TBH I prefer Root, which is a totally ruthless area control game hidden behind an adorable woodland critter theme, to Scythe, which is just another Euro-engine builder (albeit a good one) hidden behind what appears to be a steampunk war game with battle mechs
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Carric Aquissar, elven wannabe artist in his deconstructionist period (Archfey warlock) Lan Kidogo, mapach archaeologist and treasure hunter (Knowledge cleric) Mardan Ferres, elven private investigator obsessed with that one unsolved murder (Assassin rogue) Xhekhetiel, halfling survivor of a Betrayer Gods cult (Runechild sorcerer/fighter)
Question: How are gods created in your world and what happens when they die?
My gods are physical manifestations of all creatures psyche. The world was first, then creatures, who brought imagination to the realm and created their gods through new ideas. Does that make sense?
Hi,
yes, I am slow, lol. Been very busy with new job(s) and apparently being faculty has made my life more difficult than I expected.
There are two distinct sets of Powers in my world.
The first is literally that ancient proto-indo-european (PIE) god set. They are vestiges, their actual names long forgotten, their underlying basis being that they are the personifications of things as we made them, and they are now empowered by the changes wrought n the past that severed wyrlde form the mainline universe.
Technically, Wyrlde takes place in the far future. A series of colony ships traveling in a convoy from Earth under a charter arrived at the planet about five hundred years after it was terraformed and seeded.
The leaders of the expedition were elected, and among them was one Major William Lyle.
A strange girl whose history is really complicated and her young friends from the colony discovered a tear in the surface and a strange sparkling ribbon of rainbow hued particles flowing like a river within it, and followed it, enduring some strange experiences as they did, and finally came to a dark place where there was a well. They were thirsty, so they drank from the well.
They became the Powers of the World.
Their discovery of the new things they are was noticed, and they were made by the adults to take the leaders to the same crevasse. Which they did. The leadership went through much the same thing, but many of them died in the process. The leadership came across a strange fire that seemed to beckon them, and each of them that survived to that point entered the fire itself.
They became the Powers That Be.
The Well of Souls and the Eternal Flame, respectively, reached by following the Voes and passing through the Veils, is technically also open to all the people -- but the Voes is rarely in the same spot for long, and even rarely and more difficult to find.
Bill Lyle sorta let it all go to his head, and decided since he had the powers of a God, he should be seen as one. But it was the prettiest girl, the most kind woman among the leaders, who accidentally discovered that Worship makes you more powerful, and since Bill Lyle had been elected President no one really did much even as he descended into autocracy, until he harmed the one he had coveted.
Her husband was rather put out by this, especially since he had been sent away to handle some issues in a far flung outpost while this happened, and he came back and punched the heck out of Bill Lyle. That started a War of the Gods, and that meant that several of the Powers did die. Two from each of the three groups.
Except the reality is that the Gods cannot die. Only one has returned from where ever they went so far, but they are not quite "right".
Bill Lyle used the combined powers to separate the Wyrlde's solar system from the universe -- and in the process created the seven Planes and all the rest of it.
Time and language shifts that were forced initially and then happened organically created a change to the names of many of the Powers, but of them, Belial is the "great evil" and has remained, and Chicory is still very much the same lass who discovered the original crevasse. She is also the Anima Mundi, and what Belial did without realizing it was essentially give her the power to stop him.
and all the other Powers. Except 3. Whom she is on very good terms with - the Fates. Who gained the power to trim the threads of the Veils and the lives of all those within the new reality created, save for Chicory herself -- for her thread is the same as the thread of the world itself, and only its total destruction can end her -- and would end all the others.
The "dead gods" are all actually upon the Cycle of Life, incarnating in new forms in each of the seven planes, always aware of who and what they are, and why they are there, and they have chosen not to return, even though they can pass through any plane or dimension.
If you can't quite tell, it is an entire and whole cosmology set up -- 99% of which will never tough the game, lol.
But the high points in answer to the question are: 1 - They were either already gods or they bacem gods by exposure to the origin forces of all things; 2 - Gods cannot die. But they don't have to keep being gods, either.
Belial, Pallor, and TImur are the three of the bad guys who survived. All are disassembled -- their constituent parts scattered throughout the planes, and bound or chained. Physical, Spiritual, mental, etc. They cannot act directly, but can empower ikons and can speak and all the little stuff, with a goal of bringing Belial back together.
