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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 5696980" data-attributes="member: 1210">My homebrew, Cydra.Cydra is an infinite ocean, but it isn't flat. The campaign takes place on the inside surface of a gigantic air bubble approximately 750,000 miles in diameter. The Sun is a great orb of flame ignited one million years ago, more or less, by the god Galador. It orbits the island of Forinthia at a distance of approximately half a million miles and gives both light to the day and warmth to the oceans. Cydra has been played in fairly constantly since, oh, 1992 or thereabouts. Pcs have played primarily in seven different eras of the world's history, some separated by decades and some by thousands of years. Cydra's main theme was long the conflict between Law and Chaos, rather than Good and Evil, but the epic 3.5 game I ran finished that conflict off with Chaos victorious. In the subsequent centuries, pretty much all organized empires and kingdoms of size have collapsed, leaving a fairly depopulated, sparse, points-of-light style world in which the current crop of pcs made themselves local rulers by about 4th level. I am strongly dedicated to letting the pcs lead the game as much as they would like to, although there are always twenty more plot hooks dangling just out back behind the well (so to speak).Cydra actually goes back billions of years, though; it started as a sort of magical world simulation created by a guy who managed to take his demiplane and run when Tharizdun awoke and ate the multiverse in my old, 1980 to 1992 Oerth campaign. (The pcs failed in the end after obtaining what they needed to stop it; they took no steps to bolster their odds or give them rerolls or what have you in the final moment, and it came down to two d% rolls, low is better, to see how they did. 97... and 99.)So: A world I know better than anyone else does, with a ton of depth and history, about 20 years of documentation, maps, dungeons, monsters, spells, etc., and a free hand to ignore any 'canon' released by anyone else. Perfect for my tastes.</blockquote>

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