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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 2987303" data-attributes="member: 19675">First- everyone- THANK YOU!  Your suggestions have helped crystalize a lot of this for me.Revisions & Decisions:1)  The world will be beset by cyclic ELEs- a Godwar preturbed the planet's orbit, causing it to pass through the tail of a supercolossal arcanoactive comet every 50k yrs.  The crystallized mana falling from the sky is both curse and blessing- yes, it causes mass extinctions...but the magic within its debris accellerates the recovery period... The world is currently passing through the 3rd Age of Recovery.2)  The PC races have changed somewhat.  I became convinced that, despite the setting's demand of mass extinctions, few players (in my group, anyway) would want to play in a world where being human was simply not an option...and there are certain aspects of human psychology I want to explore...  Some of the races I had under consideration simply wouldn't work, or overlapped significantly with other races.So, the PC races:  Humans; Mountain Dwarves; Green Elves (w/Woodling or equivalent template); Kobolds (replacing Feral Halflings); Drow; Duregar; Warforged; Planetouched (Aasimar, Genasi, Tiefling); Thri-Kreen; Githzerai; Githyanki; Anthropomorphic Animals; Awakened Animals; Wolfen (albeit altered from the ENWorld version- taking the place of giantkind).Half-Dragons may still make the cut.  Illithids and the other Aberrations of the world will remain NPC only.3)  I have a whole bunch of adventure seeds typed into my PDA, and I have designed my first organized adversary for the campaign.The Verdant Hand.  Symbol: the outline of a "human" hand, done in green pigment.  This is a group of Druids, Rangers and other like-minded individuals who think the world is better off since the ELEs started, and thus actively work to thwart the re-emergence of civilization.  Some members may have ulterior motives- like maintaining their personal power.  Their symbol is always present when they interfere with the works of others- both a calling card and a warning.4)  Still haven't settled on a magic system yet...Re: 2 & 3 above: One of the tactics of the Verdant Hands is the same as that of the Green Council that preceeded them- Awakening creatures and plants- but to serve THEIR purposes.  Some of these animals were subsequently altered by magic to become even more dangerous...To that end, I was wondering if there were any published d20 stats on critters something like H.R. Giger's Alien, George R. R. Martin's Sandkings, or Robert Heinlein's bugs from Starship Troopers.</blockquote>

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