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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jürgen Hubert" data-source="post: 1608681" data-attributes="member: 7177">With <a href="http://juergen.the-huberts.net/dnd/urbis/index.html" target="_blank">Urbis</a>, it started with two "big ideas": The first one was that I wanted to create a setting that explained all the weird bits of the D&D rules - where all the magic items come from, how spells like raise dead affect society and spells like fireball and invisibility affect warfare, and why there are so many weird critters running around that look like they couldn't have possibly evolved in a terrestrial environment. The second idea was that I wanted some really big cities - not just with a few thousand inhabitants, but hundreds of thousands, or even millions crammed into a single settlement.Then I hit on the concept of the <a href="http://juergen.the-huberts.net/dnd/urbis/nexus_towers.html" target="_blank">Nexus Tower</a>, which justified the latter and helped explain quite a few things of the former. From this I slowly developed the ideas for a quasi-Victorian society where vast magical prowess and urban dystopia live side by side.Then I started brainstorming - I kept a notebook (the traditional paper version) in which I wrote down ideas for different regions, cities, locations, and other cool concepts (every would-be world builder should keep a notebook with him at all times!). Now the various regions of the world have pretty much taken shape, and a few of the regions are fairly fixed now. But there's always more things to add, and much to do before I eventually publish it...</blockquote>

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