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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jürgen Hubert" data-source="post: 1321017" data-attributes="member: 7177">This is a very interesting thread for me, and I've considered many of the same points while developing <a href="http://juergen.the-huberts.net/dnd/urbis/index.html" target="_blank">Urbis</a>.There are some rather radical deviations from "standard" D&D fantasy worlds that are quite obvious from the start. Society is based on the Industrial Age instead of the Middle Ages. Towering cities dominate the landscape instead of lots of small villages, and  a part of the very life force of their inhabitants is drained to power all sorts of magical wonders and items, making huge crop yields and tightly packed cities possible. Truly, a world of thaumaturgical marvels and wonders...Yet I was constantly reminding myself that I didn't want to make the setting so exotic that it became hard to grasp for players new to it. I didn't want it to be like, say, Blue Planet - a beautiful and detailed setting that's so hard to summarize that many gaming group shy away from it.So I made up my mind to only use the rules from the d20 SRD - and next to no additions or substractions. All the monsters and races from the SRD have their place in Urbis, and I've only added new creatures to replace the ecological niches usually occupied by the likes of the mind flayers or yuan-ti (which aren't in the SRD). And I've also used real-world cultures liberally as basis for various regions - for example, the halfling homeland - the Siebenbund - is very obviously based on Switzerland.I've tried to add enough of the exotic to make the world fun - but enough of the familiar to make the world gameable.Have I suceeded? You tell me - I still need lots more feedback before I publish this...   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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