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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Viking Bastard" data-source="post: 6350640" data-attributes="member: 509">We're one session into Against the Giants. I reskinned the five backgrounds included in Basic as the five most powerful factions in Geoff, each supplying a hero for the quest to take down the giants. Other than that, the session gave birth to the following details:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Giants used to rule the lands, until the Humans, Elves, Dwarves and Halflings united against them, ending their reign.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">This was the start of the current dominant civilization composed of the Basic races.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">There have been many, many great civilizations throughout history. Most self-destructed due to their own hubris, usually shortly after discovering 10th level spells.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">This is a very old world, battered and fractured by eons of abuse. As in millions of years of history, hundreds of empires.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The High Elves are dying, each generation lives shorter than the last--at the height of their glory they counted their lifespans in tens of thousands of years, now few live to see a millennium.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The first Wood Elves started popping up a few centuries ago in isolated tribes around the world. These new elves were short lived, ignorant and wild, but in only a handful of lifetimes they have formed varied cultures and the current generation has reached a lifespan comparable to humans.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Giants are cousins to dwarves and thus most find the idea of eating a dwarf distasteful. They generally find dwarves hilarious, though, and take great pleasure in torturing them and humiliating.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Giants don't eat elves either, for they find the taste foul, as of all other fey creatures. They hate elves and their magic--they fear them and will take care to squash any they encounter ASAP.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">But Giants also find humans and halflings delicious and used to breed the races like cattle.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">All powerful godlike beings started out as mortal and had to work for their immortality. No such current/active entity claims to have created the world.</li> </ul>So that's the campaign setting as it currently stands.</blockquote>

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