So I've had a month off writing. For a bit, the change has been welcome- it's been several hours more a week I can spend cooking, or watching TV, or making models, or one of my other many, many hobbies. But I'm missing my writing, so I'll be back, don't worry. It's just a matter of juggling my time, and trying to steal back desk space from my work-from-home desk.
I've been working on some campaign setting ideas and concepts, and I'll be trying to put down some concepts here, but as a reminder (and so I can find them to refer to later), I've got these ones so far. They might end up as different ideas, or I might combine some of them together. The Shattered World This concept is that the world is a literally broken planet with floating earthbergs, following a techno-magical apocalypse some time in the past. Changes: - Could include Dark Sun-ish elements like mass battle and vehicle chase/combat, also lots of riding critters? - healing (use HD? Exhaustion?) - crafting and inventing - magic? (Incl. defiling?) - motivation - armour types, combinations and piecemeal armour - weapons should be disposable or breakable? - Animus creature type (AI, no body at all) ('Spark'?) - ranged combat Fighter type - robot type constructs that gain vulnerability to attacks when they're damaged (below half hp?) Alternate Colonialism This concept involves Victorian-style gentlemen-adventurers travelling to other realities through portals. Their technology runs on some kind of Unobtanium (rare mineral found in other realities) that has caused their own existence to be post-scarcity, while the unrefined mineral decays realities and leads to planar dissonance creeping in, and eroding their existence altogether. - Ribbons/medals/favours from people - Rescue missions or escort missions to help people adventure /escape / evacuate fraying realms Chosen Ones Superheroes/ Chosen Ones/ Power Rangers/ Demigods where PCs are much better than ‘ordinary’ people Epic Adventures Some kind of Epic setting/expansion? Forgotten Bridgerton Realms Space/ non-space Opera social drama - what happens if you take the 'fighting monsters' out of D&D and use it for telling social conflict stories? Anyway, these are some of the ideas I've been rolling around recently. I've also got some paid writing gigs on working on, so I'll update as I get time! |
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