The Recycle Bin

Xathan · October 12, 2006, 06:16:08 PM

Heh, I wondered if that might be your intent. I look forward to seeing what you pile together from this. :D

Oh, and although I may use them in the future, I'll still happily offer the Dracemar: http://www.thecbg.org/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?7596 onto the pile. :)

Epic Meepo · October 30, 2006, 05:40:15 PM

At some point in the not-too-distant future, I plan on adding the appropriate OGC notice to the main Cebexia thread, so even parts of the setting I'm building from stuff in the Recycle Bin will soon be in the Recycle Bin.

In the mean time...

Quote from: beejazz (from another thread)Let's get some new shit in the recycling thread.

SilvercatMoonpaw · October 30, 2006, 06:45:46 PM

Quote from: Epic MeepoIn the mean time...
Quote from: beejazz (from another thread)Let's get some new shit in the recycling thread.
The way I come up with settings they might as well go in here right away. I may just do that.

Epic Meepo · November 09, 2006, 07:49:44 PM

Most of the content of the main Cebexia thread is now labelled as Open Game Content, and I am officially adding it to the Recycle Bin. I just ask that you not use the name of the world or the related introductory material from the first post of the main Cebexia thread.

EDIT: Edited for grammar.

Xathan · November 09, 2006, 08:46:49 PM

Just an FYI, in interets of OGC compliance, I've made the Dracemar reptilian instead of dragonblood, and made their stat block OGC. The flavor text is still in the recycle bin, but I'm not making the flavor OGC. :)

SilvercatMoonpaw · November 10, 2006, 09:14:12 AM

Here's the stuff from my random idea thread in Homebrews:
[spoiler="Hate makes this world go 'round."]
In the old days the giants, the humans, the elves, and the halflings all lived integrated together. It was true that each had a preferred habitat: the giants strolled the open plains, the humans sailed the seas, the elves raced through the forests, and the halflings crawled through the tunnels just under the soil. But there was no isolationism by race; halflings, giants, humans, and elves could live together in the same village. Bloodlines were mingled freely: gaint/human, human/elf, elf/halfling, and and even more trace by combination. The only threats to the peace of this land were the attacks of the dwarves: seafaring from the north, bull-riding from the east. Yet these were only raiders, intersted in loot, not conquest and ideology. Though half-dwarves were sometimes born in the wake of these raids they were accepted as beings of their own by both sides.
This lasted until the dwarven legions of the south invaded. Unlike the north and east, the regions in the south were condusive to large-scale agriculture, affording dwarves a chance to settle down and develop the makings of organized civilization, most importantly disciplined armies and a conquering mindset. They had already tamed the giants, humans, halflings, and elves of their own territories the dwarves set out to aquire the land to their north. Their advance was slow but relentless, as the dwarves took the time to carefully secure their position militarily.
The people of this land were stunned: dwarves were swarming, screaming hordes that were easily repulsed by organized defenses. It was unthinkable that the same savages from the north and east could defeat them. Refugees from the south told tales of the great feats of egineering the dwarves created to sustain their war machine: roads, bridges, aqueducts, sewers. Rumors and tales began to circulate that the dwarves must have the help of the gods, and that the peope of the mid land were being punished for some immoraltiy. But what?
The answer came from those of mixed-blood fleeing the dwarves in the south: wherever the legions went, the dwarves systematically slaughtered every individual who showed sign of mixed race. The dwarves preached a doctirne of racial purity and fixed identity, holding their justification under the commandment from the gods "Each one must remain true." That phrase also existed in the religions of the mid landers, though they had interpreted it differently. Now fervent religious individuals preached that to beat back the "new horde" they must first win back the favor of th gods by returning the races to their "traditional identities" and cleansing the land of the "tainted blood". The panicking citizens of the various mid land countries swiftly took up the cause, and the genocide began.
Whether this was simply coincidental or an actual turning of the god's blessing, the southern dwarves began to squabble over politics, and while their attention was turned and their vigilance was faltering the "newly cleansed" armies of the mid lands retook most of their old territory. The southern dwarves were able to marshal themselves to hold on to their old lands, but the damge to the freedom of the mid lands was done: the purists were proven right, and even some of the most stubborn holdouts capitualted before the "evidence". Half-breeds that were not slaughtered could attempt to escape east (the south was just as certain a death as the mid lands) into the steppes of the bull-riding dwarves or the maze-like forests of towering conifers. In a few coastal human nations, however, this purge was slower, and clever hybrid inidividuals along with their sympathetic human allies decided to take their chances with the sea. Hearing about the discovery of an uninhabited land across the western sea, they set out in great ships, hoping to settle in this "land of freedom".

