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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gardens &amp; Goblins" data-source="post: 7438357" data-attributes="member: 6846794">Sure - all the worlds are set in the same campaign, with the ability to move between them based on portals and/or tech that creates portals, typically rare unless a group/adventure requires it to not be so.I'll put one of them here, as I've not got much time IRL. [sblock]Each world has grown organically, through collaboration between the table and myself, with the table acting as a sounding board for ideas, both outside of each adventure and through play.There's a long fluffy narrative that serves to provide context which I won't go into here. The footnotes might read: First magic user creates creates own universe, adds a world, populates it with experiments, things go bad. World split into either three possible alternative/time lines or past/present/future of same world, depending on what we decide.World one: built around the concepts of prejudice, flying and education. Referred to as the 'Sky Realm' and consists of countless floating/flying rocks, ranging in size from pebbles all the way over to huge islands, all floating above a swirling violent malestrom of magic energy. This was where play began, with us adopting micro-style of play, focusing on a few towns, surrounded by a range of mountains. The theme of education and prejudice evolved from the governing/ruling body, a (supposedly) true meritocracy which resembles England during the early part of Victorian Era England/the Industrial Revolution. Magic is called Science but is actually magic, simply formalized and unified under the rule of Universities. It is widely known that magic is actual a manifestation of mental illness and as such, those claiming to practice magic are carted off to various facilities for treatment, which can range from a place that will actually try to 'help' its patients to the worst possible Victorian asylum, complete with invasive surgical procedures and experimentation. It should be noted that claiming you've witnessed 'magic' is also likely to get your carted off for 'therapy' so there's a general atmosphere of paranoia and repression.On the flip side, those that play ball and find a way to function in the society find themselves with access to an abundance of <s>magical</s> scientific learning, complete with its own gatekeepers, in the form of old men (women? Science? Ha!), tests and tradition of publishing papers that are then peer-reviewed. In game terms, players potentially have access to any spell up to 4th level, though they'll have to jump through an increasingly maddening number of hoops to get a fraction of them. Its great to be a guy, sucks to be a girl and children are a key component of the labour force. Zooming out, the overall world's themes of prejudice, flying and education are represented by the one human* civlization, known as the Sanctuary of Reason, expanding their influence through the use of steam/storm punk technology (airships, cloud farming etc) into the skies beyond their one island home, in a classic imperialistic manner. All other peoples are savages and like the dungeons, tombs and ancient ruins are there to be claimed so as to further the glory of the empire.The key plot point is the arrival of another civilization, a race of dragonborn, that has decided to return from their evacuation site (the jungle moon) to the planet which they blame the Sanctuary of Reason for destroying. They rock around using magical stone structures (flying stepped pyramids), wyverns and kobolds (dragonlings), a mix of clerical nature magic (formalized, dogmatic natural magic) and are divided amongst themselves over a race to be the first to breed a 'true dragon' from their sorcerers.Naturally, the Sanctuary of Reason publicly denies the existence of such creatures, resulting in gossip and speculation, all of which is likely to get a citizen sent to the nearest therapy centre. For the good of the empire!*..humans in as much as we use most the races in the PhB (and a few beyond), reskinned as humans - so elves are skinny humans that sleep less, dwarves are stout humans that are tougher than most etc.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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