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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Goblyns Hoard" data-source="post: 1686087" data-attributes="member: 19970">Interesting idea - particularly to me (I'm a geneticist)Let me make sure I'm getting this straight - someone created a virus to improve human mental capability.  It somehow escaped, and started infecting and transforming humans and animals alike.  Thus the virus itself created the various races and monsters that you'll be using.  And all technology has disappeared.Questions:Are you using all races and mosnters or just certain onesAre you completely destroying all technology or just in the 'main area of play'The idea I have is that the virus itself was so badly designed in the first place that it started killing on a vast scale.  All air travel with the infected zone was immediately cut-off, and a nuclear strike used in an attempt to eradicate the virus - scorched earth policy.  But the combination of the mutagenic nature of the virus and the radiation created various monsters.But the reactions were too slow the virus did get out, and the process was repeated a number of times - this means all your highest tech places (The US, EU, Japan, India, Australia, etc. anywhere with large use of air transport) gets devastated by a bunch of politicians hiding away in bunkers somewhere.During this time the virus is mutating.  And some of those mutations are less virulent than the oiriginal.  These result in some significant changes in the populations that each of them arise in - hence your races.  Generally speaking these will be in those more remote areas which don't use air travel as much.  The elves could have come from somewhere like the Amazon, Dwarves from the Himalayas, Orcs from the Mongolian steppes, etc.  Gives you a range of cultures to go with.  One of these is still for all intents and purposes 'human'.This gives you your mutated monsters, and a reason for the lack of prevalent high tech.  And you could also have a population of high-tech old humans living in bunkers deep under the US, which were sheltered from the strikes and aren't coming out yet because of radiation problems.  They could even still have satellite access and be watching the world develop.So the new civilisation - which had grown out of the surviving remote populations may still remember the 'Golden Age', but most of it will be legends.  Any trech that did survive will have fallen apart by now - though the odd artifact may have survived.</blockquote>

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