Random Setting Ideas, now by anyone who feels like posting.

[Endless_Helix]

A world where abstracts like peace, prosperity, and hate are actual physical edifices and people. These 'advanced beings' and 'genius loci' influence events  by manipulating normal people to their own ends...

[Cube Melon]

A world where gravity is sideways, and so the world is a giant wall which can be scaled or climbed. Alternatively, perhaps less drastically, it could be a giant mountain, or perhaps a floating island whose bottom and sides could be explored. (Cave Story, anyone?)

[SDragon]

a world almost entirely (90-98%... ish) covered in water. but unlike the typical waterworld settings, the deepest the water gets is approximately 3-9 feet, with the majority being a foot deep, or less.

[SilvercatMoonpaw]

a world almost entirely (90-98%... ish) covered in water. but unlike the typical waterworld settings, the deepest the water gets is approximately 3-9 feet, with the majority being a foot deep, or less.

And it shall be named "Dampworld".

No seriously, interesting idea: and entire planet covered in a shallow  sea.

The "abstract ideas walk among us" is good.  Reminds me of my "gods walk among us" concept (and that other people then used).

As to the different world designs, I once thought of having a giant floating island with the house of a god on top, only we're talking a mountain-sized house.  It was abandoned by the god who once lived there and colonized by various creatures.

[SA]

The "abstracts walk among us" idea sounds like Nobilis, possibly the greatest diceless rpg in the universe.

[Matt Larkin (author)]

a world almost entirely (90-98%... ish) covered in water. but unlike the typical waterworld settings, the deepest the water gets is approximately 3-9 feet, with the majority being a foot deep, or less.

If you are playing D&D, it'd be the perfect setting for those vampire rays in MM2 that no one can spell without looking up.

[Captain Obvious]

Ixitchtl, i believe.
that's prolly not the correct spelling though.
setting idea kicks ass though.

small mammals would have trouble.
amphibians would abound.
and the mighty dire hippos would rule the food chain.

man this setting sounds better and better.

[SilvercatMoonpaw]

An idustrial world devoid of any natural plants or bodies of water, completely covered in sooty clouds and buildings of iron and stone, and the only way for the races to survive is to subjugate themselves to the demons formed from the poisons of industry.

Drow are the only remaining elves.  They are the ones who gave in to the demons, their skin becoming black from the poison (there is a real condition caused by lead poisoning that turns skin black).
Dwarves led the industrial charge, and fully embraced the demons before anyone else.  They are the buyers and sellers of everything.  And they're always trying to cheat you.
Humans are the vermin of the setting.  They don't breed fast enough to be a cheap workforce, and they no longer have the advantage of adaptaion.  The are the barbarians of the setting, living in the sewers, the forgotten corners, anywhere abandoned from which they can raid the rest of the world.
Orcs are the heavy labor.  Strong and big, but not so big that they require too much food, and their dumb.  Plus they breed fast.  Drawback is that they're dumb.
They ratling is the race for the tiny, delicate work.  They've got tiny hands, they're clever, but they can be distracted and eagerly go with the crowd.  What were they before? Some kind of fey? A tiny "humanoid" race?  Who cares?
Dragons are the embodiments of the elements of the world around them.  These days they're made from iron, soot, the blood of the workers that died from exhaustion, etc.  They're on the side of whoever pays better.

[Epic Meepo]

...the demons formed from the poisons of industry.

Humans are the vermin of the setting...
[The ratlings are] the race for the tiny, delicate work.[/quote]
You know you're at the bottom of the totem pole when you're more vermin than a talking rat.

[SilvercatMoonpaw]

Industrial demons. You must be reading my mind, because that's kinda, sorta what demons are in the World of Cebexia/Age of Crystalfire setting I'm slowly putting together from everyone's contributions.

have[/i] to submit themselves to the rule of technology in order to simply survive.  Thus they made their own overlords out of their folly.

You know you're at the bottom of the totem pole when you're more vermin than a talking rat.

This is part of my "make humans the b*thces" campaign.  I don't like humans, so I try to make them the most dispised part of a setting.
I wasn't intending to make the ratlings humanoid rats at first, more like another name for halflings, but now I think it works better.

[Matt Larkin (author)]

I don't like humans, so I try to make them the most dispised part of a setting.

Wow.  RL must suck huh?  

On behalf of the human race: :cry:

[SilvercatMoonpaw]

Wow.  RL must suck huh?

Just because I don't like us doesn't mean RL is too much of a pain.  I just find humans typically stupid :morons: and think they need to learn some humility.  :poke:

On behalf of the human race: :cry:

Yes, that's it!  Cry!  CRY FOR ME, B*TCHES! :axe:

Sometimes you just need a good :hammer: .

[Stargate525]

a world almost entirely (90-98%... ish) covered in water. but unlike the typical waterworld settings, the deepest the water gets is approximately 3-9 feet, with the majority being a foot deep, or less.

And it shall be named "Dampworld".

No seriously, interesting idea: and entire planet covered in a shallow  sea.

haha. The planet came out of the dryer a few million years too soon.

That's a really interesting concept though. with most of the water being less than a foot deep, you would only have the smallest of fish.

I would foresee this place being taken over by legions of enormous, water-rooted trees, and the world turning onto one huge swamp.



as for that egg setting idea, Now we know for a fact that the Chicken came before the Egg. (I can't believe I'm the first one to make that crack.)

[SilvercatMoonpaw]

as for that egg setting idea, Now we know for a fact that the Chicken came before the Egg. (I can't believe I'm the first one to make that crack.)

That name comes from the fact that I once, for about an hour, had a sub with the last name ofâ,¬'â,¬'I swear I am not making this upâ,¬'â,¬'Chicken.  John Chicken.

[Ghost]

There's one I tried to develop, but found way too far from any D&D mythos, or any non-freeform system atmosphere, to commit to one over another. I may still use it as a setting for short stories, but that'll probably be it.

I called it 'Rayne' as a temporary title.

In short, it takes place in about 3090 CE, on a somewhat distant planet. A colonization attempt was made in 2450, since the planet already had favorable conditions, but the large colony ship crashed before it could land safely. However, a few pods managed to jettison before the impact, and landed in several parts of the world. The descendents of the settlers remember Earth only in legends and mythology, though Terran gods and culture have influenced their development for many centuries. The people are not back up to the level of technology they originally were, as many computer systems were damaged, and rendered inoperable; they use swords and crossbows, along with a few electrical systems, but no pistols or much in the way of fossil fuels other than coal.

What made the ship crash was another matter entirely. What the settlers didn't know, was that a very powerful, and very insane being, who claimed to be the merged consciousness of an entire race of magically poweful beings, had managed to influence the minds of the ships's crew and passengers, and even steer the ship itself, guiding it towards it's body, in an apparent act of suicide. When the ship impacted this being, it's magical potential was scattered across the landscape, creating ever more chaos the closer one gets to the wreck. But at the middle latitudes, the magic is calm, and low, enough for humans to be able to manipulate.

As well, this being had an affinity to rain, so it rains almsot everywhere on the planet for 420 days out of the 440 days in the planet's year. Needless to say, this has been a problem the humans have had to overcome.

As for any kind of quests players might find in this setting...well, I hadn't come to that part yet. But, i'm thinking they could find old computer parts, or jewelry taken form the original passengers of the ship, that the few people who could resist the warping magics at the crash site recovered during the centuries.

I know, it's a strange setting, but I think if I managed to flesh it out more, it could have potential to be fun and thought-provoking.