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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DeviousQuail" data-source="post: 8292796" data-attributes="member: 7025431"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">a whole religion revolving around the God-King. What does this religion look like? Do clerics of this god get powers?<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The God-King made a number of powerful demi-gods to oversee portions of the domain. These portions could be geographical areas or concepts like agriculture, life, death, etc. They power the clerics of the demense and may or may not know the truth of it and the outside world.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The only clerics in the world follow the God-King. They might be the chief enforcers of the God-King's will. Potentially all clerics are antagonists if the campaign turns the God-King into the bad guy. Or the God-King needs help and all clerics help the PCs.</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">an elite force of Knights dedicated to protecting the God-King<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Can be similar to the clerics above. Only makes sense if something or someone is actively trying to God-King.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Might be purely a status symbol for families loyal to the God-King. Could be the focus of a lot of political intrigue if a person's ranking in the Knights determines their family's standing.</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">What kinds of laws are there? bans on certain kinds of magic? (we don't want anyone accidently dispelling the dimension or traveling outside and finding out the truth)<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Any spell work over level 5 could be heresy. Those level spells could actually threaten the dimension. Quests to hunt down rogue spell casters sound fun. Very Dragon Age.</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">What does crime and trade between cities look like in a land that always has perfect weather and great crops?<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sounds like a good time to mine Star Trek for ideas.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Perhaps a caste or blood line system prevents socioeconomic movement.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Even with great weather and crops you still need people to make everything. So unless the God-King produces everything people wish for you'll still need laborers, artisans, business owners, etc.</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">There is a place that is considered unholy that no-one must enter (The exit to the demesne...) What is this place? What does it look like?<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Either an actual threat or a fake one to keep the populous in line. Perhaps the dimension has an exit that can't be exited without major consequences. There are bigger and badder dangers closer to the exit but they might be there to keep things in instead of out.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Or they do keep things out and that's the scary reveal for the PCs who may have been led to believe otherwise.</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">What was the catastrophe? Was it a natural disaster? Invading Aliens? Nuclear War? Disease? Zombie Apocalypse? What does this place look like now?<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Something bad enough that a very powerful mage would need to create a pocket dimension for thousands of people to escape to and stay in for a thousand years has to be pretty bad. Or there never was an apocalypse. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">For something a little less normal you could go with an "invasion" of refugees from across other dimensions. The mage could have saved a few people, Noah's Ark style, from each dimension before a war for limited space broke out.</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">what is the rising conflict? Is the mage going mad and the world is starting to crumble? Is the catastrophe from the outside making its way in?<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Maybe the mage is dying. Perhaps a successor is needed and it's a contest/race/struggle for a replacement. Or a successor isn't possible and all the beautiful weather, good crops, and stability of the world is taken away. Could be a nice way to make use of weather and the environment more.</li> </ul></li> </ul></blockquote><p></p>

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