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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8617141" data-attributes="member: 2209">For my current 5e Iron Gods game I chose my homebrew mashup setting which is a big part <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/24802/Ptolus-Monte-Cooks-City-By-The-Spire-Ptolus-Core?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Ptolus</a> and Golarion.Ptolus has a big theocratic human empire that henotheistically worships an ascended paladin and is dealing with an internal succession civil war. The empire is big and sprawling and decadent with a lot of territory becoming essentially independent city states.I really like the paladin church as a very D&Dized tropy big organization medieval church with a history of inquisitions and lots of saints and a LG base but also divisions and herecies and corruption and such. Lots I can work with there thematically. I have used the saints angle as the church incorporating elements of other pantheons as saints. For example the Holy Lothian church in my world incorporated the Golarion Death Goddess Pharasma as the Angel of Death who joined Lothian. At the same time there can still be D&D pantheons of "Old Gods" of different varieties in different areas as well to use outside of the Lothian church context.Having a big civil war gives a great background for a D&D game. It draws powerful NPCs into that conflict leaving lots of local areas where the immediate party can be the protagonists in dealing with whatever is going on. If most fighters and clerics and such are drawn off to war, when a ghost eruption happens there is only the 70 year old local priest, a couple under aged altar boys, and the party to deal with it effectively. There can be high magic backdrop but no feeling that powerful local authorities will fix things.Doing a big homebrew mashup also means I can jettison elements I do not care for such as the Ptolus closed cosmology and go with my own vague and sprawling cosmology with elements from 3e and 4e and others.I run a lot of modules and that includes a number of Paizo Adventure Paths. I like Paizo's Golarion and a lot of the country themes and developments appeal to me and I find it easy and fun to overlay the Ptolus and other elements over a lot of stuff so there is a lot of Golarion in my game. So when I ran a 5e game of Carrion Crown Golarion's Ustalav was a province of the Ptolus Holy Lothian Empire whose prince was seeking the imperial throne so he had rallied armies and marched off to civil war.I have run a number of games in this homebrew in various D&D editions so it is easy for me to use it as a backdrop for lore. When my current group were deciding on a campaign theme a couple of years ago the Iron Gods adventure path theme appealed to them so I am running that in 5e with the barbaric supertech land of Golarion's Numeria being in the barbarian lands outside of the empire, but I still have had Lothian elements show up. Also based on character concepts and things that have arisen in the game there are World of Darkness <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/112871/Werewolf-The-Apocalypse-20th-Anniversary-Edition?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Werewolf the Apocalypse </a>and <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/131409/Mage-The-Ascension-20th-Anniversary-Edition-Quickstart?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Mage the Ascension</a> aspects that have come in fairly seamlessly as well.</blockquote>

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