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<blockquote data-quote="timbannock" data-source="post: 7690408" data-attributes="member: 17913"><p>Yeah, pretty much this.</p><p></p><p>It's not sword-and-sorcery in the true sense, it's thoroughly D&D. But it makes a lot of pretty overt nods to sword-and-sorcery through a D&D lens, and the post-apocalyptic nature of the world is very powerfully written into the setting in every way. Thus, while there's still plenty of D&D's core high-fantasy points and tropes, the world as a whole feels considerably more dangerous and "barren" (not empty, but more unmapped and dangerously wild) than so many other kitchen sink style D&D settings.</p><p></p><p>Although not necessarily true of lots of places within the setting, there's also the fact that several places have a decidedly horror style to them, as well. Hallowfaust is filled with necromancers and undead (though they are not *all* evil mwuahahaha villainy types), and the Blood Bayou area is absolutely oozing with horror tropes.</p><p></p><p>The Titan/God war is also extremely epic and it touches on nearly every setting element in an immediate sense, so you don't have long stretches of history that don't really matter to the world's inhabitants, because they can literally walk outside and look at the corpse of some deity or monstrosity from the war.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="timbannock, post: 7690408, member: 17913"] Yeah, pretty much this. It's not sword-and-sorcery in the true sense, it's thoroughly D&D. But it makes a lot of pretty overt nods to sword-and-sorcery through a D&D lens, and the post-apocalyptic nature of the world is very powerfully written into the setting in every way. Thus, while there's still plenty of D&D's core high-fantasy points and tropes, the world as a whole feels considerably more dangerous and "barren" (not empty, but more unmapped and dangerously wild) than so many other kitchen sink style D&D settings. Although not necessarily true of lots of places within the setting, there's also the fact that several places have a decidedly horror style to them, as well. Hallowfaust is filled with necromancers and undead (though they are not *all* evil mwuahahaha villainy types), and the Blood Bayou area is absolutely oozing with horror tropes. The Titan/God war is also extremely epic and it touches on nearly every setting element in an immediate sense, so you don't have long stretches of history that don't really matter to the world's inhabitants, because they can literally walk outside and look at the corpse of some deity or monstrosity from the war. [/QUOTE]
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