'd never seen a Celtic baby before. On-topic: I thought Varisia was pretty close to the 4e assumptions re world is ancient, civilised races (PHB races) vs 'greenskins', etc. I guess there is a timeline issue re the vast time between the fall of the Runelords and the present day that gives plenty of space to include additional lesser empires. You could also emphasise the initial Cheliaxan colonisation wave, Varisia's equivalent to Nerath, for more recent ruins of forts, abandoned villages and suchlike, with plenty of opportunity for bound devils etc. But going further back, a thousand years or so, you can do things like remnants of actual Varisian kingdoms arising after the Age of Darkness, legends of great kings who will one day return. Maybe the stone giants had their own successor-state kingdoms too. The Ulfen may have had substantial colonies at some point. There is a lot that can be added while sticking with established history. And you can add in 4e races like Goliath (stone giant/Shoanti cross) and maybe even Dragonborn as a runelord creation. Tieflings of course are there already thanks to Cheliax, but can be presented more prominently. And how about some 'civilised ' goblins? Kaer Maga accepts anyone, but Magnimar might, too. [/QUOTE]
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