A Homebrew Outline

[Elton Robb]

I'm using the real world as World Class Inspiration.  Essentially, you're correct, but I'm using the real world as inspiration at this point.  For instance: The period covered by Genesis 10 is very sketchy, since Genesis 10 only gives a table of Nations and not what each nation is doing.

So, I found some interesting websites that make both factual and wild claims about that time period (it's very, very Dark, the time between 2700 B.C. and 2,000 B.C.), since Mankind had to redevelop writing.  I needed something to get the nations to the Renaissance and Post Renaissance.  But I need to also know how they got there.  Wild claims of Men genetically creating Giants of themselves to conquer the world, make a good plot point as any.  Therefore, there can be a people as bloodthirsty as the Kurgan from Highlander (movie) ever was.  But I needed a reason why they got that way, and Legend says that there is two Spiritual Princes: Azael and Smazja.  So, dragons work as good as any.

The Black Plague was spread by a Little Ice Age that spanned between 1250 A.D. to 1900 A.D.  The Black Plague made 1/3 of the Population of Europe die.  I thought, to get people using guns quickly with Magic and Armor is to make it linked to the Undead.  In Warcraft III, the Scourge was created so that the Burning Legion can take the World Tree in Kalimdor.  In my world, Azael and Smajza were defeated but they themselves became undead.  Azael became a Wraith, and Smajza became a Dracolich.  So, the Undead is linked to a Black Plague, and is just another attempt to take over the world by these Dragons.

But inspiration comes from WoW, Eberron, and the Forgotten Realms.  But the major pattern of inspiration is the Time Period between Elizabethian England to the 3 Musketeers to the Early 18th Century (King Charles the First of England). The Geography of the World is significantly diffferent.  Massalia, for instance (Greek name for Marseilles) juts in a warm sea like an eagle's talon.  Caithness is a collection of islands that form a rough triangle or mound.

So, yes, you are right: but only to a point.

and to answer your question: I don't know yet how much magic exists.

But the WoW p&p RPG solves a lot of problems already.  They have stats for fire arms, and more monsters to use. And since the WoW RPG is d20/OGL, it uses the Dungeons and Dragons rules.  So it's simple to make a few cut and pastes when I make the document.

Elton.
 

[Elton Robb]

[spoiler=Planar Outline]

The Absolute World -- The World where the Source of all Life, Abundance, Power, and Beauty exists.

The Relative World -- The Material Plane.

Sherim -- World of High Magic.

Dracandos -- World of Dragons.

The Swirling Ether -- the Ethereal Plane

The Spirit World

The Twisting Nether (pronounced Neither) -- The Netherworld
[/spoiler]

Monster List

[spoiler=Monster Manual: A through Do]

Aboleth
 Aboleth Mage
Allip
Angel
Archon
Arrowhawk
Assassin Vine
Centaur
Chimera
Cockatrice
Digester
Dire Animals
Doppleganger[/spoiler]

[spoiler][Spoiler=Dragons]
Dragon, Red
Dragon, Blue
Dragon, Green
Dragon, Black
Dragon, White
Dragon, Gold
Dragon Bronze
Dragon, Copper
Dragon, Silver
Dragon, Brass[/spoiler][/spoiler]

Dracolich (see the FRCS)

[spoiler][Spoiler=Giant Eagle through Ettin]
Giant Eagle
Elemental
Elf
  Half-Elf
  High Elf
  Aquatic Elf
  Drow
  Wild Elf
  Wood Elf
  Massalian Elf

Ethereal Filcher
Ethereal Marauder
Ettercap
Ettin (Giant)[/Spoiler][/spoiler]

[spoiler=F]Fiendish Creature
Frost Worm
Fungus[/spoiler]

[spoiler=G]Gargoyle
Genie
Ghoul[/spoiler]

[spoiler=Giant through Halfling]Giant
  Stone Giant (Orc)
  Forest Giant (Elf)
  Hill Giant (Man)
Gibbering Mouther
Gnoll
Gnome
Golem
Griffin/Gryphon
Hag
Half-Dragon
Halfling[/spoiler]

[spoiler=Hy through K]Hydra
Inevitable
Invisible Stalker
Kraken[/spoiler]
#
[spoiler=Monsters (L)]

    * Leonal
    * Lillend
    * Lizardfolk
    * Locathah
    * Lycanthrope
          o Werebear
          o Wereboar
                + Hill Giant Dire Wereboar
          o Wererat
          o Weretiger
          o Werewolf
                + Werewolf Lord[/spoiler]
[spoiler=Monsters (M)]
# Medusa
# Mephit

    * Air Mephit
    * Dust Mephit
    * Earth Mephit
    * Fire Mephit
    * Ice Mephit
    * Magma Mephit
    * Ooze Mephit
    * Salt Mephit
    * Steam Mephit
    * Water Mephit

