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Yeah, it pretty much gives all the justifications you need for adventurers to do what they do anyway - but this time, it gives them a proper social context to operate in.

Well, it looks like it's finally nearing publication... And here, a map:

The revised playtest manuscript is now available in the Files section of the newly-created Doomed Slayers Mailing List! Hope to see some of you there.

UPDATE: I've recently finished a revised manuscript and sent it to a number of proofreaders/playtesters, but I could still use a few more. If you are interested in helping out and think you could send some feedback my way until the 12 of June (the date on which I would like to start working on...

I've just reached a word count of 15,000 - about 2,000 more, and I figure I will be finished with the first draft. If all goes well, this should be published by the end of May...

Some Slayers will certainly go for something like that (and in D&D terms, this could be represented by feats or paragon paths), but I want to keep that optional. I want most of the classical adventuring careers and origin stories to work with this framework, and the farmer's lad who picks up an...

Some element of the Warhammer Slayers (with which I am familiar) is certainly in there - though ultimately, most Slayers in this setting would rather prefer a glorious life (or at least a profitable one) over a glorious death. Not that there aren't exceptions to this, of course - there is...

They can do that, but then they are not legally considered Slayers any more - with all the advantages (being allowed to own land and settle down, no longer needing to help out with monster problems) and disadvantages (taxation, being beholden to feudal overlords) that entails. (Also, saying "I...

Largely the former - it's a social class, not an organization like a guild. This will certainly happen, but it's not without risks. In such a setting, the "My enemy is in league with monsters/dark forces! Really!" ploy will be one of the older tricks in the book, and experienced Slayers will...

I came up with this idea one week ago on RPGNet, and now I am seriously considering writing this up as a systemless miniature setting and selling it on DriveThruRPG as an ebook. But until then, I'd like to get some feedback on the basic ideas and concept. Basically, I wanted to come up with an...

There is also GURPS Technomancer. In that case, it was the test of the first nuclear weapon in 1945 that brought magic back, and "the science of magic" developed together with technology, and there is a broad range of magical effects interacting with technology and vice versa. This setting is...

Don't need a time machine - that's how the police operates in much of the world today. In fact lots of immigrants from poor nations have difficulties grasping the idea that the police might actually be there to help them if someone committed a crime against them...

This thread is relevant to my own setting. I'll just add my thoughts in here: This has several assumptions which may not necessarily be true: - The authorities care about what is happening. If a noble or council member is slaughtered in broad daylight - or even in a back alley - then sure...

As Urbis is very much a kitchen sink setting, I get inspiration from pretty much everywhere. It also helps that large parts of the setting are roughly analogous to Western and Central Europe during the Age of Industrialization - thus, there is a lot of history stuff I can steal, and both players...

Do it because you enjoy creating a new setting - nothing less, and nothing more. Personally, I love reading about new settings - and what you describe does sound fascinating - but then again I am a settings junkie.

Nice design! Is this one of the newer default designs, or did you create it on your own? Small nitpick, though: In the pull-down menu for "campaigns" the first item isn't displayed correctly because the entry is two lines long...

Well, here are the very first steps to creating a Wikidot.com wiki, if anyone is interested. First register at Wikidot.com itself - there is a "register" button at the upper right corner. Then return to the same page and enter the subdomain name of your wiki into the field. After clicking...

I guess I should answer these questions in a bit more detail for Wikidot.com... Apart from standard internal links, Wikidot.com offers two ways of organizing entries: Tags and breadcrumb navigation. Tags are essentially the same as on ENWorld - you can add any tags you want to any page, and...

I've had very good experiences with Wikidot.com. Here are some of the wikis I maintain there: - Urbis Wiki - Arcana Wiki - Dungeons & Dragons Insider Wiki The first two have some nifty customized themes I was able to create. The last one showcases how pages can be autolisted by their tags...

I sympathize with your losses. The trick to avoid this is to use popular and open document formats. Plain ASCII text will be with us for a long time. PDFs are so popular that even if they are superseded by another format there will be plenty of solutions available to convert them into different...