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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 4634314" data-attributes="member: 54707">Personally, I think you hit many of them PP. Including this one.Also in my setting we use real world religions. My players like that better because they can either then play their own religion (experimentally or not) or experiment with playing another religion or historical religion. That's a lot better than paying an empty pantheon with deities that have no real relation to either the player or the character and tends to make playing clerics, monks, paladins, and hermits a lot more interesting than is normally the case.We use a real world setting, at least for the humans, so it's also easy to interject personally interesting and relevant history, politics, culture, an so forth into both the milieu, and the adventures and campaigns. Players know some of the characters, situations, and places they visit from history.I don't usually get to play but when I do I've found that the difference between a really good setting and a mediocre or bad one is whether the setting evokes, for me and the other players, an atmosphere that is personally relevant, and therefore involving.I also like surprises, to encounter the weird, the truly and unusually magical (in fantasy settings), and creatures that are original, and who have very different and far more interesting motives, other than, 'kill this, hoard that." I personally don't care for monsters who are just numbers or magic which is just a technical science, or characters who are just lists of powers. I do like interesting, complicated, morally challenging, and difficult interplays between different political powers, monsters, NPCs, creatures, forces, races, and religions.Well, I gotta go. I'm on assignment today and working off one of my laptops. Man I hate laptops and keyboards too little for my fingers. And I can't use my VR software cause of all the background noise. I'm sure I made a slew of typos. That's life though I reckon.</blockquote>

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