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<blockquote data-quote="nickostopheles" data-source="post: 7492250" data-attributes="member: 6969110"><p><span style="color: #40E0D0"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">I’ve mostly been a player for the past 30 yrs so asI get back into D&D and 5E for the first time I want to run these worlds atsome point. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #40E0D0"></span></p><p><span style="color: #40E0D0"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">I’M ONLY HUMAN… ISH</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #40E0D0"></span></p><p><span style="color: #40E0D0"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">There are only human societies. All demihumans areactually the product of some kind of supernatural interaction whether it ismagical accident/infection, ate some fey food, unusual parentage, etc. They don’thave societies of their own and their kids are as likely to appear ordinaryhuman as their own particular demihuman flavor. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #40E0D0"></span></p><p><span style="color: #40E0D0"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Much of the land is wild and all intelligentsupernatural creatures have weird fairy tale-ish sense of morality/thinking. Think- Dresden Files, fairy tales, Hellboy, Jonathon Strange & Mr. Norrell</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #40E0D0"></span></p><p><span style="color: #40E0D0"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">I’d love to run a D&D version of Hellboy/BPRDin a setting like this. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #40E0D0"></span></p><p><span style="color: #40E0D0"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">LOOSELY BASED ON…</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #40E0D0"></span></p><p><span style="color: #40E0D0"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Something loosely based on </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #40E0D0"></span></p><p><span style="color: #40E0D0"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Max Gladstone’s the Craft Sequence books. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #40E0D0"></span></p><p><span style="color: #40E0D0"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Bas Lag (China Mieville) world vibe. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #40E0D0"></span></p><p><span style="color: #40E0D0"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">ALTERED MAGICS</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #40E0D0"></span></p><p><span style="color: #40E0D0"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">The nature of the magic is more indicated by theattribute you use rather than what you think about the source of your magic. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #40E0D0"></span></p><p><span style="color: #40E0D0"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Wizards – Magic based upon intellect (INT),calculation. Sort of scientific magics. Representing enlightenment values. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #40E0D0"></span></p><p><span style="color: #40E0D0"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Sorcerers/bards/paladins/warlocks – Magic basedupon passion/emotion (CHA). Representing the romantic movement in its values. LordByron and rock and roll. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #40E0D0"></span></p><p><span style="color: #40E0D0"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Clerics/druids/rangers/monk (ki) – Magic basedupon the insight and intuition of the calm and clear mind (WIS). Representing mindfulness,meditation, and mystical values. Buddhist-ish. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #40E0D0"></span></p><p><span style="color: #40E0D0"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">So you can be a holy wizard who focuses on divinearrangements of things. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #40E0D0"></span></p><p><span style="color: #40E0D0"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">You can be an arcane cleric who uses theirintuition and calm self-control to direct the powers of the universe. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #40E0D0"></span></p><p><span style="color: #40E0D0"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">It would take a considerable re-naming/re-thinkingof the classes to make it fit the world. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #40E0D0"></span></p><p><span style="color: #40E0D0"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">But I like the nugget as it can make for someinteresting magic as metaphor for world philosophy dynamics. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #40E0D0"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nickostopheles, post: 7492250, member: 6969110"] [COLOR=#40E0D0][SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS]I’ve mostly been a player for the past 30 yrs so asI get back into D&D and 5E for the first time I want to run these worlds atsome point. [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS]I’M ONLY HUMAN… ISH[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS]There are only human societies. All demihumans areactually the product of some kind of supernatural interaction whether it ismagical accident/infection, ate some fey food, unusual parentage, etc. They don’thave societies of their own and their kids are as likely to appear ordinaryhuman as their own particular demihuman flavor. [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS]Much of the land is wild and all intelligentsupernatural creatures have weird fairy tale-ish sense of morality/thinking. Think- Dresden Files, fairy tales, Hellboy, Jonathon Strange & Mr. Norrell[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS]I’d love to run a D&D version of Hellboy/BPRDin a setting like this. [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS]LOOSELY BASED ON…[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS]Something loosely based on [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS]Max Gladstone’s the Craft Sequence books. [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS]Bas Lag (China Mieville) world vibe. [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS]ALTERED MAGICS[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS]The nature of the magic is more indicated by theattribute you use rather than what you think about the source of your magic. [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS]Wizards – Magic based upon intellect (INT),calculation. Sort of scientific magics. Representing enlightenment values. [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS]Sorcerers/bards/paladins/warlocks – Magic basedupon passion/emotion (CHA). Representing the romantic movement in its values. LordByron and rock and roll. [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS]Clerics/druids/rangers/monk (ki) – Magic basedupon the insight and intuition of the calm and clear mind (WIS). Representing mindfulness,meditation, and mystical values. Buddhist-ish. [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS]So you can be a holy wizard who focuses on divinearrangements of things. [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS]You can be an arcane cleric who uses theirintuition and calm self-control to direct the powers of the universe. [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS]It would take a considerable re-naming/re-thinkingof the classes to make it fit the world. [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS]But I like the nugget as it can make for someinteresting magic as metaphor for world philosophy dynamics. [/FONT][/SIZE] [/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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