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<blockquote data-quote="QuentinGeorge" data-source="post: 8278100" data-attributes="member: 20990">1. Orcs and Goblinoids are the same (diverse) people named Orschans. They are steppe-raiders and seen as &quot;evil&quot; by non-Orschans, but in reality no more so than humans.2. No &quot;physical&quot; gods. Much like Eberron, gods do not manifest to mortals, they do not speak to mortals and they do not answer prayers. Clerics follow religions and gods, and receive powers and the faithful may be blessed or see omens, but are there actually deities behind any of this? Who knows.3. No Great Wheel. In fact, not really any planes other than the Material, with the exception of the Far Realm. Yes, the Great Old Ones are definitely real, are your Gods? You might not like the answer. I also have the &quot;Faerie Realm&quot; which combines elements of the Feywild with some of the other planes.4. No Common. It's an overly gamist approach and seems a garbled reference to the &quot;Lingua Franca&quot; of the Mediterranean. Instead characters speak whatever languages are appropriate for the regions they live in. Most demihumans don't have their own language. If they live with humans, they speak the same language.5. The Underdark is called the &quot;Underworld&quot;, and combines elements of that with what you might get from the Lower Planes. (Similar to Eberron's Khyber, actually).6. It's always annoyed me that despite having Asmodeus, Orcus, Baalzebul and Mephistopheles, there is no Michael, Raphael, Uriel et al, so they are there in my setting. But most of my archangels and archfiends are the &quot;sealed evil/good in a can&quot;. They sleep, yet reach out with their dreams. The dreams can be real for mortals...7. Drow are albino in their natural states and worship demons (of which the Spider Queen) is one. When they come to live on the surface their skin reacts to the sunlight and becomes dark. So it is only renegade drow (ie, the non-evil ones) who are dark on my world.8. Gnomes and Dwarves are related, with the gnomes being exiles from the dwarvern nations.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="QuentinGeorge, post: 8278100, member: 20990"] 1. Orcs and Goblinoids are the same (diverse) people named Orschans. They are steppe-raiders and seen as "evil" by non-Orschans, but in reality no more so than humans. 2. No "physical" gods. Much like Eberron, gods do not manifest to mortals, they do not speak to mortals and they do not answer prayers. Clerics follow religions and gods, and receive powers and the faithful may be blessed or see omens, but are there actually deities behind any of this? Who knows. 3. No Great Wheel. In fact, not really any planes other than the Material, with the exception of the Far Realm. Yes, the Great Old Ones are definitely real, are your Gods? You might not like the answer. I also have the "Faerie Realm" which combines elements of the Feywild with some of the other planes. 4. No Common. It's an overly gamist approach and seems a garbled reference to the "Lingua Franca" of the Mediterranean. Instead characters speak whatever languages are appropriate for the regions they live in. Most demihumans don't have their own language. If they live with humans, they speak the same language. 5. The Underdark is called the "Underworld", and combines elements of that with what you might get from the Lower Planes. (Similar to Eberron's Khyber, actually). 6. It's always annoyed me that despite having Asmodeus, Orcus, Baalzebul and Mephistopheles, there is no Michael, Raphael, Uriel et al, so they are there in my setting. But most of my archangels and archfiends are the "sealed evil/good in a can". They sleep, yet reach out with their dreams. The dreams can be real for mortals... 7. Drow are albino in their natural states and worship demons (of which the Spider Queen) is one. When they come to live on the surface their skin reacts to the sunlight and becomes dark. So it is only renegade drow (ie, the non-evil ones) who are dark on my world. 8. Gnomes and Dwarves are related, with the gnomes being exiles from the dwarvern nations. [/QUOTE]

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