Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Razjah" data-source="post: 5951987" data-attributes="member: 98806">Okay, I think the tree-dwelling city-state can work for wood elves. Scholarly wizard city.. that needs more. Alright: along the borders of the desert, near an oasis. The scholarly city-state is one of the eldest city-states, being chosen for easy sea access, but the rivers have been diverted by an ancient magical catastrophe leading to the desert being its current size. Now the wizards focus more on theory of magic (for safety). The city is built around the giant library (think epic library of alexandria). Information is the currency of the city, but coinage works. The library house millions of scrolls filled with information about spells, theories of magic, celestial beings, solar bodies, summoning theories, appropriate blast radius for the perfect fireball, etc. For bringing in new information or a small fee anyone can get access to the great library. But this is where wizards are concentrated. Destroying any library property earns the enmity of nearly all the wizards of the "world". This city-state could be a mage-ocracy with the higher mages ruling the lesser mages who rule the commoners. It would be styled similar to a feudal system, but with bookish scholars rather than knights. Advancing in rank (level up) gets access to more spells, more components, and better facilities (+2 bonus to research spells).  Oh just use the shire as a baseline. "Big" city-state built into the hills for protection. They use lots of the flightless birds (chocobos?) for farming and the like. I really don't have much for your hobbyts who I assume are your world's halflings. Grippli could live in a swamp. Sure, they're supposed to be treefrogs (I had to use wiki, never remember hearing of these guys before), but swamps work well enough for fantasy. Now set it up like Lake Town from The Hobbit, but more hillbilly. So the city-state is floating in the swamp regions where two great rivers come together and form a great delta. The swamp has a lot of different fish species to farm and the ease of access to water makes the city a decent port, the "waterfront" is near the deep waters where larger ships can get to. This city-state would be utilitarian in build, but sprawling and haphazard in design. What I mean is that the buildings, rope bridges, and walkways are all efficient and well designed. The city's layout is haphazard and was formed organically as the city expanded to deal with a growing population. The government could be a council, how about a triumvirate? The three fish farmers each year with the most caught form the triumvirate. Then I don't expect the population to be too high. There isn't enough magic to go around to help all the people. Instead wizards are mighty and powerful. Perhaps the Great Library is very well maintained and protected, but most people get along without magic and some city-states can outfit their higher-ups in the army/militia/town guard/etc with potions.Okay, you have chocobos. How about using Moas for something. They were large flightless birds. Something like the North Island Giant Moa could be used for a draft animal in this. Then you don't need any cattle. Add in giant kiwis to serve as your donkey/mule substitute and you are ready to go with animals.</blockquote>

Verification