GreatLemur
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Last updated in 2002? Damn, you ain't lyin. Lotta dead links, too.Michael Morris said:
Enworld Co-OP Campaign Setting
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Tonguez
A suffusion of yellow
What about if this isn't the first invasion
perhaps there is an ancient civilisation of Abberations and the Chuul are coming back to reclaim it.
In fact with if the World was the original Chuul homeworld which in ancient times was invaded by advanced (Psionic) Humans. The original Chuul and Ultra-humans clashed and the ambient fall out casued some humans to degrade into goblinoids (who are swamp dwellers due to their Chuul heritage). Giants and Gnolls might also be races devolved from humans.
Anyway the older Abberation empire destroyed with the Abberations fleeing off into the Far realms. The Ultra-human civilisation spread but it to ewventually fell into ruin and was all but forgotten
Perhaps the 'Tibetan Culture' was lucky enough to stumble across Ultra-Human artifacts which allowed them to advance at a more rapid rate than the surrounding nations who are still neolithic
Perhaps the Chuul are in fact justified as they just want to come home
(and destroy any obstacle in an icky abberant manner)
perhaps there is an ancient civilisation of Abberations and the Chuul are coming back to reclaim it.
In fact with if the World was the original Chuul homeworld which in ancient times was invaded by advanced (Psionic) Humans. The original Chuul and Ultra-humans clashed and the ambient fall out casued some humans to degrade into goblinoids (who are swamp dwellers due to their Chuul heritage). Giants and Gnolls might also be races devolved from humans.
Anyway the older Abberation empire destroyed with the Abberations fleeing off into the Far realms. The Ultra-human civilisation spread but it to ewventually fell into ruin and was all but forgotten
Perhaps the 'Tibetan Culture' was lucky enough to stumble across Ultra-Human artifacts which allowed them to advance at a more rapid rate than the surrounding nations who are still neolithic
Perhaps the Chuul are in fact justified as they just want to come home
(and destroy any obstacle in an icky abberant manner)
Kafkonia
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Sir Elton said:
Well, the problem is that Eberron threw in most everything but the kitchen sink.
There's a limited number of humanoids to work with in the SRD, after all.One option is to eliminate all of them. Perhaps humans and the Atlanteans/aquatic elves were the only intelligent species on this world before the arrival of the invasion. The abberations brought their existing humanoid slaves (orcs, perhaps goblins and their ilk) and were followed by rebellious former slaves (dwarves.) Other species -- monstrous humanoids, lycanthropes, etc -- are recent developments of the non-aberrations experimenting with altering the beings of their world before the aberrations can do so.
Tonguez said:What about if this isn't the first invasion
perhaps there is an ancient civilisation of Abberations and the Chuul are coming back to reclaim it.
In fact with if the World was the original Chuul homeworld which in ancient times was invaded by advanced (Psionic) Humans. The original Chuul and Ultra-humans clashed and the ambient fall out casued some humans to degrade into goblinoids (who are swamp dwellers due to their Chuul heritage). Giants and Gnolls might also be races devolved from humans.
Anyway the older Abberation empire destroyed with the Abberations fleeing off into the Far realms. The Ultra-human civilisation spread but it to ewventually fell into ruin and was all but forgotten
Perhaps the 'Tibetan Culture' was lucky enough to stumble across Ultra-Human artifacts which allowed them to advance at a more rapid rate than the surrounding nations who are still neolithic
Perhaps the Chuul are in fact justified as they just want to come home
OOOOOHHHH! I love this!!
Michael Morris
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I dunno. I wasn't on that project's dev - it actually predates most of my involvement with ENWorld. And I'm not saying that you guys should quit what your doing to help out with Daemonforge. What I am saying I guess is there are some pieces of a setting lying around to tinker with if your so inclined.
I could try to scare up Leopold on Nothingland if you want though. He was on the project way back when.
I could try to scare up Leopold on Nothingland if you want though. He was on the project way back when.
GreatLemur
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That's a nice, interesting angle. I'm less interested in the racial origin stories you mentioned, but the idea of the world having previously belonged to the aberrations is an interesting one. The one thing that doesn't really fit about it, though, would be the fact that it kind of ignores the cool "invaders reshaping the environment" angle.Tonguez said:
...Unless the original human invaders set up artifacts to terraform the world, and all the aberrations have to do is destroy them. Oh, that could be really cool. So maybe the world has been dotten by these giant stone structures that everyone has forgotten are responsible for maintaining their environment in a survivable form. Now, the invaders--really the original inhabitants of the world--have shown up, and by destroying the mysterious structures, they're letting the world's true atmosphere and biosphere return. So, even once they manage to learn what's happening, the world's current inhabitants are faced with a choice: try to fight back the invasion and somehow repair the ancient terraformers, or try to flee the world to their original home . . . without knowing how to get there, or why their ancestors left it in the first place.
That could seriously rock.
Raven Crowking
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GreatLemur said:
QFT.
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