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Question: How are gods created in your world and what happens when they die?
My gods are physical manifestations of all creatures psyche. The world was first, then creatures, who brought imagination to the realm and created their gods through new ideas. Does that make sense?
Hi,
yes, I am slow, lol. Been very busy with new job(s) and apparently being faculty has made my life more difficult than I expected.
There are two distinct sets of Powers in my world.
The first is literally that ancient proto-indo-european (PIE) god set. They are vestiges, their actual names long forgotten, their underlying basis being that they are the personifications of things as we made them, and they are now empowered by the changes wrought n the past that severed wyrlde form the mainline universe.
Technically, Wyrlde takes place in the far future. A series of colony ships traveling in a convoy from Earth under a charter arrived at the planet about five hundred years after it was terraformed and seeded.
The leaders of the expedition were elected, and among them was one Major William Lyle.
A strange girl whose history is really complicated and her young friends from the colony discovered a tear in the surface and a strange sparkling ribbon of rainbow hued particles flowing like a river within it, and followed it, enduring some strange experiences as they did, and finally came to a dark place where there was a well. They were thirsty, so they drank from the well.
They became the Powers of the World.
Their discovery of the new things they are was noticed, and they were made by the adults to take the leaders to the same crevasse. Which they did. The leadership went through much the same thing, but many of them died in the process. The leadership came across a strange fire that seemed to beckon them, and each of them that survived to that point entered the fire itself.
They became the Powers That Be.
The Well of Souls and the Eternal Flame, respectively, reached by following the Voes and passing through the Veils, is technically also open to all the people -- but the Voes is rarely in the same spot for long, and even rarely and more difficult to find.
Bill Lyle sorta let it all go to his head, and decided since he had the powers of a God, he should be seen as one. But it was the prettiest girl, the most kind woman among the leaders, who accidentally discovered that Worship makes you more powerful, and since Bill Lyle had been elected President no one really did much even as he descended into autocracy, until he harmed the one he had coveted.
Her husband was rather put out by this, especially since he had been sent away to handle some issues in a far flung outpost while this happened, and he came back and punched the heck out of Bill Lyle. That started a War of the Gods, and that meant that several of the Powers did die. Two from each of the three groups.
Except the reality is that the Gods cannot die. Only one has returned from where ever they went so far, but they are not quite "right".
Bill Lyle used the combined powers to separate the Wyrlde's solar system from the universe -- and in the process created the seven Planes and all the rest of it.
Time and language shifts that were forced initially and then happened organically created a change to the names of many of the Powers, but of them, Belial is the "great evil" and has remained, and Chicory is still very much the same lass who discovered the original crevasse. She is also the Anima Mundi, and what Belial did without realizing it was essentially give her the power to stop him.
and all the other Powers. Except 3. Whom she is on very good terms with - the Fates. Who gained the power to trim the threads of the Veils and the lives of all those within the new reality created, save for Chicory herself -- for her thread is the same as the thread of the world itself, and only its total destruction can end her -- and would end all the others.
The "dead gods" are all actually upon the Cycle of Life, incarnating in new forms in each of the seven planes, always aware of who and what they are, and why they are there, and they have chosen not to return, even though they can pass through any plane or dimension.
If you can't quite tell, it is an entire and whole cosmology set up -- 99% of which will never tough the game, lol.
But the high points in answer to the question are: 1 - They were either already gods or they bacem gods by exposure to the origin forces of all things; 2 - Gods cannot die. But they don't have to keep being gods, either.
Belial, Pallor, and TImur are the three of the bad guys who survived. All are disassembled -- their constituent parts scattered throughout the planes, and bound or chained. Physical, Spiritual, mental, etc. They cannot act directly, but can empower ikons and can speak and all the little stuff, with a goal of bringing Belial back together.
Only a DM since 1980 (3000+ Sessions) / PhD, MS, MA / Mixed, Bi, Trans, Woman / No longer welcome in the US, apparently
Wyrlde: Adventures in the Seven Cities .-=] Lore Book | Patreon | Wyrlde YT [=-. An original Setting for 5e, a whole solar system of adventure. Ongoing updates, exclusies, more. Not Talking About It / Dubbed The Oracle in the Cult of Mythology Nerds
I’m used to it by now. I’m just busy. I check in for a quick 1 minute read sometimes, but that looked like it required brainpower, which I don’t always have these days.
