Bonehoard Taffer
First Post
jdavis,
you are asking some very good and (in some cases) very difficult questions. Some of them I have answers for, some I don't. I need to focus in though, and quit jumping around I think, and concentrate on one thing at a time.
Most of the good/safe areas, I have decided, exist within the walled confines of the cities. That's one reason for clerics and paladins, to make the cities safe for the normal population. Another reason that the holy people exist is because they always have. Their existence predates the dark times. When problems began to surface, their duties changed a bit and protecting innocents became a priority. Actually, the paladins won't be traditional D&D paladins. But the LG ones will have some of the same characteristics. I have decided to make the paladin type more of a prestige class, where upon achieving it, there is some kind of knighting ceremony. To qualify for this, isn't as much a LG thing as it is being courageous and valorous.
As far as the roles the clerics play, they do a lot more rituals of blessing and sanctification to help people resist the effects of the neg. energy. Also their are laws in place making church/temple attendence manditory. So, some of the clerics would also fulfill roles similar to that of an inquisitor.
Yes people do exist outside the safe areas, but conditions aren't good. How bad? I am not sure yet. I am working on something where exposure to neg. energy would be similar to the effects radiation has on ones genetic make up.
The mind flayers are behind the whole thing. They have bulit an artifact that withdrawls neg. energy from the universe in an attempt to convert that neg. energy into a power that would amplify their own psionic power. Most of them remain safe by staying in the underdark. There are some however that protect the artifact, which is located high atop some mountains well hidden and well protected.
I like your idea of a temple located in the heart of undead teritory, as the means (or one way) characters arrive at the truth.
The world itself has been changing this way for the last 5 centuries.
These are a few thoughts I have had. So far there is actually very few things written in stone.
you are asking some very good and (in some cases) very difficult questions. Some of them I have answers for, some I don't. I need to focus in though, and quit jumping around I think, and concentrate on one thing at a time.
Most of the good/safe areas, I have decided, exist within the walled confines of the cities. That's one reason for clerics and paladins, to make the cities safe for the normal population. Another reason that the holy people exist is because they always have. Their existence predates the dark times. When problems began to surface, their duties changed a bit and protecting innocents became a priority. Actually, the paladins won't be traditional D&D paladins. But the LG ones will have some of the same characteristics. I have decided to make the paladin type more of a prestige class, where upon achieving it, there is some kind of knighting ceremony. To qualify for this, isn't as much a LG thing as it is being courageous and valorous.
As far as the roles the clerics play, they do a lot more rituals of blessing and sanctification to help people resist the effects of the neg. energy. Also their are laws in place making church/temple attendence manditory. So, some of the clerics would also fulfill roles similar to that of an inquisitor.
Yes people do exist outside the safe areas, but conditions aren't good. How bad? I am not sure yet. I am working on something where exposure to neg. energy would be similar to the effects radiation has on ones genetic make up.
The mind flayers are behind the whole thing. They have bulit an artifact that withdrawls neg. energy from the universe in an attempt to convert that neg. energy into a power that would amplify their own psionic power. Most of them remain safe by staying in the underdark. There are some however that protect the artifact, which is located high atop some mountains well hidden and well protected.
I like your idea of a temple located in the heart of undead teritory, as the means (or one way) characters arrive at the truth.
The world itself has been changing this way for the last 5 centuries.
These are a few thoughts I have had. So far there is actually very few things written in stone.
but it's swarming with new undead types. It also has a brand new dragon concept that sounds like it would work quite well with your Old Black concept.
