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<blockquote data-quote="GreenTengu" data-source="post: 6475614" data-attributes="member: 6777454"><p>You can have a setting that is humorous, but... yeah... not really sure you are on the right track here.</p><p></p><p>Perhaps especially if you are going for an immature and humorous setting, you need to question-- what is the ultimate struggle in the world? What exactly are the players supposed to be fighting for?</p><p></p><p>I just see random concepts here, none of which seems particularly promising as all kind of suggest that everything in this world is well-in-hand and there is really no particularly reason for adventurers to exist.</p><p></p><p>Some of these are nonsensical.</p><p>Why is someone cloning Orcs to be slaughtered like lifestock? Are the people in this world accutely aware of this concept of "XP" and know that creating and murdering a sentient race allows those killing them to get "XP"? Really, that sounds more like a horror sci-fi concept than a remotely humorous one.</p><p>You are a baby with a full grown body woken up with a dozen brothers, have just enough knowledge to know maybe how to use a weapon. You are given a broken blade and some crappy armor and then dumped in front of a bunch of much better armed, much older people for whom slaughtering your kind has become routine and they immediately charge up and begin butchering your brothers in the most horrific of manners.</p><p></p><p>That's... "humorous"? What kind of demented sicko are you? Let's hack up innocents in their first 15 minutes of life! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!</p><p></p><p>And.... okay... demons kill whomever summons them.</p><p>Well, since summoning demons almost certainly requires a good amount of study and practice, the fact that everyone who successfully studies one dies before they can ever write down how to do it and they never benefit from it.... Well... great. No one in this world ever summons demons. Done and done.</p><p>What was supposed to be humorous there? Again. You seem to have no grasp on humor.</p><p>You know what would be far more humorous? If after being summoned the demon would grant a wish at a cost and the wish wouldn't come out the way one wants and the cost wouldn't be deadly, but would rather be life-ruining and generally humiliating so that the person would be able to survive from that point on, but everyone would be able to point and laugh at them as the idiot who summoned a demon.</p><p></p><p>Similarly.... what is inherently humorous about all Wizards belonging to the same organization. So there is this organization that hordes all the power and secrets of the universe away from all other and gives exclusive access to their members, that actively seeks out and slays anyone in the world outside of their organization suspected of using the magical arts.</p><p>Again... where is the humor here?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GreenTengu, post: 6475614, member: 6777454"] You can have a setting that is humorous, but... yeah... not really sure you are on the right track here. Perhaps especially if you are going for an immature and humorous setting, you need to question-- what is the ultimate struggle in the world? What exactly are the players supposed to be fighting for? I just see random concepts here, none of which seems particularly promising as all kind of suggest that everything in this world is well-in-hand and there is really no particularly reason for adventurers to exist. Some of these are nonsensical. Why is someone cloning Orcs to be slaughtered like lifestock? Are the people in this world accutely aware of this concept of "XP" and know that creating and murdering a sentient race allows those killing them to get "XP"? Really, that sounds more like a horror sci-fi concept than a remotely humorous one. You are a baby with a full grown body woken up with a dozen brothers, have just enough knowledge to know maybe how to use a weapon. You are given a broken blade and some crappy armor and then dumped in front of a bunch of much better armed, much older people for whom slaughtering your kind has become routine and they immediately charge up and begin butchering your brothers in the most horrific of manners. That's... "humorous"? What kind of demented sicko are you? Let's hack up innocents in their first 15 minutes of life! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! And.... okay... demons kill whomever summons them. Well, since summoning demons almost certainly requires a good amount of study and practice, the fact that everyone who successfully studies one dies before they can ever write down how to do it and they never benefit from it.... Well... great. No one in this world ever summons demons. Done and done. What was supposed to be humorous there? Again. You seem to have no grasp on humor. You know what would be far more humorous? If after being summoned the demon would grant a wish at a cost and the wish wouldn't come out the way one wants and the cost wouldn't be deadly, but would rather be life-ruining and generally humiliating so that the person would be able to survive from that point on, but everyone would be able to point and laugh at them as the idiot who summoned a demon. Similarly.... what is inherently humorous about all Wizards belonging to the same organization. So there is this organization that hordes all the power and secrets of the universe away from all other and gives exclusive access to their members, that actively seeks out and slays anyone in the world outside of their organization suspected of using the magical arts. Again... where is the humor here? [/QUOTE]
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