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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Razuur" data-source="post: 2449014" data-attributes="member: 1997">I wanted my world to have some of everything in it.  All of my favorite things from all of my favorite fantasy books, RPGs, etc.  So here is what I came up with.I chose one core product (in my case Middle earth) as my foundation and built outwards from there.  I then had a massive war occur in which the big bad dies - in my case Melkor(his captains survive).  The fight was titanic with the gods (in my case Valar and Maiar) taking sides.  The struggle was so immense that it threatened all of creation.  At the conflicts end, the creator of all (in my world Illuvitar) divided up the world into regions, and divided the gods up with them, assigning some to each.  The Creator decreed that the gods of that region would have free hand in shaping the civilizations in that region, but not in others.  To seperate them, he divide the world by these inpenetrable magical barriers (in my world - Cloud Walls) locking each of them away from each other.Thousands of years pass.  Entirely unique civilizations evolve.  Races Strive. Races Die.  Cultures, customs, mythologies evolve on their own, supported by the dieties that watch over them.Despite the devision, the captains of the dark power survived, though each in a different region.  In a concerted attack, they all struck at the same time trying to  gain control of their region.  In some places it succeeded.  In others, it failed.  Whatever the result, something happened to to the world, and the cloud walls began to dissipate.  No one knows why the ancient barriers began to fall, not even the gods, for the Creator has been silent.  In the end it doesn't really matter, because for the first time in several millenia these cultures are now coming into contact with each other... sometimes smoothely, but for the most part casing great conflict.  Colonialism, Religious wars, simple empire building, darkness encompassing, the world has been thrust into a new age - the Age of Fire.The above scenario allows me to have a world with the following in it:Middle Earth  Ansalon (Dragonlance)EredaneThe 7th SeaNyambeThe Iron KingdomsThe Shattered EmpiresRegions from Conan's HyboriaMesopotamiaTalislantaRegions from TestamentRegions from Trojan WarNaranjan HamunaptraRegions from MaidenheimRegions from ArduinMythic India, Japan, China, Viking, Celticplus my own fantasy materialNow I have a fully complete world, fully supported by dozens of gaming products that are 99% applicable, because each region believes their cosmology and religions are right- and they have been for thousands of years.I can run adventures/campaigns in any of the above settings, or cross settings if desired.Now all of these races, empires, religions, gods, variant magicks, technologies are coming into contact for the first time.Amazing story possibilities.Plus anyone familiar with a region, can GM in it.I will never fantasy game anywhere else.Hope this helps.Razuur(edited for spelling)</blockquote>

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