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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9294123" data-attributes="member: 2209">I do my mashup setting because I like a bunch of elements of multiple existing things and dislike a bunch of elements of a bunch of stuff and enjoy doing the syncretisms of multiple things I like to make it make sense for me and to allow using a bunch of diverse stuff fairly easily and incorporate new things easily. It also allows me to not deal with a lot of canon issues as I specifically do not use anything straight and whole.I can easily riff on a lot of theme stuff without looking a lot up so it is easy for me to think how to run modules or classes with it as a backdrop or tie things in as they come up.I really like <a href="https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/11959/ptolus-a-player-s-guide-to-ptolus?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Ptolus</a>'s theocratic declining hentotheistic empire engulfed in a civil succession war, it draws a lot of power players into the war so there is more room for the PCs in modules to be the biggest people around to deal with problems like monsters. The Lothian church being based on a martyred sun themed paladin allows a lot of familiar medieval christian church aspects to be culturally dominant, but Henotheism allows the typical D&D pantheism and other gods to be present, sometimes peacefully, sometimes in tension.I hate Ptolus's closed cosmology and I am not a big fan of their moon stuff though so I do not use those, also I use a bit of a different timeline with the war being active. I've built out a couple of the imperial factions and tied them into Eberron and its Last War as if the war were current.I use a 3e inspired concept that all divine magic is a magical tradition that taps a specific source of magical power, not direct power from gods who oversee their clerics, so there are heresies and theologies and corrupt spellcasting priests and paladins who just work and nontheistic religions and multiple different pantheons and non theistic clerics and druids, and questions about what is and is not a god, such as dragon cults of specific living dragons.I really like Golarion and a bunch of its stuff, so that is a big secondary theme with a bunch of Golarion nations being provinces of the Holy Lothian empire.So when running the Pathfinder Carrion Crown adventure path the Golarion principality of Ustalav is part of the Lothian Empire with the prince pushing his claim for the throne, which also ties into Eberron Karrnathi themes and allows me to tie the Whispering Way and Blood of Vol stuff a bit together. With the Prince leading armies against other factions it means the AP ghost story is mostly up to the PCs to deal with, locally there is only an elderly cleric and a couple too-young for the war altar boys instead of a big resource of imperial lothian church crusaders to call on to deal with it.I have run multiple campaigns in this setting with a bunch of Pathfinder adventure paths, the Freeport trilogy, and other modules all being slotted in fairly easily for me.</blockquote>

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