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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kkoie" data-source="post: 857535" data-attributes="member: 1160">This one rpg came out a few years ago called Nexus: the Infinate City.  The reason I bring it up is, the premise is that its an infinate sized city, made up of "quarters" from all sorts of dimensions, both future, present and historical.  The residents, as you can imagine, are everything.Why not steal some of that and create a world thats its own dimension or plane.  The technology is primarily steampunk, but you could easily establish quarters that varry slightly in available (and workable) technology.  The dimension could have a set border, or, it could be so vast, that no one truly knows how big it is...It could literally be a graveyard of civilazations.  Say, any time a city in any world/dimension suffers from a catastrophic event, the "soul" of the city gets transported to this dimension, thus the hodgepodge of differing cultures etc etc.  Huge vast chunks of the city could be deserted wastelands, for unknown reasons.  While other portions could be choking urban jungles, filled with people of a variety of nationalities, races, and beyond.You could go anywhere with this, establish one city as the primary base or location (possibly ruled by some mysterious god similar to Planescape), with all the other quarters surrounding it.  The primary tech level would be steampunk, due to the standards established by the primary quarter/city.If you wanted to introduce other cultures with higher or lower tech levels, you could rule that some tech works or doesn't work within the boundries of a certain quarter.  Say... one quarter from the 21st century has introduced computer technology, but once its taken into a quarter that hasn't gotten to that point, the technology stops working (due to the god?).  Other quarters could be closer to middleages tech, thus none of the PCs steamtech works there.Or you could just rule the whole plane has never gotten past steampunk tech levels.  but each quarter is a more alien, and differn't style location.Or, not worry about whether all tech works.  You could easly drop huge dangerous wastelands of urban expanse between where the PCs start and where some of the higher tech (or even Higher magic) leveled areas are located.  Shoot, with a plane this huge and chaotic, who's to say that people in the pc's area even are aware that some quarters have higher available technology?!Some laser pistols might actually be available in their area... but they'd be so rare and so highly prized... you'd have to take on an army of god knows what, just to get to it, let alone even find out it exists.Anyway, just some rambling thoughts. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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