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<blockquote data-quote="Jürgen Hubert" data-source="post: 3510261" data-attributes="member: 7177">There hasn't been any serious attempt to make it a coherent setting in its own right. Instead, it was a thin pastiche of the existing D&amp;D setting - something to visit for groundhuggers who wanted to see something more. And that's what held it back.If I were to rerelease it, I'd do it this way: I'd release a &quot;default&quot; setting that is strongly inspired by the 17th century Age of Sail.You'd have a small cluster of &quot;core spheres&quot; that are fairly advanced and can support true interstellar navies. This is analogous to 17th century Europe and its Great Powers, who constantly scheme and vie for power with each other - and occasionally go to war with a rival.Then you'd have a larger cluster of spheres around this. These are partially colonized by the Core Powers - primitive in some ways, but they have resources or strategic locations that are of interest to the interstellar powers. But there is plenty of wilderness still remaining in them - as well as all sorts of weirdness that the &quot;civilized people&quot; of the Core Spheres must struggle against.And then you have the Periphery - the spheres outside of the influence of the Core Powers. Here the scro, mind flayers, beholders and worse lurk. But there are also untold riches to be claimed by brave adventurers (a fabled &quot;Planet of Gold&quot;, perhaps), and a bold enough crew might be able to claim a new world for his Core Power - or even himself.There should be a real sense of history in this setting - how the power of the Elven Navy waned, how the Core Powers came into being and how their rivalries developed, and what kind of wars and other incidents have been occupying the minds of spacefarers. All in all, it should be a setting the players can truly immerse themselves into.And that, IMO, requires more than random tables whether any given world is cube- or torus-shaped.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jürgen Hubert, post: 3510261, member: 7177"] There hasn't been any serious attempt to make it a coherent setting in its own right. Instead, it was a thin pastiche of the existing D&D setting - something to visit for groundhuggers who wanted to see something more. And that's what held it back. If I were to rerelease it, I'd do it this way: I'd release a "default" setting that is strongly inspired by the 17th century Age of Sail. You'd have a small cluster of "core spheres" that are fairly advanced and can support true interstellar navies. This is analogous to 17th century Europe and its Great Powers, who constantly scheme and vie for power with each other - and occasionally go to war with a rival. Then you'd have a larger cluster of spheres around this. These are partially colonized by the Core Powers - primitive in some ways, but they have resources or strategic locations that are of interest to the interstellar powers. But there is plenty of wilderness still remaining in them - as well as all sorts of weirdness that the "civilized people" of the Core Spheres must struggle against. And then you have the Periphery - the spheres outside of the influence of the Core Powers. Here the scro, mind flayers, beholders and worse lurk. But there are also untold riches to be claimed by brave adventurers (a fabled "Planet of Gold", perhaps), and a bold enough crew might be able to claim a new world for his Core Power - or even himself. There should be a real sense of history in this setting - how the power of the Elven Navy waned, how the Core Powers came into being and how their rivalries developed, and what kind of wars and other incidents have been occupying the minds of spacefarers. All in all, it should be a setting the players can truly [i]immerse[/i] themselves into. And that, IMO, requires more than random tables whether any given world is cube- or torus-shaped. [/QUOTE]

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