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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8265213" data-attributes="member: 6704184">Man there is a lot. General:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Alignment is literally just a meta concept on the PC level, and even that is just because it's part of the collective gaming consciousness, not because I wanted to keep alignment.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">things like Good and Evil exist, and people argument about the importance of order vs freedom, and demons are Evil in an elemental sense.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">No Blood War, no Devil/Demon split, no neutral evil third fiend type. Fiend, Demon, and Devil, are completely interchangeable terms.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">All social animals are born slightly leaning toward "Good", in that their instinct is to cooperate with their kin and they experience some degree of empathy. Culture can and does push peoples toward other instincts, but you don't kjnow who the bad guys are by their race.,</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Technology isn't static. Often that means that I add later tech advancements to a setting's canon, or that I describe a lot of the stuff in the books as newly developed tech.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Society is more egalitarian than historical human societies were. The game is not medieval.</li> </ul>Setting Specific<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">FR: The basis of my FR is the 4e books. There are still earthmotes, Netheril has two floating cities, the Kingdom of Many Arrows is still around, Tymanther is still there, etc.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The gods are returning, having been trapped on Abeir.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bahamut and Tiamat are the scions of Io, and Shar is the scion of the primordial that killed Io.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">There are over a dozen dragon gods, but most have been trapped or diminished by Tiamat and Shar</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dragons behave the way they do because Bahamut and Tiamat are too powerful, with no other of the dragons gods having enough power to counter their influence. On Abeir, they display much more free will.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Elminster, Drizzt, and most other novel PCs are dead. Elminster may have been reincarnated in the body of a teen girl who is discovering her power. (spoiler, she is actually the metaphysical child of Elminster and Mystra)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Drizzt died during the spellplague, helping to fight an invasion from the underdark. </li> </ul></blockquote>

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