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more grim and gritty Have a look at my take on the same thing at: http://www.twilightminds.com/sorasfull.html Look at the d20 fragment link on that page: http://www.twilightminds.com/soras/pdf/SORAS_d20_Combat_and_Injury.pdf You have think through a couple of consequences for higher levels...

combat and charisma 1) Make combat more tactical -- additional feats or rule changes, or simply give PCs bonuses for making combat more interesting and tactical by making better use of the scenery. (You might find the SORAS rules interesting...

cethen Have a look at my Cethen proposal: http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/news/modules/Downloads/store_folder/Setting_Proposals/Cethen.doc Might give you some ideas. Reason

characters, conflict Plot is all about memorable NPCs and their relationships to the PCs. If you create interesting, motivated, long-term NPCs in your game, plot will tend to just happen. Whenever you create a new location in a campaign, create a couple of NPCs to go with it. Keep cards or a...

Since Chapter Three (the Cult of Io Hejin, and lots of religious goodness) is horribly long, I've posted some teaser material. http://www.twilightminds.com/sorasfull.html Look for the "Fragment: Lesser Faiths" entry. Information on the Cult of the Eye, True Believers, Servants of the Farseer...

Since Chapter Three (the Cult of Io Hejin, and lots of religious goodness) is horribly long, I've posted some teaser material. http://www.twilightminds.com/sorasfull.html Look for the "Fragment: Lesser Faiths" entry. Information on the Cult of the Eye, True Believers, Servants of the Farseer...

Since Chapter Three (the Cult of Io Hejin, and lots of religious goodness) is horribly long, I've posted some teaser material. http://www.twilightminds.com/sorasfull.html Look for the "Fragment: Lesser Faiths" entry. Information on the Cult of the Eye, True Believers, Servants of the Farseer...

1) Have the demon be a more interesting (possibly sympathetic?) character, with the ability to get the PCs out of trouble once, but at some cost later on. Makes the whole thing more strategic, and prevents TPKs that would mess up the whole short thing. Also if the demon is sympathetic, makes...

more ciities... The City of 1000 Children (Set in a post-nanotech-disaster future, actually Rio de Janeiro, but works well elsewhere). The City of 1000 Children is an ancient place, ruled over by an ageless family who survive due to a compact made with the Benevolant God. His massive statue...

>A giant eye An intelligent, vastly powerful beholder-like entity (trapped in its present location?) that trades victims and twisted magics with the circus, but is not necessarily hostile to the PCs nor particularly friendly towards the vampire. It may give clues to the circus' eventual...

mad wizards There seems to be a fine tradition of mad and/or reclusive wizards living in swamps. The one from the Lankhmar series, for example. Then there was that mad wizard in the wooden swamp-hut from the convention module with the paladins and the gnolls way back when. So a wizard of...

some ideas Most abyssal ideas revolve around Bad Things. Pollution, torment, war, and so forth. I've always seen these places as where fiends harvest sorrow/pain from souls through twisted means. So: Man-groves Swamp filled with trees composed of the dead, pressed together and distorted...

it's all in the flavor You have to get the flavor right -- but it works really really well if you do. It's an excellent system for swashbuckling types of games. Don't be afraid to let PCs take enormously high skills in a few things. It won't matter, since if done properly, combat isn't a...

literalism Maybe I'm just an oddball, but I find that literal names work the best. I mean, if you look at all the greek stories, all the characters had literal names. The trick with literal names is to choose words that are infrequently used (or come from older times), or use them in unusual...

assassination politics http://www.infowar.com/class_1/BELL1.html-ssi An interesting mine of ideas for the culturally sanctioned use of assassins; modern-day oriented, but the essential idea is still very applicable to a setting in which secrecy can be magically or otherwise arranged fairly...

worry about the singularity The singularity should be happening sometime between now and then. Some good resources on what we'll be doing: 1) http://www.aleph.se/Trans 2) All of SJ Games Transhuman Space line But basically, the theme is that people underestimate what huge processing power can...

Cannibalism in Spirits of Rock and Sky In my currently revamping setting, Spirits of Rock and Sky, *everyone* is a cannibal under all reasonably definitions of the term. Not only that, but everything that doesn't get eaten is used as raw materials for building and crafting. It all makes...

Chapter Two, all about the Enierd and their interesting way of life, has now been enriched with nineteen plot seeds. I know that took me far too long (even at only one per page), but go look! http://www.twilightminds.com/sorasfull.html Comments are always welcome. Per usual, my plot seeds are...

Really? That is interesting. File that one away... This is the problem with writing up a world that involves building structures out of human bodies when one hasn't been a med student/mass murderer/graverobber. Lots of stuff surprises you. Still, at least I have my figure now, many thanks guys...

2.5lbs? That sounds low. The 11-14 sounds right; I've seen various figures in the 11-15 range for the weight of the head, all parts included. (7.5% of body mass was a mentioned figure). The adult human brain is 3lbs according to my reference here...which means that everything else in the head...