Post by meribson on Sept 27, 2017 1:44:41 GMT
When going through my Google Drive folders earlier today, I stumbled across a campaign setting that I started around this time last year. Pathfinder ruleset, 5 playable races (all custom), limited selection of classes from all the pathfinder books, no coinage, no metal, hide armor being the best available, alignment thrown out, etc.
The basic idea behind the setting: This is not a world of knights, wizards, princesses and dragons. This is a world of survival. You are not playing as dwarves, elves, halflings, or gnomes. Not because the story takes place after the end times. But because the classic fantasy races have yet to evolve. Will you play as a shanidar, the muscled cave dwellers that one day will be known as orcs? Or perhaps you'll be ebu gogo, the ancestor of dwarves, gnomes, and halflings. Turkana, the ancestor of humans and elves, might be more your taste. What about the karabo, the last remnants of an earlier, dying breed. No, well perhaps the ukuhleka will peak your interest, want to play the ancestor of the savage gnolls?
As the title says, this setting is about the Dawn of Humanoids.
This basic premise is the reason behind all the strict limits on character creation: most of the core material is inappropriate for the time period. Even the earliest estimates of the first use of metallurgy is still 2-3 million years later. When you're concerned mostly with getting enough food to eat and avoiding predators, good and evil fall to the wayside. This early in the history of the world, the more "advanced" classes simply haven't developed yet.
Thoughts?
The basic idea behind the setting: This is not a world of knights, wizards, princesses and dragons. This is a world of survival. You are not playing as dwarves, elves, halflings, or gnomes. Not because the story takes place after the end times. But because the classic fantasy races have yet to evolve. Will you play as a shanidar, the muscled cave dwellers that one day will be known as orcs? Or perhaps you'll be ebu gogo, the ancestor of dwarves, gnomes, and halflings. Turkana, the ancestor of humans and elves, might be more your taste. What about the karabo, the last remnants of an earlier, dying breed. No, well perhaps the ukuhleka will peak your interest, want to play the ancestor of the savage gnolls?
As the title says, this setting is about the Dawn of Humanoids.
This basic premise is the reason behind all the strict limits on character creation: most of the core material is inappropriate for the time period. Even the earliest estimates of the first use of metallurgy is still 2-3 million years later. When you're concerned mostly with getting enough food to eat and avoiding predators, good and evil fall to the wayside. This early in the history of the world, the more "advanced" classes simply haven't developed yet.
Thoughts?
