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<blockquote data-quote="Kzach" data-source="post: 5874633" data-attributes="member: 56189">I've been working on my homebrew setting for umpteen years and one of the things I decided that I wanted to be a core concept within the setting is that I took magic into account, not just in terms of technology or societal impact, but as a holistic effect that had repercussions throughout the entire history of the world.That meant doing away ENTIRELY with real-world flora and fauna. That's not to say that things look alien and surreal, just to say that I've gone to the effort to invent various things and make certain assumptions like there only being dire versions of animals (they're the only ones who could survive in such a world), making up a few major trees so instead of saying you're entering a pine forest, I can say you're entering a meloch forest, etc.It's a lot of work but I also feel it gives players a much greater sense of being in a fantasy world where elves, dwarves, humans and fantastical creatures live alongside each other and compete for survival and it all making 'sense' instead of feeling as if it's all just shoe-horned in for the sake of living up to certain tropes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kzach, post: 5874633, member: 56189"] I've been working on my homebrew setting for umpteen years and one of the things I decided that I wanted to be a core concept within the setting is that I took magic into account, not just in terms of technology or societal impact, but as a holistic effect that had repercussions throughout the entire history of the world. That meant doing away ENTIRELY with real-world flora and fauna. That's not to say that things look alien and surreal, just to say that I've gone to the effort to invent various things and make certain assumptions like there only being dire versions of animals (they're the only ones who could survive in such a world), making up a few major trees so instead of saying you're entering a pine forest, I can say you're entering a meloch forest, etc. It's a lot of work but I also feel it gives players a much greater sense of being in a fantasy world where elves, dwarves, humans and fantastical creatures live alongside each other and compete for survival and it all making 'sense' instead of feeling as if it's all just shoe-horned in for the sake of living up to certain tropes. [/QUOTE]

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