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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pour" data-source="post: 5761344" data-attributes="member: 59411">This was inspired by Crucible of the Gods, but I think it’d make a pretty sweet campaign setting...Notes: Firstly, I like justifying adventuring, dungeon crawling, and D&Disms as vital to the world's survival. I think the moral shift which has fairly ruthless and greedy dungeoneers becoming these redeeming heroes  really takes the moral and spiritual side of the game (RP) into some really grey, great territory- and must repurpose a lot of once holy and learned orders, much to their chagrin or dislike perhaps. How the population has reacted to the end times, how these great leaders, now Prophets, are on their knees begging must have all sorts of tolls on the races. I like how good-aligned angels and evil-aligned devils are on the same side, agents of Armageddon, is an even more fun way to use all of the Monster Manual than calling angels neutral soldiers. These angels also have faces and legs (see MtG). The idea that part of their trials, which have been given no timetable, include fending off new races the gods have made to replace them is amazingly ripe. And, as always, there's people who want to be liches and sentient golems (new history for warforged, perhaps, not as soldiers but as men and women attempting to endure beyond the apocalypse... maybe more selfless ones imbuing their consciousness into machines in order to better face the trials- calling into question the value of mortal races and machine).This one is just something I've been playing with...Notes: I think Garuul utilizes a lot of 4e assumptions in new and interesting ways. First off, it puts a lot of the PHB1 races in the forefront and welcomes some of the weirder and more monstrous as baseline. It also more or less excludes elves, dwarves, gnomes, and the children of the gods who've now turned on Man and his creators. That's not to say a particularly sympathetic or bad member of the race couldn't be cast into this hellhole, but it's not common. 4e gods are front and center, and again D&D's need to delve, crawl, adventure are set into the core assumption- you must find and heal your gods in order to escape, or help the organizations working on new magic and technology to escape, or maybe the opposite, become kings of the damned. The drow escaping race-wide imprisonment to be the suppliers in this prison-setting also leaves a big spot open for them (and they do seem to be getting a lot of 4e coverage). And retooling the mirror worlds of Feywild and Shadowfell as watchtower planes, basically the prison walls and yards beyond Garuul itself, leaves a lot of fun reimagining of fey and classes like wardens as actual wardens, the whole Primal power source made out to be oppressive. Same with the Shadowfell, and the Shadow power source, undead, vampires, vryloka, shades, all of them kind of like the other have of the penal system, maybe fashioned more like laywers and judges on cosmic scale.  Or maybe we can reserve that for Hell, devils like lawyers and judges, torturing Garuul with mocking trials. Just kind of riffing now, but it can be taken a lot of places.</blockquote>

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