Question of the day: Got any plans for the weekend?
I've got a fern that's dying and a tiny little apple tree out back. I supposedly have a garden, but it's been effectively ignored. The grass usually works itself out.
Edit: I realize now that you said plans. Not plants. Whoops. In that case, no.
Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
Don't be mean. Rudeness is a vicious cycle, and it has to stop somewhere. Exceptions for things that are funny. Go to the current Competition of the Finest 'Brews! It's a cool place where cool people make cool things.
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Question of the day: Got any plans for the weekend?
Been on vacation all week catching up on my D&D notes for the sessions (I do audio recordings of the sessions and then use that for the notes for the game's website, but I have been pretty lax about doing the notes, because we play with such regularity... but the notes also help me remember subplots and NPC names I've planted throughout the sessions so it's always good...) But other than continuing to try and catch up on that, the D&D Movie is available to rent on Amazon, so my wife and I are going to do that at some point this weekend.
I’m heading down for the last qualifiers before fencing nationals in Arizona this summer. I’ve got one event Saturday and one Sunday. Nothing else. I’m just going to enjoy Utah and try to fence well.
Question: What are some name suggestions you would give for a high fantasy Isekai themed ttrpg?
It heavily depends on what themes you're thinking of. I can think of a bunch, but I need some more information to help.
If you mean themes for a campaign using this system, they would be Good Vs Evil (for combat centered ones) or New World New Life (for roleplay centered ones). If that’s not what you’re asking, I don’t understand.
Question: What are some name suggestions you would give for a high fantasy Isekai themed ttrpg?
I didn't even know what Isekai was - had to google it.
So anime with fantasy and sci fi themes?
Do you already have a basis for the world/setting? Name for the world? What's the world like? What are some of the iconic areas?
First off, the quick description I’m guessing you saw forgot to include the part where the main character is transported from one world to another in Isekai.
The setting is high fantasy (like magic is everywhere) with many, many different species and kingdoms. These kingdoms have a very thin peace that can be broken instantly. There are also excavation sites containing ancient remnants of a sci-fi level advanced civilization. Does this help?
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Question: What are some name suggestions you would give for a high fantasy Isekai themed ttrpg?
I didn't even know what Isekai was - had to google it.
So anime with fantasy and sci fi themes?
Do you already have a basis for the world/setting? Name for the world? What's the world like? What are some of the iconic areas?
First off, the quick description I’m guessing you saw forgot to include the part where the main character is transported from one world to another in Isekai.
The setting is high fantasy (like magic is everywhere) with many, many different species and kingdoms. These kingdoms have a very thin peace that can be broken instantly. There are also excavation sites containing ancient remnants of a sci-fi level advanced civilization. Does this help?
I just found some old notes for a campaign idea i had, and I think I can transition them into some of these kingdoms. One of the kingdoms is a relatively small city-state between two rival superpowers of the time, one filled with demon-spawn and the other run by paranoid gods. Thought you might want to know this or something.
I highly recommend taking a look at the book Arcana of the Ancients, made by Monte Cook. This book is absolutely on of the most useful books I’ve ever seen for running sci-fantasy. Here is a link to view it online: https://anyflip.com/xnqnc/jndh/basic
I’ve run science fantasy before, and this book was my guide. I do have more advice, but honestly, most of it is probably within this book. I especially recommend reading the GM Advice and the adventures it provides.
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Scythe is cool! I would play it again but my friends seem to have decided it's unbalanced or something.
TBH I prefer Root, which is a totally ruthless area control game hidden behind an adorable woodland critter theme, to Scythe, which is just another Euro-engine builder (albeit a good one) hidden behind what appears to be a steampunk war game with battle mechs
Active characters:
Carric Aquissar, elven wannabe artist in his deconstructionist period (Archfey warlock)
Lan Kidogo, mapach archaeologist and treasure hunter (Knowledge cleric)
Mardan Ferres, elven private investigator obsessed with that one unsolved murder (Assassin rogue)
Xhekhetiel, halfling survivor of a Betrayer Gods cult (Runechild sorcerer/fighter)
Hi,
yes, I am slow, lol. Been very busy with new job(s) and apparently being faculty has made my life more difficult than I expected.
