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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daniel Knight" data-source="post: 12360" data-attributes="member: 1113">Hehehe… one of the things I love about hearing things like this, is that you’ve inadvertently suggested something I hadn’t thought of by interpreting what I had written differently.I was actually thinking that the first people to land on the planet were Spelljammers.  So although there is a strong sci-fi element, there aren’t any unusual technologies lying about for the players to discover.  But now after your posting, I’m starting to rethink this.  It could be an interesting thing to come into play later on.  Maybe it was a spaceship that landed, but through the eons the story has been altered to use the more “believable” Spelljamming ships… created at some point after the first landing with the discovery of magic.  Could be fun for the PCs to discover the horrible truth when they reach higher level.  Oooh… you’ve got me gears clinking over.The gods in Seskotspace have pretty much the same standard influence as any campaign world.  There are of course fanatics, and the odd splinter group much like the Planescape factions, but these don’t often play a major role in the common man’s world.  They usually run about in their secret societies stabbing one another in the back in the name of Jade Goddess of the Night, or forming self-help circles in the name of Beldon God of Virtue.  The gods themselves only meddle in the affairs of the common person when the common person meddle in their affairs.  Such as when the now legendary thief Shi stole the secrets of sorcery from them causing the Retribution.  The Retribution being the world’s cataclysmic event that seem to shape most fantasy worlds.  Magic certainly does function in the world.  It depends on which region you’re in however as to whether it’s common or not.  In Rendland and Gimlet, they have a very negative view towards magic after the Retribution shattered their countries.  In Rendland it’s actually illegal to wield a spell and is always associated with dark powers and the undead.  But then there are places like the small island of Candlewick, which consumes and produces enough magic to run a large continent.  It’s all a matter of location and culture.As has been noted, the act of casting spells without study (sorcery) was stolen from the gods in ages past.  Sorcerers in most places are often viewed with caution and distrust.  Their eyes enhancing to a metallic colour when they first manafist their powers, doesn’t help their reputation either.Psionics is a relatively knew discovery (about thirty years), being manifested by those who consider themselves higher on the evolutionary scale then common man.  And in some ways they’re correct.  Only five years ago they created Psi-Orbital REX, an experiment to create a planet that could shape and mold to their wishes.  Things went bad in the experiment however as the planet managed to formulate a crude form of intelligence.  Psi-Orbital REX now orbits the jungle planet Vanoosh as a moon, and is possible to reach via the normal means of Spelljamming.</blockquote>

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