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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Particle_Man" data-source="post: 2912495" data-attributes="member: 892">I thought it would be interesting to re-imagine a world I am thinking of for C&C in light of some of these assumptions:The PCs are about the only characters around that can cast magic that are not monstrous or long dead (or undead).  (This PCs are special arg. also covers the "adventuring is quickest road to self-improvement".  It is...for the PCs).I propose a RIFTS-like solution.  Various races from various worlds have effectively gotten dumped on this world, a varying number of centuries ago.  This would explain a few things.  The Dwarves distrust elves because their first elvish contact was with the Drow.  Humans have a sorta-medieval lifestyle that looks like it is from various eras because it WAS, and has been "evolving" a bit over time (but gunpowder still doesn't work.  N'yah).  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I might make my gods more "hands off".  But the granting magic to a chosen few would still be there.  Perhaps demonic entities could grant spells to the evil humanoid shaman types, while distant good entities could also sometimes take an interest by granting spells/paladin abilities to a chosen few. But I would back off on the planar travel bit.  And with magic being rare (until the PCs get here), a spellcasting Cleric or Druid might be looked at with suspicion or outright horror...at least at first.  Yep.  Part of the Rifts-ish mentality.  But some villages would not have encountered them directly (since some beasts are so terrible that a village that was encountered by one would not be a village for much longer).  And Bards and other travellers might make stuff up too.  Rumours could abound.  My favorite would be to change a few things around.  So-called "half-orcs" would be thought to be products of rape by orcs, but would actually be a race in their own right that cannot interbreed with other races, and happens to come from the same "homeworld" as orcs (perhaps as further evolved versions, and more recent arrivals?).Magic has been gone from the land for centuries (except for a few monsters' racial abilities?), but is returning, perhaps because the dragons are starting to wake up...Again, it is for most.  Maybe not for the NEW PCs heroes, and those they like a lot.  Well, the undead would start "arising" too.Again, I would make this more rare, and for PCs and the newly arising monsters (at least some of them).It is fun to play around with these assumptions!</blockquote>

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