Titans And The Campaign World

[SHARK]

Greetings!

Titans And The Campaign World

I use some Titans in my campaign, and they rule their own kingdoms. It seems that Titans are hugely powerful, and very skilled, and yet also very intelligent. Titans should be heavily involved in the local area's politics, should they not? What are the potential effects of having Titans heavily involved with the campaign world? How would you think others would react and interrelate to them? It also seems like using such in the campaign is generally ignored. I think Titans have a great potential in the campaign world in general. They are powerful, intelligent, and heroic figures that can add a great sense of drama and ancient heroism to the environment.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

 

[Irda Ranger]

While Titans appear to be human in aspect, they are much closer to Gods in power. They are the Prime Material Plane's Solar.

Similar to how a human empire wouldn't really care much what the King of the Hedgehogs is up to, just so long as he keeps his hedgehog peasants out of the planted fields, I just can't see Titans giving a hoot about "local politics". I mean, they just don't really matter. They also don't really have much to offer.

I imagine they are extremely removed from the day to day of the campaign world. So little can threaten them personally (let alone as a group) that I can't see them being that interested in what the human are doing. Their lifespan is so long that the greatest human empires can rise and fall within a single Titan's lifetime.

There are events that must involve the Titans when "big important stuff" is happening, like rifts in planar realities. This only works for Epic level play though.

If I had to guess, I would say that the Elminster's of the world may be on a first name basis with two or three of the world's Titans, but that for anyone else (even "the High King"), interacting in any way with a Titan is a really big deal.

Irda Ranger

 

[BiggusGeekus@Work]

I dunno.

I'd see them as viewing humans as "invisibles" or "undesireables". People who are treated as dirt, but are not killed outright because there lurks some awareness that this is where all the money is coming from.

Plus, humans make great toenail polishers.

 

[ashockney]

Check out recent issues of The Mighty Thor (from Marvel Comics)...

The bottom line is Thor inherits Asgard from Odin, and decides to move Asgard to Earth to "protect everyone himself."

I would argue, as they are illustrating in the comic, and as is illustrated in many philosophies and religions, that it is better to allow man to control their own destiny. Particularly when you obviously hold significantly more power than man.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Much like the greek myths and the Scarred Lands' world myth, I have used them as the 'before race' those that created much of the world for their pleasure. Those that the gods fought and cast down.