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<blockquote data-quote="Jürgen Hubert" data-source="post: 855881" data-attributes="member: 7177">I'm currently thinking about a new campaign world, tenatively titled &quot;Athanatos&quot;, which I'd loosely describe as &quot;transhumanist fantasy&quot;.Basically, people in this world have a pretty good understanding of souls, and what happens after &quot;death&quot;: Basically, the soul separates from the now disfunctional body, and slowly dissipates into astral space.But in this world, mages have figured out how to attach a free-floating soul to a new body - not just a restored old one. The soul could also inhabit the body of a clone, a unique body with lots of alchemical enhancements, or even that of a golem. And it isn't required that your original body is dead...Indeed, many people who can afford it maintain several bodies: &quot;This one with the equisite facial features is the body I wear when I attend business occasions, this lean and muscular one I use for weekend parties, this arachnoid construction golem is for my day job in the mining industry, and this specially-bred eagle I use for recreational flying when I want to get away from it all...Does that sound interesting?Oh, and <a href="http://juergen.the-huberts.net/dnd/urbis/index.html" target="_blank">Urbis</a> probably qualifies as &quot;non-standard&quot; fantasy as well - even though it's based partially on Europe, it's not based on medieval Europe, but on Europe in the Industrial Age...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jürgen Hubert, post: 855881, member: 7177"] I'm currently thinking about a new campaign world, tenatively titled "Athanatos", which I'd loosely describe as "transhumanist fantasy". Basically, people in this world have a pretty good understanding of souls, and what happens after "death": Basically, the soul separates from the now disfunctional body, and slowly dissipates into astral space. But in this world, mages have figured out how to attach a free-floating soul to a new body - not just a restored old one. The soul could also inhabit the body of a clone, a unique body with lots of alchemical enhancements, or even that of a golem. And it isn't required that your original body is dead... Indeed, many people who can afford it maintain several bodies: "This one with the equisite facial features is the body I wear when I attend business occasions, this lean and muscular one I use for weekend parties, this arachnoid construction golem is for my day job in the mining industry, and this specially-bred eagle I use for recreational flying when I want to get away from it all... Does that sound interesting? Oh, and [URL=http://juergen.the-huberts.net/dnd/urbis/index.html]Urbis[/URL] probably qualifies as "non-standard" fantasy as well - even though it's based partially on Europe, it's not based on [i]medieval[/i] Europe, but on Europe in the Industrial Age... [/QUOTE]

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