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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GMforPowergamers" data-source="post: 6254054" data-attributes="member: 67338">SO last night Ross (the DM) emailed everyone that he had gotten a bunch of Pathfinder PDFs and wanted to try the game. He did send out his 'pitch' for the game, but I'm at a loss as to what to make of it. I don't see what about it says it can't be run in any system.He doesn't want to run 3.5 because he wants to try something new and has a half dozen new PDFs... he did say he will think about how to make the game more palatable and we can all talk on Saturday. [sblock=the pitch]The empire is everywhere… but so is the rebels.A thousand years ago there were a dozen kingdoms and twice that in city states dotting the land. Most of their names have been lost to history. Back then the gods were all powerful and the great Titans slept.  Then came the Titan war. The titans awoke and tried to kill the gods, and the gods asked the faithful to help them defat ether ancient enemies.A few hundred years ago there were only 4 powerful kingdoms. The Elves and Kenders had great cities built inside the trees, literally. The trees were made into extra dimensional spaces. The Dwarves and Gnomes had great cities under the mountains, where they burned material to create basic steam driven minning equipment. The humans had 2 kingdoms, in the south sorcerers who had abandoned the gods and worshiped dragons, and in the north barbarians that lived with frost giants.Just as things settled down, three forces began to move almost at once. A necromancer in the south rose an entire city of undead.  Inside the mystic woods the Orcs rallied under a new warlord with oger blood. The mountains were besieged by goblioides being led by a new Hobgoblin warlord.It was at this time that the four kingdoms had to unite to work stop these threats, and a set of heroes emerged. The gods themselves blessed a group of soldiers creating the first Paladins. They started to turn the tide of the war, but it was still a war on three fronts and hard to do.The Necromancer to the south struck a blow against the Gods themselves and somehow forced them from there realms to the world. This event shattered planar boundaries and the Demon hoards started pouring into the world.When everything looked its bleakest one Paliden and his elite team surge up and took command. His name was Valruin, and he not only defeated the Necromancer and sent his undead back to the graves, he also single handily killed the leader of the Orc tribes sending them back to splintered savages. He brought the Hobgoblins to heal under himself and united 9/10 the world under his banner. The final threat was handled when he slew his own god, now in mortal form during a ritual that resealed the boundaries to the world.That was 150 years ago. Today most of the world lives under the thumb of the God Emperor Valruin, and his councle of Dark gods and wizards. In order to assure peace his laws and commandments have become more and more evil and oppressive. Today everyone works for the state as pretty much slaves. Worship of any god other than the God Emperor is punishable by death, as is stealing, lying, and a hundred other ‘crimes’. There are 67 regions, each controlled by a major city with their own Baron, each baron reports to the counsel under the God Emperor.  There are 11 counselers, 6 Archmages, 2 Archpsions, a pitfiend, and 2 of the old evil gods. Each has 6 barons under them. The one remaining region is directly controlled by the capitol.Using magitech there are lightning rails that connect most of the regions in a giant spider web of tracks, and airships that they also use for trade. Recently a Rebal force has been blowing up parts of these cities. Called terrorist by some and freedom fighters by others, their goal seems to be to topple the government. There are also still wild tribes of orcs out there, and barbaric humans in the north that never swore loyalty to the God Empereor. Hidden away in most large cities are secret cults that whorship the old gods, and rumors say they have power.PCs will be first level and be starting a small resistance trying to hook up with the rebels that are somehow making large bombs… [/sblock]edit: oh and a new red flag... Ross is one of those players that made me hate Kenders... and that race was droped in pitch...   DANGER DANGER DANGER WILL ROBINSON</blockquote>

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