The Campaign Builder's Guild

I like the  post-recent-apocalypse concept.  It's a new spin on things.  Many campaign worlds have some sort of cataclysm a hundred or more years in the past (Dragon Lance being the most famous example) but I know of nothing before your work where the cataclysm was a few decades ago.

If the "apocalypse" was a super-storm what are the climatological after-effects?  Are regular storms more common or less common?  More severe or less severe?


I like the Orochians an Reikians, both are funky in a good way.  Did you know there's an Eastern system of healing/ energy work called Reiki?

I just read your stuff about the Academy and the Gift.  I think the people are very progressive, that their answer to the cataclysm is to train wizards rather than kill them ;)

I like your idea of the Gift.  Limits on who can use magic makes it feel a little darker, and magic feel a little rarer and more special.  Good for low magic worlds, too.

I have something similar to your magehound idea (at least it sounds similar, though I'm not realy familiar with it in FR).  One thing I struggle with, though, is the question of where that magic immunity might come from.  It's ironically more of an issue in a low-magic world, where personal will or divine intervention are not really acceptable answers.

I was originally going to have the storm set a hundred years ago, but i could not get the feel and tone of the world right so i decided to have it only a few decades ago, so many of the effects are still going on that affect the land and its people.

The storm is still present but at a relatively small scale it surrounds the place where Lodis performed the ritual, the result of this is it has created a permanently dead land which is avoided by all races.

Normal storms are more or less the same as they were before, to be honest with you i haven't thought about how or if if would effect the normal storms.

Never heard of Reiki before, i just kinda picked a word spelt it backwards the re-arranged the letters and added/removed a few and i managed to come up with the name Reikian.

QuoteI just read your stuff about the Academy and the Gift.  I think the people are very progressive, that their answer to the cataclysm is to train wizards rather than kill them ;)

I like your idea of the Gift.  Limits on who can use magic makes it feel a little darker, and magic feel a little rarer and more special.  Good for low magic worlds, too.
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I have something similar to your magehound idea (at least it sounds similar, though I'm not realy familiar with it in FR).  One thing I struggle with, though, is the question of where that magic immunity might come from.  It's ironically more of an issue in a low-magic world, where personal will or divine intervention are not really acceptable answers.
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Im not sure if it is a published class, but i was reading a FR Trilogy, cant remember the names of the books atm, but the featured the magehounds, the immune to magic is only an idea, ive only got a very general idea about what i want to do with the class.

Update - Added a bit to the Orochi, i hope it fleshes them out a bit more.

Also im interested in a new take on the elves, i dont want to have them how they are presented in the PHB as they are too similar to the Orochi, and i dont particularly want to go down the drow route either, so if anyone has any thoughts or ideas on the matter please share them.

You've got a lot of detail for your races.  I admire that.  I constantly find myself not really knowing what to say about my races for Kishar.

On a side note, I'm not totally certain I find the orochi balanced with PHB races.  Despite the negatively unbalanced ability scores, their big penalty is to CHA, which many fighters won't care about at all.  You effectively tell them they cannot be good sorcs, bards, or paladins, in exchange making them supreme fighters, barbs, rogues, or rangers.  The benefits of multiple limbs, a nasty poison, and +4 dex, not to mention other minor benefits and cultural traits are pretty extreme.

im not trying to make them balanced against the PHB races, im  trying to balance them against each other, originally i was going to have Thri-kreen as a player race, but i quickly scrapped that idea and made the Orochi, which is a slightly toned down version.

Another Update - Added Humans to the Races post, and some information about the Planes.

Ah.  Okay, in that case, it's okay.  But I think they are also not balanced against your humans, unless you plan to give them some major cultural traits.  Once reikians have cultural traits, it looks like they will be balanced against orochi, though.

Quote from: Phoenix KnightAh.  Okay, in that case, it's okay.  But I think they are also not balanced against your humans, unless you plan to give them some major cultural traits.  Once reikians have cultural traits, it looks like they will be balanced against orochi, though.

Yeah i was actually thinking the same thing, i havent got a clue as to what to add to make humans balanced against the orochi, i may end up nerfing the orochi a bit

Update - Added rules for taint, i could use some suggestions for what a fully tainted soul could turn the body into, i dont what them to turn into daemons, and im not that keen on them turning into undead either, maybe something completely ferral.

I'd be inclined to do something like say in "28 Days Later" or better still "The Fog" (the novel) where people may go feral or may go totally passive...it entirely depends on their personality. Perhaps you could have beast natures that reflect this?

I haven't heard of "28 Days Later" or "The Fog", but i dont think i want to have the beasts nature reflect their personalities although i do like the sound of it, i just dont think it could be usable in this instance as their personalities are overwhelmed by their tainted soul which totally corrupts their bodies, they are eventually turned into a "insane" souless being.

Update - Added a huge amount of information about the kobold race, let me know your thoughts about them.

Very interesting--I have to say a few things:

1. Are you deliberately trying to make kobolds have compensatory powers in exchange for their low stature? Because that's kind of how I see the racial abilities traits.

2. I do like the way you have made them less a minor humanoid group and more a developed set of creatures that claim a common descent, and have magic as part of their origins. I also like that they are linked with dragons.

QuoteVery interesting--I have to say a few things:

1. Are you deliberately trying to make kobolds have compensatory powers in exchange for their low stature? Because that's kind of how I see the racial abilities traits.

2. I do like the way you have made them less a minor humanoid group and more a developed set of creatures that claim a common descent, and have magic as part of their origins. I also like that they are linked with dragons.
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thanks