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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hopeless" data-source="post: 8259737" data-attributes="member: 36349">Okay here's two off the top of my head;ROTHENEL: In the distant future a generation colony ship from Earth reaches the dubious safety of a new world only to discover it already colonised by various races they recognise from their myths as elves, dwarves and many others.The elves allow them to land three of their landing craft and colonise certain parts of the world with the understanding they recognise the other races were there first.But humanity have always been known to be idiotic and the resulting war causes their various city sized landing ships to end up being sunk and the survivors rebuilding their lives some as slaves and others allowed to persist kept under surveillance because of the treachery of a few.The elves begin to leave the world as they prefer their feywild home usually only settling on worlds such as this one as holiday homes to spend a short time before returning to their true home as they have much longer lives.The dwarves prefer their underground realm similar to the feywild as its actually located in another plane, but they hold grudges especially when they're proven to be false as their stubbornness is almost as legendary as their tolerance for alcohol.Forty years ago an apprentice wizard made a bargain with a mysterious foe granting him the means to conquer most of the world, but for the intervention of a small group of heroes that eventually defeated him.That however was 40 years ago and a new menace has emerged as various evil cults planning to free their masters from behind the Divine Gates that even the primary deities cannot pass through the only adversary is an order of celestial archons known as the Celestial Bureaucracy most of whom lack the means or understanding to pose much of a threat to their plans bar one vestigal entity a Lantern Archon named Kestra whose call for heroes heralds a new era as the world crumbles into chaos once more.Will you answer the call and be the hero Rothenel needs in its time of need or the champion of the forces of darkness?Description: Far future steampunk most of the races and classes of 5e available including zeppelins and artificers are technologists damnit!RHITIA: A thousand years ago magic returned to the world and civilisation collapsed in its wake.Most of the world fell into darkness and on the shattered islands of Rhitia a fledgling civilisation is slowly rebuilding as a menacing foe from the distant past threatens everything they've built just to perpetuate the mistakes that caused the downfall of the previous civilisation.Will you rise to help defend society or take advantage of the resulting chaos even though that will likely spell the end of everything you have sought to build or conquer?Description: Earth a millennia from now, an unknown event restored magic to the world and the resulting chaos as technology failed costing billion of lives now on the shattered islands of a formerly legendary sea faring kingdom a new hope is rising but against them is a foe from the past whose escape caused the collapse of civilisation and might topple everything now simply because they can't bring themselves to learn from their past to prevent repeating their mistake.I'd like a Greyhawk or Mystara Setting mind you, but there are literally loads of possiblities if you want an actual new setting the question is what does WOTC want?</blockquote>

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