D&D General what environments feel lacking in nice people?

[GuardianLurker]

Some of them. In others, everyone is like the Addams Family and the Munsters. In others, everyone's an intelligent bear or pony. Oh - and Dinosaur World. Can't forget that one.

(Sigh. When did D&D lose the concept of Alternate Primes?)

 

[Mistwell]

not american thus I have no idea what you mean?

Ah your profile did not specify. If you're from the UK, they're sort of like Man U fans. If not, well, they're rude and obnoxious and entitled fans, as a broad perhaps flawed generalization. But really it's just a joke, and a particularly bad one if it needs explaining. Which apparently it does.

 

[Mind of tempest]

Some of them. In others, everyone is like the Addams Family and the Munsters. In others, everyone's an intelligent bear or pony. Oh - and Dinosaur World. Can't forget that one.

(Sigh. When did D&D lose the concept of Alternate Primes?)

clearly some time ago

 

[Tonguez]

Do all of the alternate PCs have goatees?
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Goatees are evil so obviously

Some of them. In others, everyone is like the Addams Family and the Munsters. In others, everyone's an intelligent bear or pony. Oh - and Dinosaur World. Can't forget that one.

(Sigh. When did D&D lose the concept of Alternate Primes?)

Pretty much it died with TSR but I do remember when the DMG stated that The Prime Material Plane contained the universe and all of its parallels including Earth, and your campaign...
Iirc Boot Hill and Gamma World were alternate primes , alongside Greyhawk, Mystara etc.
The Ethereal Plane touched all the parallel worlds

 

[Oofta]

Some of them. In others, everyone is like the Addams Family and the Munsters. In others, everyone's an intelligent bear or pony. Oh - and Dinosaur World. Can't forget that one.

(Sigh. When did D&D lose the concept of Alternate Primes?)

The multiverse doesn't apply? It's not explicitly alternate primes, but that's a pretty common use for it.

 

[Oofta]

On topic, you can make almost any scenario lacking nice people. Imagine an idyllic setting with happy peasants and birds singing...and then they start talking about how it's almost festival time. Most people are oddly happy and non-specific when you hear someone seeing at people to wake up only to be dragged away. The town has a deep dark secret ritual tie to a dark power.

So it's not anything specific as far as location or group, it's what fits the story.

 

[Tonguez]

Might be an idea to start with standard habitat associations for humanoids then invert, so

Mountains - Dwarf, Giant, Aakrocka,
Hills - Gnomes
Forest - Elf
Valleys/Plains (Meadow) - Humans (agrarian), Half-elf
Urban - Humans (Urban), Tieflings
Desert - Human (nomad)
Swamp/Sewer - Goblin, Human
Coast - Human (Maritime), Sea Elf, Sahuagin
Badlands/Savannah - Gnoll, Orcs
Underdark -
Jungle -

Now modify as you wish

 

[GuardianLurker]

The multiverse doesn't apply? It's not explicitly alternate primes, but that's a pretty common use for it.

The multiverse is alternate primes. I could have sworn 3.x still had them. Cubic Gates usually/often had one as one of the 6. And I'm pretty sure Manual of the Planes mentions them when it's talking about color pools.

I guess that'd be 4e. Which makes sense since that's when they threw out the Great Wheel Cosmology.

 

[aco175]

I kind of long for the 1e days when towns were safe/good, woods and roads were neutral, and dungeons were bad/evil.

 

[Mind of tempest]

I kind of long for the 1e days when towns were safe/good, woods and roads were neutral, and dungeons were bad/evil.

you can do that when ever you want?
or is it a setting design thing?