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[Xaositect_Crayon]

I meen we all know what we dislike about the current ones like Dark Sun and Dragonlance... so why not make the "Forgotten wars community campaign setting" for a laugh.

[Ismail]

What do you mean exactly? With board members as the Famous Figures of the boards? Domi as our version of Elminster and Immortality as Khelben?

[Xaositect_Crayon]

nahhh we just make our own world and history and npcs and make it so that it can be played using whichever edition of DND you want

[Ismail]

heh... I'd be game. I'll ask a friend'o'mine to join in... she's insanely packed with ideas...

[Cryomancer]

That sounds like fun...I have a thousand ideas for races and all that, and I'm sure everyone else does, too.

[Xaositect_Crayon]

yeah it'd be great
let's get a full house before we start anything though

[Schatten]

many of the members here are already working or fine tuning their own mods. and a tc needs some good modders or you needs lots of time and effort to do and the result may not be what you expect.
but it would be fun. and the idea of npc from members of this forum would be good, too.

[Cryomancer]

I didn't know we were talking about a game . I thought it was just in general. Like PnP.

[Xaositect_Crayon]

yeah we are talking about general pnp I just wanted to get a few people in here before we brainstorm

[Schatten]

ups, okay.

i want cyborgs in there.

[Cyric]

and I want a omnipotent god of murder, madness, humour and ice-cream

serious: this could be interesting. I will contribute with something when the brainstorm begins

[Xaositect_Crayon]

we'll give it another day to gather people then we'll start brainstorming...
I already got some ideas to put down

[Cryomancer]

I've had ideas for a long time, and maybe now I can put them to use.

[Shadow Angel]

Sounds like fun. I can throw out some ideas.

[Schatten]

as a magic system i think the rune based like ultima is a good one. i like that more then the stricted preset spell system.

[Xaositect_Crayon]

Rules:
For the sake of easyness.. there are no planar portals anywhere on this world.

explain the Rune system? I never seen it before...

I think more of a jungle like setting would work than a typical foresty fantasy setting.. a world of jungles

Also the only carryover classes that are unchanged should be
Fighter
Thief
Bard (or not, depending on how we use magic they might loose their mage spells or gain a spell system of their own)

in my opinion of course...

[Cyric]

I've always seen bards only like a cross betwen fighters and thiefs, without any magic but with some charisma/barter/wisdom bonuses. I don't see a reason why a troubadour should know any other magic than reading scrolls with spells.

[Cryomancer]

I was thinking of a mana based spell system, for the sake of easiness to understand. You cast a spell, you lose mana. You cast a lot of spells, you run out of mana. Simple as that. Also, we need some new races. We could still keep the classics, like elves dwarves orcs and humans, but we need some new ones.

[Cyric]

Just some first thoughts to a new race
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Waqins

Eons ago a highly evoluted species of fish leaved their mindles state and became aware of itself. As time passed they developed humanoid form and discovered the surface.
The Waqins are tall hairless humanoids with grey or blue scales instead of skin. Their fingerless foots are shaped like paddles and between the fingers on hand they have web. Their eyes are usually red or black and teeths long and sharp.
Their natural living-space is water and that makes them to excelent swimers and the best fighters under wather.
The Waqin society is a well organised dictatorship ruled by The Great Tyrant. Their cities are built on the bottoms of sea pits and are usually administrated by a council of three Keepers. Men and woman live separated but are equal to eachother. Waqins know no such thing like marriage and practise polygamy.


+can breath under water
+imune to cold
+some poison resistance
+darkvision
+bonus to agility and strenght
-low charisma
-reduced visibility in light
-can't breath air for more than a month - they must regenerate in water for some time

Edited by Cyric, 24 June 2004 - 09:05 AM.

[taza]

Hmm... wouldn't a FW campaing setting have custom monsters (SlidMang0) and special classes (priest of tomas)?