There are two distinct sets of Powers in my world.
The first is literally that ancient proto-indo-european (PIE) god set. They are vestiges, their actual names long forgotten, their underlying basis being that they are the personifications of things as we made them, and they are now empowered by the changes wrought n the past that severed wyrlde form the mainline universe.
Technically, Wyrlde takes place in the far future. A series of colony ships traveling in a convoy from Earth under a charter arrived at the planet about five hundred years after it was terraformed and seeded.
The leaders of the expedition were elected, and among them was one Major William Lyle.
A strange girl whose history is really complicated and her young friends from the colony discovered a tear in the surface and a strange sparkling ribbon of rainbow hued particles flowing like a river within it, and followed it, enduring some strange experiences as they did, and finally came to a dark place where there was a well. They were thirsty, so they drank from the well.
They became the Powers of the World.
Their discovery of the new things they are was noticed, and they were made by the adults to take the leaders to the same crevasse. Which they did. The leadership went through much the same thing, but many of them died in the process. The leadership came across a strange fire that seemed to beckon them, and each of them that survived to that point entered the fire itself.
They became the Powers That Be.
The Well of Souls and the Eternal Flame, respectively, reached by following the Voes and passing through the Veils, is technically also open to all the people -- but the Voes is rarely in the same spot for long, and even rarely and more difficult to find.
Bill Lyle sorta let it all go to his head, and decided since he had the powers of a God, he should be seen as one. But it was the prettiest girl, the most kind woman among the leaders, who accidentally discovered that Worship makes you more powerful, and since Bill Lyle had been elected President no one really did much even as he descended into autocracy, until he harmed the one he had coveted.
Her husband was rather put out by this, especially since he had been sent away to handle some issues in a far flung outpost while this happened, and he came back and punched the heck out of Bill Lyle. That started a War of the Gods, and that meant that several of the Powers did die. Two from each of the three groups.
Except the reality is that the Gods cannot die. Only one has returned from where ever they went so far, but they are not quite "right".
Bill Lyle used the combined powers to separate the Wyrlde's solar system from the universe -- and in the process created the seven Planes and all the rest of it.
Time and language shifts that were forced initially and then happened organically created a change to the names of many of the Powers, but of them, Belial is the "great evil" and has remained, and Chicory is still very much the same lass who discovered the original crevasse. She is also the Anima Mundi, and what Belial did without realizing it was essentially give her the power to stop him.
and all the other Powers. Except 3. Whom she is on very good terms with - the Fates. Who gained the power to trim the threads of the Veils and the lives of all those within the new reality created, save for Chicory herself -- for her thread is the same as the thread of the world itself, and only its total destruction can end her -- and would end all the others.
The "dead gods" are all actually upon the Cycle of Life, incarnating in new forms in each of the seven planes, always aware of who and what they are, and why they are there, and they have chosen not to return, even though they can pass through any plane or dimension.
If you can't quite tell, it is an entire and whole cosmology set up -- 99% of which will never tough the game, lol.
But the high points in answer to the question are: 1 - They were either already gods or they bacem gods by exposure to the origin forces of all things; 2 - Gods cannot die. But they don't have to keep being gods, either.
Belial, Pallor, and TImur are the three of the bad guys who survived. All are disassembled -- their constituent parts scattered throughout the planes, and bound or chained. Physical, Spiritual, mental, etc. They cannot act directly, but can empower ikons and can speak and all the little stuff, with a goal of bringing Belial back together.
Only a DM since 1980 (3000+ Sessions) / PhD, MS, MA / Mixed, Bi, Trans, Woman / No longer welcome in the US, apparently
Wyrlde: Adventures in the Seven Cities
.-=] Lore Book | Patreon | Wyrlde YT [=-.
An original Setting for 5e, a whole solar system of adventure. Ongoing updates, exclusies, more.
Not Talking About It / Dubbed The Oracle in the Cult of Mythology Nerds
Will read when I have time…
Well, everyone WAS warned about me, lol
Only a DM since 1980 (3000+ Sessions) / PhD, MS, MA / Mixed, Bi, Trans, Woman / No longer welcome in the US, apparently
Wyrlde: Adventures in the Seven Cities
.-=] Lore Book | Patreon | Wyrlde YT [=-.
An original Setting for 5e, a whole solar system of adventure. Ongoing updates, exclusies, more.
