Not you typical fantasy setting
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tecnowraith
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I've been wandering if I changed the way (our) Earth looks and feel through a magical/mystical event sometime in the past and the changes are drastic enough to having a unique look and feel, and the setting begins in the year 2000 or so, would it still be modern or post apocalyptic?
It's all up to you- it will feel the way you MAKE it feel.
Some races will make your game feel more post apocalypticmthan others- Anthro cockroaches, for instance.
Some races will make your game feel more post apocalypticmthan others- Anthro cockroaches, for instance.
tecnowraith
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Been wandering how far back in my timeline for my modern fantasy should I change "our" history to add magic and fantasy creatures or have them return to the world? Which era would be a good jump point? I want to have it where a ritual has either gone wrong or right depend certain points of view open changed everything form opening a rift to re-awaking magic.
Tonguez
A suffusion of yellow
That again is all up to you and the places and themes you want to play with
It could be that the 'fantastic' has always been there - Perhaps the Romans were hobgoblins and the mongols centaurs, maybe Queen Elizabeth was half-fey, Jack the Ripper a ghoul and Paul Bunyan a real giant.
Or it could have been any event in history - the detonation of the Atomic bomb opened an inter-dimensional portal, perhaps Haileys comet seeded the world with arcane spores, perhaps CERN Collider shifted the orbit of the earth to 'somewhere else". Perhaps the events of Ghostbusters were historic and Gozer the Gozerian now rules New York.
It could be that the 'fantastic' has always been there - Perhaps the Romans were hobgoblins and the mongols centaurs, maybe Queen Elizabeth was half-fey, Jack the Ripper a ghoul and Paul Bunyan a real giant.
Or it could have been any event in history - the detonation of the Atomic bomb opened an inter-dimensional portal, perhaps Haileys comet seeded the world with arcane spores, perhaps CERN Collider shifted the orbit of the earth to 'somewhere else". Perhaps the events of Ghostbusters were historic and Gozer the Gozerian now rules New York.
tecnowraith
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Lately I have been thinking it might be simpler to go the traditional route and create the world from scratch have some places resemble and have the same name as Earth. some like Dragon Ball and Final Fantasy.
tecnowraith
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I am seriously thinking of going the the Dragon ball/full metal alchemist route, create a world similar to earth, calling it earth, have some regions have the same names as earth but have the shape of the continents different
Nothing wrong with that- alternative earths are common enough and it saves you a LOT of work.
tecnowraith
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With a lot thinking and researching, I had an idea for my playable races are gonna be done as factions in a way. here is what I have written so for: In this version of Earth, creatures of old have live among us witnessing the progress of the world bloom to what is it today. Several factions of these ancient beings are known as Fair Folk and Aberrants, both have unique features born too them making different from each other. For mechanics you play Fae and supernatural lovecraftian races able to pick traits in physical features and powers. You will also be able play Awaken Animals cool its cool and have been done much RPG setting.
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