The Campaign Builder's Guild

I think I like the Defense roll. It gives an interesting feel to things, and I think it fixes your AC problem.

Not trying to shamelessly bump my own thread, but I have just completed preliminary work on a new plane, complete with some mechanics and planar geography.  I'm posting the regions here, and in the main article mechanics can be found. What do you guys think?  Too vague?  Does this initial write-up conjure any images up? I need some fresh perspective.  The info is in post #6, or here on the wiki.

My that is a nice map.  I must say that those are some great city names, although after a second or two of serious thought, the city of Alecaster degenerated into a rum-summoning wizard class.

Well, I just got done with a continent from my setting, so here it is in all of its unlabeled glory:
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I'll be back at some point with a better, more detailed map.

I love the section on crossbows.  Really adds detail and history to an otherwise mundane bit of equipment.

So will private eyes be more rogueish or more...gunslingerish?  How advanced are the guns? Automatics? If I were doing dieselpunk, I'd go crazy (in a good way) with the different weapons, ammunition, and weapon mods.

Yes. Definitely.  I would see the gods as just beings of great power, but that's all that's special about them.  Mortals, through the right means, could absolutely gain enough power to become a demi-god or outright god.

Oh my yes. I must fix that about the god of the orcs. Hm. I shall have to revise that.

DL, Jaerc, thanks for the 'banner love.'  As soon as I decided to make it, I knew exactly what it had to be, regardless of the name.

DL, regarding the undead plagues, yes and no.  I would see zombie uprisings as being 40% of the undead problems, but I am in the possession of the 4e sourcebook Open Grave.  It has a ton of undead creatures and undead flavorings, and it's probably my absolute favorite of anything 4e yet.  It features a wide array of undead, and I will probably feature variants in differing plagues.  (And on another note, Vyrsovia the state is going to heavily feature vampires and undead, and Stahlstamm will certainly have Grimm's Fairy Tales-esque quests and settings.)
As for the Dark Alchemists, yes, the faction itself is more a catch-all term for unrelated but similar minded mad scientists.  The town of Oldcastle is meant to feature them.
I happened to dream up the Gentlemen of the Raven  after puzzling through how the Raven Queen would interact with the Ankytheran world. I am rather proud of the idea and might even make a class for them.  And it just kind of makes sense, since a fantasy world with zombies wouldn't just have ordinary morticians, now, would it?

Jaerc, about the Iounic Encyclopedia: since I have a Printer's Guild, and a vast world with goodly tech level, it makes sense some follower of the goddess of knowledge would want to spread it to their fellow man.  The core idea of it came from a post in the RPGnet forums, from poster WieldsRulebookHeavily.  In a series of posts, WRH came up with differing ideologies for the churches of the different gods.  In the post on Ioun, WRH had the idea that Ioun's followers would be all about knowledge for good, whereas Vecna is knowledge for evil.  I believe this is nuanced in the notion that paladins of Ioun seek knowledge to help their fellow man, while followers of Vecna seek knowledge for themself.  Given this (admittedly verbose) concept, it made sense that given the ability to widely disseminate information, Iounites would jump at the chance.  It would also give my PCs a good long spate of adventures, gathering information for the printers.  In the game world, I would see the Iounic Encyclopedia being developed in Northrow or perhaps Quencham, by a dual group of archivists of Ioun and Printer's Guildsmen.  

Lindsay Lohan

Very nice stuff! I especially like the communication method, with the bandwidth issues and whatnot.

Luminous Crayon, yes I have been adding pages in the wiki. 24 pages in 24 hours! Not bad for never having touched the wiki markup language.

Magnus Pym, I do hope to have more intriguing things in time.  As I move farther away from the standards, I should have more fitting details.

And you actually traced my line of thought back, as that thought came from that same Greek idea of molded then imbued with life.  

Right, so Springtheory is on the wiki here: http://www.thecbg.org/wiki/index.php/Springtheory

Drama Llama, thanks for the review.

As for the races, I didn't really have any off-the-wall race that HAD to be represented.  For the most part, adapting existing ones worked out fine.  I have not finished every single race and state, but I have preliminary ideas.  For example, I know I want gnomes to be the bankers and jewelers of the world, and have usually surly (and sometimes bi-polar) personalities.  Their exact capabilities and preferences are still up in the air. Gold excites them, but it doesn't really tell me what classes they favor.  Illusion magic will still probably be one of their stand-bys, and there have to be some gnomes who swing the other way personality-wise and are comics and try to cheer their friends up. Trickery isn't dead with the gnomes, just suppressed.

Due to a bit of bad writing, I implied the dwarves were made of stone. They are not. They are still flesh and blood.

Kingdoms and places are coming along. Expect some wiki work on that. I'm not sure I'm going to post every city and town in this thread.

Amethystia basically came about after ten minutes of thinking of a name.  It was also during the very preliminary stages of note taking.  I'm not happy with it, but in the real sessions, the name of the continent never came up, as it shouldn't.  I switched to a different continent when the summer was over, and haven't developed much in that side of the world in a while.  Expect changes.

Thanks for the comments and encouragement.

Conundrum Crow, Ghostman, thanks for the interest!  I would have more on tech, as well as more specifics, if I didn't need sleep.  More will follow today.  Now, for some replies...

Conundrum Crow:
I do seem to have no explanation of the comments I would like to see. I will update the OP right now.

Yes, I can see your point about the gears/machine presentation.  One of the main reasons I joined here was because a) my notes are far to fragmented for easy reference, b) I've exhausted my friend's patience talking about it (or they have their own world they are working on), and c) I have no good idea of the world as a whole.  I've had PCs in the world for a good year now, but each party was on opposite ends of the globe, and time constraints required more content than musings. Hopefully, I will develop, and learn to articulate, the kind of overview I currently lack.

About the standard D&D gods: I personally don't mind using most of them, mainly because I like the way I have fit them in.  I completely agree that religion is very important, and you should see a lot more on it soon, but I worked the standard gods in and Imodify them when I see it fit.  I will post what I have on religion, cosmology, and the gods soon.

Tegeria has the least work on it, and I'd love some input as for novel Dragon ideas.  I have only skimmed Eberron's world, and am unfamiliar with Argonessen.

Ghostman:
Dragons and dragonborn do not use scientific tech, and use their own magic and magic talents.  I have sketched out fairly little on dragonborn society, and would love any ideas.  Dragons and dragonborn have this patron/legion arraignment that should make for some interesting stuff.

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