An Epic Setting

[Jürgen Hubert]

Though this does make me wonder - if I made the whole setting OGL, as opposed to only the rules bits, do you think it would sell better?

 

[JustaPlayer]

I'm alway looking for epic stuff, but for me to pick it up, it would have to be well done. Same goes with settings. An epic setting would be cool, but if the previews don't catch me, I can't see myself buying it.

 

[Frostmarrow]

I think you might want to spice it up a little. The adventurers are fleeing boredom? That comes off on a dull note. I would like the adventurers to be a wee bit more interesting than that. Sure, at 30th level no one will scare you off on account of being more powerful but there are other reasons to get away (unrequited love, cooperation problems, everybody they once knew are now dead). The reason behind will reflect upon the city itself and become part of the theme. Boredom is not your best choice.

Hope that helps!

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

I think you might want to spice it up a little. The adventurers are fleeing boredom? That comes off on a dull note.

Well, that was the motivation of the original adventurers who founded the place. Now the city and the Consortium are essentially self-sustaining and bring a whole lot of exitement to all worlds they come into contact with, whether you want it or not.

The culture shock alone will cause all sorts of upwheal. After all, many of the Consortium members are non-human, and quite a few are backed by diabolical forces. Many countries will object to opening themselves up to trade with these kinds of beings - but they are not given any choice here...

 

[carpedavid]

Excellent idea, Jurgen - I've sent you an email on the subject.

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

Excellent idea, Jurgen - I've sent you an email on the subject.

Hmmm... I got some sort of error message from my email program when I tried to send you a reply. Did you get the email anyway?

 

[carpedavid]

Hmmm... I got some sort of error message from my email program when I tried to send you a reply. Did you get the email anyway?

Yep! I'm working on a reply even now.

 

[Thomas Percy]

Maybe it's not pure epic, but in my current campaign such a situation occurs:

Some Wiz20 try to wake up volcanos and use a lava to create second "great wall of china".
Something goes wrong and after a series of earthquakes his lava destroyed whole neighbouring provinces and wake up many dragons which sleep for centuries below the mountains.
Archmages were so proud, that they don't try to kill this dragons, but they try to catch and enslave them.
In effect several ancient dragons and a lot of minor dragons escape and hide in all country.
Now we have a setting like World of Darkness' Vampire or Werewolf, where players can play this dragons - more powerful than common folk, but still must hide from government.

Maybe you find it useful.

 

[CRGreathouse]

Though this does make me wonder - if I made the whole setting OGL, as opposed to only the rules bits, do you think it would sell better?

Prsonally, I would be more likely to buy it if it was all-OGC (excepting perhaps PI like the city's name and names of major citizens), even though I don't intend to publish any setting, much less one based on someone else's work. I don't know how many other people feel that way.

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

Prsonally, I would be more likely to buy it if it was all-OGC

Well, that's currently the plan.

Hmmm... How many published all-OGC settings are actually out there?

(Not counting online settings like Tempest, which sadly seems to have fallen into disuse these days...)