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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jürgen Hubert" data-source="post: 4524228" data-attributes="member: 7177">Well, let me see how these apply to my own <a href="http://eruvian.com/locale.asp?localeID=74" target="_blank">Urbis</a>...1) Catch all Setting:Guilty. I have, indeed, taken my inspirations from pretty much everywhere - though I do hope that that the overall themes "March of Progress" and "Urban Civilization" do lessen the effect somewhat. And I've certainly tried to create interconnections between the different elements...2) Elemental Magic is Most Abundant:Well, I deliberately use the standard D&D 4E magic. On the other hand, spell magic, while most important for player characters, is less important for the setting as a whole - ritual magic (especially rituals for the creation of magic items) are much more important.3) The Setting never Goes Beyond 14th Century:Not guilty. I've based the setting on the 19th century, not the 14th - which has all sorts of interesting consequences.4) Magic is the Be All End All:Guilty. Possibly extremely so - I've got an industrial revolution based on magic...5) Black vs. White:Not guilty. I wanted to emphasize that overall social values are in a state of flux, with different people having different ideas of what constitutes a "good" society.And the leader of the most war-mongering nation detailed is actually trying to avoid further wars for his nation - and if he got eliminated, he would probably be replaced by someone who is a lot worse...6) Europe and Only Europe:Guilty. I modeled the setting deliberately after 19th century Western Europe (together with some nearby areas) to make the stranger aspects of the world easier to deal with. There are analogs of other regions in the world, but they are not the main focus at the moment.</blockquote>

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