# Merfolk
# Mimic
# Mohrg[/spoiler]

[spoiler=Ooze]

    * Black Pudding
          o Elder Black Pudding
    * Gelatinous Cube
    * Gray Ooze
    * Ochre Jelly[/spoiler]

[spoiler=Monsters o] Orc

    * Half-Orcs

# Otyugh
# Owl, Giant[/spoiler]


[spoiler=Monsters (P)]

    * Pegasus
    * Phantom Fungus
    * Phase Spider
    * Planetouched
          o Aasimar
          o Tiefling
    * Pseudodragon[/spoiler]

[spoiler=Monsters R]
# Razor Boar
# Remorhaz
# Roc[/spoiler]


[spoiler]# Sahuagin

    * Sahuagin Mutants
          o Malenti

# Salamander
# Satyr
# Scorpionfolk
# Sea Cat
# Shadow

    * Greater Shadow

# Shadow Mastiff
# Shambling Mound
# Shield Guardian
# Shocker Lizard
# Skum
# Spectre
# Sphinx

    * Androsphinx
    * Criosphinx
    * Gynosphinx
    * Hieracosphinx

# Spider Eater
# Sprite

    * Grig
    * Nixie
    * Pixie

# Stirge
# Swarm

    * Bat Swarm
    * Centipede Swarm
    * Hellwasp Swarm
    * Locust Swarm
    * Rat Swarm
    * Spider Swarm

#
Monsters (W)

    * Wight
    * Will-O'-Wisp
    * Winter Wolf
    * Worg
    * Wraith
          o Dread Wraith
    * Wyvern
[/spoiler]

Monsters from the WoW RPG Monster Guide

[spoiler]Basilisk 11
Black ooze 12
Bloodpetal 13
Carrion grub 14
Cloud serpent 16
Core hound 17
Corrupted creature 19
Example: Fel orc 20
Crowd pummeler 9-60 20
Crypt fiend 22
Example: Nerubian worker crypt fiend 24
Darkhound 24
Dinosaur 25
Devilsaur 25
Diemetradon 27
Pterrordax 28
Stegodon 29
Threshadon 30
Dire animals 31
Dire ape 31
Dire bat 32
Dire bear 32
Dire boar 33
Dire condor 34
Dire hyena 34
Dire lion 35
Dire Gargoyle 36
Doomguard 37
Dragons 39
Black dragon 40
Bronze dragon 42
Green dragon 44
Red dragon 46
Dragonspawn 48
Dreadlord 50
Dwarf, Dark Iron 51
Elementals 53
Air elementals 54
Earth elementals 56
Fire elementals 58
Lava elementals 60
Water elementals 61
Elf, blood 64
Elite creature 66
Example: Dark Iron rifleman 66
Entropic beast 67
Felguard 68
Felhound 70
Felsteed 71
Flamewaker 73
Ghost 74
Example: Ghostly warrior 76
Ghoul 76
Giant, frost 78
Giant, molten 79
Giant, sea 80
Gnoll 82
Gnome, leper 83
Golem 85
Harvest golem 85
Grell 86
Harpy 87
Helboar 88
Hydra 89
Imp 91
Infernal 92
Kobold 94
Lich 95
Example: Human lich 97
Makrura 98
Mana surge 101
Mechanized animal 103
Example: Mechanostrider 104
Naga 105
Obsidian destroyer 108
Obsidian statue 109
Primal ooze 110
Quilboar 111
Risen 114
Example: Risen warrior 115
Rock borer 116
Satyr 117
Scorpid 119
Shade 120
Silithid 121
Reaver 122
Swarmer 123
Wasp 124
Skeletal creature 125
Example: Skeletal warrior 126
Succubus 127
Swarm 129
Bat swarm 129
Rat swarm 130
Tar beast 131
Thistleshrub 132
Timberling 133
Trogg 135
Troll, ice 137
Voidwalker 138
Wendigo 140
Wildkin 141
Withered creature 143
Example: Rot Hide gnoll 144
Worg 145
Worgen 146
Wraith 148
Zombie 148
Example: Human zombie 150[/spoiler]

Someone complained of Spoiler space.  Alright, I added some.  Happy now?

[Raelifin]

AAaaahhh!!! The edit button creates a time paradox! I'm writing my congressman!

[Matt Larkin (author)]

Why do you have # or * or other symbols next to some monsters? Why make a list at all, when it seems to include most of the MM? Would it not be easier to say what core stuff you don't want?

[Elton Robb]

Why do you have # or * or other symbols next to some monsters? Why make a list at all, when it seems to include most of the MM? Would it not be easier to say what core stuff you don't want?

Sure

Nothing excluded from the System Reference Document.  :demon:
 :D

[Elton Robb]

Nevermind this post for now.