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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 4792500" data-attributes="member: 2205">Thanks for the suggestions, guys.  Keep 'em coming!  I'm eating this stuff up.Yeah, about that.  That's actually my favorite part of all this, so there's no way I'm ditching it.God of Undead was perhaps a misnomer, though.  I'm a "small gods" and dark fantasy, LM/GnG kinda guy.  By god of undead, I merely meant some Lovecraftian übermonster that exudes a curse-like aura around itself.  I even had a thought that... remember the first chapter in Elder Evils?  The Undead moon or whatever it was?  I had a thought that under the city was a meteor (I know, kinda Mordheim) that's actually a fragment of that planet.  But my other idea is that it's a trapped and slumbering major mojo demon lord or something.At the end of the day, I'm not sure that it really matters exactly what it is, because I don't intend on having that aspect of the setting change, but I'm curious in batting around some ideas anyway.I don't know.  I started developing "modular campaign setting elements" that I could drop into any homebrew as desired, and this is one of the modules.  I don't have any immediate plans to use it, or how; I just want to develop it as setting material for now.1) Enough vampires to make that problematic.2) A strong, mortal army of Untouched and conscripts.3) Nearly limitless (for all intents and purposes) cannon fodder troops of cheap undead like skeletons, zombies, etc.I'm looking a bit towards the Warhammer Vampire Counts army for inspiration, and thinking; what if instead of just some isolated counts up in their isolated castles, there were an entire nation like this?  Anyway, no other neighboring country has the military might to take on the vampires, and even big guns like the Kurushat Empire (Nazi hobgoblins---if Hobbers are supposed to be well-organized and militaristic, why don't they have powerful, civilized empires in more settings anyway?) would certainly hesitate to take them on in their own territory.  It would be a brutal war of attrition, with your own dead troops rising up against you.  The biggest armies in the entire setting would grind themselves to dust, and even if they won, the victory would be too Pyrrhic to contemplate.Well, it's neither here nor there because I'm just developing a setting independently of mechanics, but probably 3e.  I don't have 4e and nobody in my group is interested in switching over anyway.</blockquote>

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