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Message: <blockquote data-quote="der_kluge" data-source="post: 2624691" data-attributes="member: 945">Admittedly, probably a better thread for the Necromancer boards, but I thought I'd post it here.I must confess that the pseudo sci-fi/fantasy history that the Wilderlands has is a boot cooky. I like the idea regarding the philosophers versus magic-users war that lasted over a thousand years, and the idea that the the PCs could stumble onto advanced technology I do find a little appealing, but only a little. I'm having a hard time swallowing the idea that at some point in the history of the planet, the Federation landed with their Prime Directive, and thus began a long war against Gaia with the Romulans acting as instigators and spies.Ok, that's not it exactly, but if you've read it, you'll know it's not too far off.So, what I was trying to do was to create a purely fantasy derivitive of the Wilderlands history that didn't involve Star Trek landing on the planet and spurring a thousand year war.I think I'm going to need to get, or at least borrow the Player's Guide to the Wilderlands to help me understand all the various races in the book. While I'm cool with having things like Mer-elves, or subterranean dwarves, having moon people is a little goofy for me. So, I suspect that while I may keep a lot of the races described (in theory), many of them I'll probably remove whole cloth.I may also end up using HARP as my model, and in that sense, I'll need to create HARP versions of all the PC races in the world. Hey, a guy needs a hobby, right?Anyway, this is what I have so far. I welcome any comments. I still have a few gaps, which I'll cover at the end, and I'm open to suggestions.I figured that, given the life spans of the original races, humans could have developed slowly over time, and maybe their advancement was accelerated by the Gaia for some reason. For Halflings, I was thinking of just adding them, with absolutely no explanation!  In that "Tell me about Halflings in your world" thread a while back, someone had mentioned that halflings in their world sort of fell outside the boundaries of prophecy, so they were sort of a wildcard. I could just say that the origins of Halflings are a mystery,and no one, not even the Treants are sure of where they came from.I also want to make sure that, for whatever reason, the world is basically in disarray. There have been numerous conflicts, or whatever, and that there are still savages and barbarians running out in great numbers. I like that aspect of it.Any other comments or suggestions?</blockquote>

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