Not Talking About It / Dubbed The Oracle in the Cult of Mythology Nerds
I’m used to it by now. I’m just busy. I check in for a quick 1 minute read sometimes, but that looked like it required brainpower, which I don’t always have these days.
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Question of the day: Got any plans for the weekend?
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
I've got a fern that's dying and a tiny little apple tree out back. I supposedly have a garden, but it's been effectively ignored. The grass usually works itself out.
Edit: I realize now that you said plans. Not plants. Whoops. In that case, no.
Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
Don't be mean. Rudeness is a vicious cycle, and it has to stop somewhere. Exceptions for things that are funny.
Go to the current Competition of the Finest 'Brews! It's a cool place where cool people make cool things.
How I'm posting based on text formatting: Mod Hat Off - Mod Hat Also Off (I'm not a mod)
Been on vacation all week catching up on my D&D notes for the sessions (I do audio recordings of the sessions and then use that for the notes for the game's website, but I have been pretty lax about doing the notes, because we play with such regularity... but the notes also help me remember subplots and NPC names I've planted throughout the sessions so it's always good...) But other than continuing to try and catch up on that, the D&D Movie is available to rent on Amazon, so my wife and I are going to do that at some point this weekend.
Check out my publication on DMs Guild: https://www.dmsguild.com/browse.php?author=Tawmis%20Logue
Check out my comedy web series - Neverending Nights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wr4-u9-zw0&list=PLbRG7dzFI-u3EJd0usasgDrrFO3mZ1lOZ
Need a character story/background written up? I do it for free (but also take donations!) - https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?591882-Need-a-character-background-written-up
Definitely going to disappear between Friday at 8 pm to Sunday at 2 pm.
Hi, I’m DrakenBrine, here’s my Sig and characters
I am The Grand Envisioner!
I’m heading down for the last qualifiers before fencing nationals in Arizona this summer. I’ve got one event Saturday and one Sunday. Nothing else. I’m just going to enjoy Utah and try to fence well.
Chillin at home with my dogs.
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Question: What are some name suggestions you would give for a high fantasy Isekai themed ttrpg?
Hi, I’m DrakenBrine, here’s my Sig and characters
I am The Grand Envisioner!
It heavily depends on what themes you're thinking of. I can think of a bunch, but I need some more information to help.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
May each word that I speak be backed by each of my teeth.
If you mean themes for a campaign using this system, they would be Good Vs Evil (for combat centered ones) or New World New Life (for roleplay centered ones). If that’s not what you’re asking, I don’t understand.
Hi, I’m DrakenBrine, here’s my Sig and characters
I am The Grand Envisioner!
I didn't even know what Isekai was - had to google it.
So anime with fantasy and sci fi themes?
Do you already have a basis for the world/setting? Name for the world? What's the world like? What are some of the iconic areas?
Check out my publication on DMs Guild: https://www.dmsguild.com/browse.php?author=Tawmis%20Logue
Check out my comedy web series - Neverending Nights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wr4-u9-zw0&list=PLbRG7dzFI-u3EJd0usasgDrrFO3mZ1lOZ
Need a character story/background written up? I do it for free (but also take donations!) - https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?591882-Need-a-character-background-written-up
First off, the quick description I’m guessing you saw forgot to include the part where the main character is transported from one world to another in Isekai.
The setting is high fantasy (like magic is everywhere) with many, many different species and kingdoms. These kingdoms have a very thin peace that can be broken instantly. There are also excavation sites containing ancient remnants of a sci-fi level advanced civilization. Does this help?
Hi, I’m DrakenBrine, here’s my Sig and characters
I am The Grand Envisioner!
I just found some old notes for a campaign idea i had, and I think I can transition them into some of these kingdoms. One of the kingdoms is a relatively small city-state between two rival superpowers of the time, one filled with demon-spawn and the other run by paranoid gods. Thought you might want to know this or something.
MY INFO
I highly recommend taking a look at the book Arcana of the Ancients, made by Monte Cook. This book is absolutely on of the most useful books I’ve ever seen for running sci-fantasy. Here is a link to view it online: https://anyflip.com/xnqnc/jndh/basic
I’ve run science fantasy before, and this book was my guide. I do have more advice, but honestly, most of it is probably within this book. I especially recommend reading the GM Advice and the adventures it provides.