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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Cardinal" data-source="post: 1147049" data-attributes="member: 634">I'm glad you like it, but since I'm not convinced that this requires a whole new thread:Rains of ManaIt's 1702. 20 years ago a great comet appeared (Halley will not publish his theory on this one until 1705) in the skies - and the world changed: Maybe some ritual worked better than planned (i.e. at all), maybe the comet brought *something* with it, maybe someone *failed* to perform an important ritual... Whatever it was, it caused the level of mana, of magical energies, on Earth to rise exponentially - with a devastating side-effect: the enormous amounts of additional energy flowing around the planet caused an enormous rise in global temperatures, a kind of magical hothouse effect. And that was not all. While storms and floods drowned millions of people, things - and people - *changed*: vulcanic and earthquake activities rose to unknown proportions, humans woke up one morning to learn that they had turned into strange fairy creatures (dwarfs, elfs, centaurs, trolls, ghouls, etc.), or that their petty curses *worked*! In more exotic or remote areas of the world whole cities, tribes, or nations, even seemed to change *retroactively*, remembering a past of magic and monsters that never happened (?), and in other places men soon learned that some things and objects of legend or fame suddenly had *real* powers... Now, 20 years later, the age of piracy is still on the rise: with London drowned, Spain is again a great (if decadent) power, the death of the Netherlands created thousands of dutch pirates, faraway China (or what the floods have left of it) is haunted by ghosts and strange monsters and has fallen into a permanent state of civil war, jungles and forests have grown with supernatural speed all over the globe, but the deserts of the world are even more hot and deadly than before, large sections of the Alps are controlled by fiercely independent dwarfs, ghouls stalk the graveyards of Algier and Alexandria, inner Asia now has bloodthirsty tribes of centaurs, and the red indians of North America now share the plains and forests with a strange but hardy breed of humanoids commonly called "orcs"... System: GURPS, especially Swashbucklers, Magic Items 1-3, Fantasy Folk, Undead and Myth; advanced combat system, martial fencing rules; knack magic and magery are available to PCs PCs: 200 pts. and up to 45 pts. from disadvantages - most people are still human, but you may also pick any fantasy race you wantMap: a global map showing Earth after the 1682 reality quake (i.e. without the polar icecaps and about 80 meters higher sealevels) can be found here <a href="http://flatplanet.sourceforge.net/maps/images/earthicefree.jpg" target="_blank">http://flatplanet.sourceforge.net/maps/images/earthicefree.jpg</a>On a smaller scale, however, this map is not altogether accurate for the setting since the rise in volcanic activities combined with local reality quake effects created lots of new islands...</blockquote>

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