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Old 07-14-2008, 01:07 AM   #6
manikus
Jack Burton
 

Join Date: July 13, 2001
Location: Stumptown
Age: 53
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Default Re: What Campaign Setting for your Module?

I really like world building. I've been putting a fair bit of effort into a new pantheon and the specialty priests, elite druids and different orders of knights that serve them and why.

The hard part has been redoing the magic. It's a lot of work. I'm trying to simulate elemental magic. I'll have to do this very carefully, not allowing PC magic users is a big step in that direction, with various mages having only the general spells and spells of their element...

I want to make this an AD&D world, so it can be accessible by the various inner and outer planes, because I want to use the Elemental planes in the backstory/history of the world. I've been rationalizing that since the gods control the nature of magic, both clerical magic userish, that I can have whatever spell system that I want, as long as I keep it balanced and roughly at the same power level as the AD&D canon. Perhaps I will write a treatise on the nature of magic in the multi-verse (or at least one of my sages will). Related to this, as an exercise in brainstorming on the world's backstory/history, I tried to imagine the names and/or topics of all the must have books for the sages and intellectuals, allowing that some books have had a limited print run, while others are unique or have only one or two copies of the original.
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