Point of this idea: I wanted a setting where there was a big tension about mixed race and what being a "true member" of a race means. While standard D&D mentions these ideas, I had an old region from another world lying around my mental junkpile where the PHB stereotypes were enforced for the reasons of an overarching religion, one that specifically called for the death of all half-elves. This setting tries to take that idea and make it seem reasonable, adapting the real history of the Byzantine Empire facing attacks from the Muslims and how the empiror decided that the Muslims were winning because God favored their stance on no images.
The land in the west is sort of an idea of establishing an "America" where people can be free. It's basically an add-on when I was going to do this setting in two parts: medievil and Victorian style-periods. However I still like it, as it creates a place where the population is almost entirely mixed races (though there are supposed to be some native inhabitants).[/spoiler]

[spoiler=Spiritual-Primal Cosmology]The universe is divided between two forces: that of the perfect, unchanging spirit realm (think of Plato's idea that there is a place where perfect copies exist of everything that can be found on Earth), and the variated, constantly changing primal realm (primal is used here to mean matter as well as "lower thought"). In this specific cosmology their are only five plains: the Spirit Realm, the Primal Realm, the Beast Realm, the Demon Realm, and the Mortal Realm. They are arranged in a cosmic pattern known as the pentogram, and each realm only connects to two others: Mortal to Beast to Primal to Spirit to Demon to Mortal (think about that method of drawing a pentagram where you draw the lines without lifting the pen). Upon death a soul moves toward either the Primal Realm or the Spirit Realm depending upon it's inclination to the core being of one or the other. Souls that value consistancy, abstract thought, mind-over-matter, etc., move on to the Spirit Realm to join with its perfection. Souls that value spontineity, insinct, feelings, etc., move on to the Primal Realm to be changed and flung anew into the Mortal Realm.
However each soul must journey to their respective realm. Primal souls pass through the Beast Realm, Spirit souls through the Demon Realm. Sometimes a soul is not ready to face it's core force, and lingers in its realm, becoming either a Beast (which here can mean animal, magical beast, fey, elemental, etc.) or Demon (which here includes fiends and celestials both), respectively.
There is a great conflict in the universe between the forces of Spirit and Primal. The Beasts and the Demons often emerge into the Mortal Realm to engage in conflict for their respective realms. Demons try to impose the will of the Spirit Realm on the Mortal Realm, but the Beasts have no such compulsion.[/spoiler]

Seraph · November 19, 2006, 06:50:24 PM

Epic Meepo:
I really like the bulk of your Astrological Alignments system. With a few slight changes I might adopt it to Avayevnon, which already uses Astrology. I'd have to work on the mechanics a bit, but I think the idea fits very nicely.

Elven Doritos · November 20, 2006, 12:49:09 PM

I've been contemplating tossing Stars Above in here, being as that I haven't touched it in months (with any real intention). I could always come back to it, but would there even be any interest in SA?

Epic Meepo · November 20, 2006, 02:43:56 PM

@Seraphine: Thanks for the compliment; I'm always glad to see ideas of mine put to good use. I'll have to check out Avayenvnon when I get a chance to see how you're adapting the astrological alignment system.

@ElDo: As Seraphine's comment demonstrates, letting other people recycle your stuff can generate interest in something that people haven't looked at in a long time (in this particular case, my months-old astrological alignment system). If people have permission to borrow pieces from Stars Above, they might end up looking at it closer and finding something in it that catches their attention.

SilvercatMoonpaw · November 20, 2006, 04:10:00 PM

My second Ah'rem try has fizzled. Some of the stuff's new, so it might be worth a look:
Ah'rem, try #2

SDragon · November 21, 2006, 03:38:30 PM

Quote from: Epic Meepo
Quote from: beejazz...we could even make a "dustbin phantom" setting with as many unused ideas as possible...
surely[/i] not his secret motivation for starting this thread. ;)

And on an entirely unrelated note, a new thread I'm working at this very moment should be ready for posting in the near future...

if you need a map, just let me know, and we can work something out!

SilvercatMoonpaw · November 21, 2006, 08:29:18 PM

The ideas here are designed to be plundered, because I can't seem to do anything with them:
Mooncat's Random Setting Ideas.

Wensleydale · December 01, 2006, 03:14:35 PM

Okay, I give in.

I now place any and all of my creations, excluding Kahtar, which have not been posted upon for a duration of one week, to be open for the taking, excluding those which I indicate to the contrary. Kahtar may be plundered for ideas but not actually edited as a setting.

Seraph · December 04, 2006, 08:49:25 PM

Epic Meepo: I've posted my version of your astrological alignment in Avayevnon, in case you want to check it out.

Numinous · January 05, 2007, 03:57:11 PM

*cough* What? There was nothing here... I have no idea what you're talking about.

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