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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Shadow" data-source="post: 8937415" data-attributes="member: 16760">I'd like the moon to be survivable by the characters, so it should have some atmosphere. How could they get there in an appropriately magical way? Not moonstone, but the crystal from the temple! Why is it necessary for the characters to go to the moon? I'm sure the various factions will want to stop them!Let's say the original magical civilization took refuge on the Moon and left the Earth to rot. Why does the party need to confront them? What was the catastrophic event?Hmm. Good stuff, but that last bit doesn't make sense. I don't think the lunar civilization realizes the danger. How does the lunar civilization avoid the magical explosions that devastated the Earth?Oh wow! What if the magical explosions were actually huge meteorites! Maybe the Moon is still struck by them, but the Lunars' shielding technology is such that they don't care any more?What sort of magical residue do the meteorites leave behind? Could that be responsible for the mutations? Yet if the mysterious enemy lobbing the meterorites is defeated, the magical residue might not be available any more. Do you think the Order of the Moon might want to prevent that? Why don't the Lunars exploit the residue?Your first two explanations make no sense at all, as the Lunars are more advanced, plus their shielding of their cities indicate they don't care about environmental damage. I think number 4 is the way to go.Do the Lunars know about the enemy lobbing the meterorites?So what's the deal with the enemy? Where do they live? Why do they send meteorites against anyone using advanced magic? And why haven't they given up after centuries of the Lunars shielding themselves? No, I don't think they're from another plane. I think they're hidden in the asteroid belt. Are they native to the solar system or alien to it?Hot diggity! Now we're getting somewhere! Why do they see magic as a threat? Could it be harming them in some way? But how, at such a distance?I doubt it's anything so grandiose as being guardians of the solar system, but maybe magic is drawing the attention of some extraplanar, or just alien, force.Hmm... Magical Berserkers? In the sense of the Saberhagen stories, of AI ships that wipe out life.So whose side is the Order of the Moon the mostly-unwitting pawn of? The Lunars, the asteroid aliens, or the AI Berserkers? And to the few of them who realize that, what do they want to do about it?Meh. I doubt the Berserkers are friendly enough to make use of anyone. Besides, they aren't here yet.What D&D classes would be inappropriate in this low-magic version of Earth? Which of them might exist among the Lunars? Hm. I think wizards can get by if they have residue at hand. Sorcerers might have a difficult time. Magical bloodlines might be prone to mutation!What about Warlocks?Okay, that didn't make much sense. Unless residue is necessary to make contact with one's patron? Hm. I wonder if clerics should be restricted somehow, they seem to have it too easy.I don't regard clerics as using "magic", so that doesn't work for me. Unless... Maybe residue is necessary to thin the planar boundaries enough to make it possible to contact with outsiders?Why would that be, though? Maybe it's a result of one of the Lunars' failed experiments? So perhaps they overreacted and made the planar boundaries even harder to cross than usual? I bet the gods aren't happy about that!Recall that the residue isn't from the Lunars, though, it's from the meteorites.... Could the asteroid aliens think they're doing us a favor by pounding us with meteorites full of residue? But surely not, they're afraid of the Berserkers.That's what the Berserkers are trying to do! Wipe out the gods by wiping out their worshippers! Or maybe just wipe out gods other than their own.[Like it or hate it, this campaign concept is certainly unique!  I'd play in it.]</blockquote>

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