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[Legendary Games] The ARCFORGE UNIVERSE Kickstarter is live for Pathfinder RPG!
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<blockquote data-quote="WhatLiesBeyond" data-source="post: 9290151" data-attributes="member: 7043363"><p>I'm happy that you asked! Arcforge, Aethera, and Legendary Planet were all designed by different writers with unique aesthetics and themes in mind. Each tells a different story of how a fantasy culture reaches the space age and how the environment of high-tech fantasy is constructed.</p><p></p><p>Legendary Planet is heavily influenced by pulp sci-fi of the 1930s-1970s, blending sword and sorcery elements with fantastical alien environments and scheming technological forces. The characters in Legendary Planet are suddenly thrown from a typical fantasy world into a wild frontier filled with alien peoples in need of heroes. </p><p></p><p>Aethera also wears its pulp influence on its sleeve, but is much tighter in its world construction. The setting of Aethera is built around a smaller subset of deeply intertwined elements, with magic and technology blending together through the system's history. This tightness comes with the caveat that a lot of common Pathfinder elements (namely the Tolkein peoples) don't really have a place there.</p><p></p><p>Arcforge is influenced by more recent works, drawing heavily on cyberpunk and weird fantasy themes from the 1980s and 1990s. The setting itself is designed more explicitly to be a kitchen sink, with every conceivable element and class option having a place somewhere within the setting's sprawling history. Themes of technological change and advancement (as well as the social changes they bring) are prevalent in Arcforge's threefold setting (Vandara, Aurin, and the Beyond).</p><p></p><p>Based on what you've described, I think Arcforge is the best fit for the game you want to run. In particular, the Aurin portion of the setting covered in Spheres Left Behind, Starlight Inheritors, and Gleam of Eternity (all of which are compiled in the Universe Cyclopedia) seems up your alley.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WhatLiesBeyond, post: 9290151, member: 7043363"] I'm happy that you asked! Arcforge, Aethera, and Legendary Planet were all designed by different writers with unique aesthetics and themes in mind. Each tells a different story of how a fantasy culture reaches the space age and how the environment of high-tech fantasy is constructed. Legendary Planet is heavily influenced by pulp sci-fi of the 1930s-1970s, blending sword and sorcery elements with fantastical alien environments and scheming technological forces. The characters in Legendary Planet are suddenly thrown from a typical fantasy world into a wild frontier filled with alien peoples in need of heroes. Aethera also wears its pulp influence on its sleeve, but is much tighter in its world construction. The setting of Aethera is built around a smaller subset of deeply intertwined elements, with magic and technology blending together through the system's history. This tightness comes with the caveat that a lot of common Pathfinder elements (namely the Tolkein peoples) don't really have a place there. Arcforge is influenced by more recent works, drawing heavily on cyberpunk and weird fantasy themes from the 1980s and 1990s. The setting itself is designed more explicitly to be a kitchen sink, with every conceivable element and class option having a place somewhere within the setting's sprawling history. Themes of technological change and advancement (as well as the social changes they bring) are prevalent in Arcforge's threefold setting (Vandara, Aurin, and the Beyond). Based on what you've described, I think Arcforge is the best fit for the game you want to run. In particular, the Aurin portion of the setting covered in Spheres Left Behind, Starlight Inheritors, and Gleam of Eternity (all of which are compiled in the Universe Cyclopedia) seems up your alley. [/QUOTE]
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