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... Good methods: 1) obtain allies who make a habit of fighting Illithid 2) build golems as shock troops 3) low-tech application of area-effect physical force; collapsing rocks, catapults, bring the building down, etc. Reason Principia Infecta

... Better to start with the small stuff and work up. I think I'm succeeding in that approach with Port and Three Stones in the Enclave setting. Start with the details that make it different and interesting; the odd carvings on the cobbles, the unusual inn, the accent of the fisherfolk, the...

.... Make the PCs low-to-mid level wizards with a social wizardry focus (i.e. lifers in the school of magic with lots of long-running social conflicts, grudges and whatnot with other wizards and the cityfolk). I'm sure you can link a great fire that burned all their spellbooks or drain of magic...

... Why build worlds? Because no-one else is going to do it the way I'd do it. I certainly lift flavors and concepts from elsewhere, but the end result is always definitively mine. In that, it's no different from any form of writing. Nothing is original, but everything is original. The...

... Good naming is like good spelling. You're just not going to be taken seriously if you don't do it. Unless of course it's the point of the exercise. Such as my satirical setting of a local council cleared tourism effort called The Dungeon of Aching Slime, complete with such characters as...

... Some less standard ideas: - Nature is blood; blood from the earth and blood to the earth. You revel in and celebrate the cycle of blood grown, shed from tooth and claw, and drunk for strength. Civilized ways are as wrongful to you as to the most savage barbarian. - All the secrets of...

... This being Planescape, you should steal someone's regret for a good deed done well and have a third party forge that regret into a nice bauble for your rather dada-esque ritual. The Paladin should be able to go along with that all the way up to hiding the damn thing away somewhere. Reason...

... Most of Midnight's low magic culture and whatnot would work quite well in a world merely resource-poor rather than actively ravaged, right? It has some of that same flavor as The Night Land, I thought - a very good thing. Reason Principia Infecta

... A dragon is an symbol grown so large on the consumption of other ideas that it can feasibly appear as anything at all. Like rock and roll, vampirism, economics and other similar giants, it has eaten its way into that odd lock-step between steering and being steered by the thoughts and...

... S'what's it there for. That and to better illustrate points with examples that would take forever and a day to rewrite here. Concise brevity up front backed up with lots of writing elsewhere, that's the way go. Reason Principia Infecta

... All stories are stories of the Fall. There's something rather good about having a glorious past of which mere hints remain; it works well on so many levels. As has been discussed elsewhere on these boards (and I can't find a link to of course), you can have a setting full to the brim of...

... Deity ideas here, feel free to loot for flavor: http://www.principiainfecta.com/archives/the_enclave/powers/index.php (The way in which these fit into a society is scattered throughout the Enclave setting; it's actually been rather interesting to me that you can have a dramatically...

... What to like: that it has ideas - possibly just one idea - both shocking and huge at its core: large enough to spawn endless fractal consequences; simple enough in its essence to be written in a single sentence that gives you shivvers; imposing enough to cast a terrible, endless shadow of...

That *was* a simple, utilitarian hook, not that it matters. Reason Principia Infecta

... 35. That certain nobility have common thieves' blood. http://www.principiainfecta.com/archives/2005/01/queen_of_thieve_1.php An old Ammander saying has it that a thief will only confide in a cat - and vice versa. Some years ago, the young Lady Malel of Port began to maintain a retinue of...

... 14. That the gold was stolen. http://www.principiainfecta.com/archives/2005/02/petitioning_the.php I am quite aware of the urgency with which you approach your charge, you have made that more than clear. I sympathise; any similar theft from my estate or interests would be dealt with quite...

... In the Enclave setting, planes are, supposedly at least, the quintessential, unending ever-different Farthest that blurs into the Enclave in every place. A wrong step and you may be Lost in the Farthest City, Library, Forest, and so forth. Lore of the Farthest "The Datarii call the place...

... Alternatively, you can pull the teeth of the cliche by making the tavern a whole lot more interesting. http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=120841 Reason Principia Infecta

... Adopted names are good. Exalted style naming is one such way to go for wizards - depends on the style of your cultures, but all have appropriate naming conventions for the powerful that are not actually common names. You can plunder the Enclave setting for the names of Ammander sages - who...

... Lesson to derive from number of timing of responses: gemstones have a special place in human culture yet, far more so than merely rare gold, for all that they are about to become as cheap as soil and manufactured on demand at any size. Why would that be, do you think? Some ideas on...