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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Doc_Klueless" data-source="post: 1923010" data-attributes="member: 261">My current homebrew is a world made up of 90% water. The dry lands are archipeligos recently (in geologic terms) thrust up before the sun.Lizardmen, Kua Koa, Sahuagin, Kobolds, etc are the descendents to Empires gone to seed. They are the original indiginous occupants of the world. All others are simply lost colonists, exiles or refugees from other worlds now destroyed or inaccessable. This allows me to make sense of several things, most notably: <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> How did so many sentient creatures evolve on one world? They didn't. The New World is at a crossroads of multi-planar activity. It's easier there than other places to crossover. This allows me to introduce any monster or race that I feel like and still have it make some kind of sense. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Where did all the ruins and dungeons come from? They are underwater cities/lairs/homes exposed to the air. I figured a great defense from forces that can come at you from every direction would be to build your homes in tunnels. That way you can channel the enemy. Also means that many rooms/hallways/entrances can't be accessed unless you can fly OR the races that now inhabit it have put in stairs. PCs are always missing some of the choice stuff since, like most ground pounders, they tend to think to look in two dimensions, so to speak. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> How can cultures with thousands of years of evolution behind it not evolve past the Medieval? They had to leave behind much of their learning, books, tools, etc., when they came to the New World . This set them back, but they are making headway in that direction again (Airships, crude cannon/firearms, etc. Heck, there is even rumors of a strange, mystical device known as a Steam engine.)</li> </ul></blockquote>

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