D&D General worldbuilding around expedition to the barrier peaks

[Shades of Eternity]

I was listening to Greyhawk Grognard and he was grumbling how he thought it tainted the barrier peaks and made them assume it was just a place of tech.

so want to invert it.

lets build a fantasy world where the focal point is a space ship crashing on the planet

what was it like before?

What was it like afterwards.

 

[Zeromaru X]

Interested in this topic.

 

[Shades of Eternity]

To make it easy, this is the map before the space ship struck the planet.

 

[QuentinGeorge]

I was listening to Greyhawk Grognard and he was grumbling how he thought it tainted the barrier peaks and made them assume it was just a place of tech.

so want to invert it.

lets build a fantasy world where the focal point is a space ship crashing on the planet

what was it like before?

What was it like afterwards.

So basically like Numeria on Golarion?

 

[Zardnaar]

To make it easy, this is the map before the space ship struck the planet.
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It is known

 

[Tonguez]

So basically like Numeria on Golarion?

considering the Golarion is a Greyhawk pastiche- yes?

but its Vegypygmies for the win!

 

[Yaarel]

I was listening to Greyhawk Grognard and he was grumbling how he thought it tainted the barrier peaks and made them assume it was just a place of tech.

so want to invert it.

lets build a fantasy world where the focal point is a space ship crashing on the planet

what was it like before?

What was it like afterwards.

Consider Ket and Valley of the Mage are nearby.

Ket is a station in an Oerik supercontinent traderoute. Many merchants are there and traveling thru there. It blends the Human cultures and has the only sizeable population of Dragonborn in the Flanaess subcontinent.

Valley of the Mage is an advanced magitech civilization whose culture was founded by Elf, Gnome, and Human. Consider Ket Dragonborn plus Goliath from the surrounding mountains to also be citizens of Valley culture.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

To make it easy, this is the map before the space ship struck the planet.
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This is very Golarion.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Personally, I don’t think having a crashed spaceship would be very different from most D&D settings. I would go full Metamorphosis Alpha, and make the spaceship the setting. But not let the players know until they find a mysterious hatch.

“The world is hollow and I have touched the sky.”

 

[Shades of Eternity]

Personally, I don’t think having a crashed spaceship would be very different from most D&D settings. I would go full Metamorphosis Alpha, and make the spaceship the setting. But not let the players know until they find a mysterious hatch.

“The world is hollow and I have touched the sky.”

Gives it a real Might and Magic Feel

Either that or starlost.

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but yeah,

blackmoor technically did this idea first and involved froggies.

I guess it is determined by the alien ship and how it crashed.

Is it a spelljammer, the beagle, the barrier peaks ship or something different?

does it have an ai and act as a monster maker?

does it act as an invasive species and/or hybridize with the native population to make something new?