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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Teneb" data-source="post: 1875977" data-attributes="member: 3572">Another vote for Oathbound by Bastion Press.  This is a setting ruled over by 7 demigods (more or less) who each rule their own domain.  They pull creatures, buildings, anything they want, into the world to populate it.  The people don't really know why they do this, but theories abound.  Some of these demigods, known as the Feathered Fowl, are more benevolent than others, but each pushes their people to adapt and grow or die.Because of this, those on the Forge (the world of Oathbound) can literally evolve into new creatures with Prestige Races.  You pay an XP cost and gain new forms and abilities.  Its really pretty cool.As far a dark atmosphere, that's certainly possible.  Set your campaign in Eclipse, a place of eternal darkness overrun with vampire lords, liches, other undead, and lycanthropes.  If you like adventure on the high seas there's alway the Northern Ocean with its ceptu (sentient jelly-fish) overlords.  There's Wildwood, a forest of untamed savagery where survival of the fitest is taken to a whole new level, or Arena where huge armies clash in a perpetual battle over the riches buried beneath the sands.Oathbound is a dynamic setting where anything you'd like to add could fit in.  On the other hand, if there are parts of the setting you don't care for, they can be easily removed.  Its very modular that way.  Finally, setting support from the publisher is quite good, and you can expect it to get much much better in the coming year.  See my sig  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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