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| As I was downloading this crude drawing of a ten-pointed star I found by searching for MULTIVERSE I was informed that I would need to credit CHARLES RICHARD BENTLEY JUNIOR: it's written in the picture! Why lord, why? |
Board your spelljammer ship, hop in TARDIS or draw a chalk circle anointed with the blood of a virgin goat by the light of a waning moon, we're about to go on a trip beyond the ordinary limitations set by sight and sound: WELCOME TO THE COLLATED LIST OF ONE POST SETTINGS, extradimensional spaces, parallel worlds, pocket dimensions and demi-planes, each offering an enticing invitation to the brave, the bold, and the brainless.
Read on.. IF YOU DARE
The list is in two parts: the first comprises posts made in response to Pandatheist and Marquis Hartis' NSR Planescape challenge, the second consists other posts which fulfil the following criteria:
- ...it details an original "setting" of the author's creation (or a setting from other media not previously explored through TTRPGs).
- ...the author has provided some gameable content (spells, classes, items, ransom tables) rather than (or in addition to) a lore-dump...
- ...the post must adequately evoke a setting. This is a vague, but broadly speaking the post should contain enough information to make the reader go "cool, I want to explore that place through a game and feel I am already able to do so", whether or not it is part of a more extensive series of posts
This is just the beginning of what I hope will be an ongoing project, so if you have any suggestions from around the blogosphere, please let me know.
NSR PLANESCAPE
- Blood | Bone | Ember | Ash are the elements of Pandatheist's inaugural contribution to the NSR Planescape challenge, a nameless plane (Caldera?) defined by the list of ten ritual spells drenched in blood, love and forbidden knowledge. https://boneboxchant.wordpress.com/2019/12/22/nsr-planescape/
- The Plane of Lightning and Thoughts aka The Noosphere is the progenitor of the knowledge that can be read and experienced through the above plane's magic. This post focuses on that special class of being that would attempt to unlock the secret origins of inspiration - the Fulmen - and expounds the true power of the occult knowledge to which they are privy. http://hmmmarquis.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-plane-of-lightning-thoughts-fulmens.html
- The Labyrinth of Hod: If the Noosphere is the origin of thought in the lightning flash of inspiration and Caldera its expression and realisation in flesh and blood, then Hod is its final imprisonment in stone. Here the difference between a soul, an idea, a spell and a deed is merely commercial value, and the magic concerns facilitating and protecting such trades: https://aloneinthelabyrinth.blogspot.com/2020/01/nsr-planescape-labyrinths-of-hod.html
3 TOADSTOOLS TEN MONSTER SETTING CHALLENGE
Full list available here: https://3toadstools.blogspot.com/search/label/tenmonstersetting
OTHER ONE PAGE SETTINGS
- Factions and locations in Broken Hill: A D10 table of post apocalyptic factions and locales, each one capable of evoking a unique taste and texture. Like Burning Man went really wrong http://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2019/11/factions-locations-in-ruins-of-broken.html
- Meatropolis: An ongoing series worthy of further investigation, but within this one post we have vendors at the meatmarket, hormone mongers, mutations for sale, exploding fruit and a shit tone of idiosyncratic stuff you'd expect to find in a society built in the decaying corpse of a gargantuan world-turtle: https://crateredland.blogspot.com/2019/11/exploring-meatropolis.html
- Britannia Apocalyptica: Mr Screw-on-Head's Christmas gift to me (and all of you, too) was this elegant hexcrawl generator set in a fantasy version of post-roman Britain. Incredibly evocative, and capable of creating an almost infinite array of magical-yet-miserable hexes https://wasitlikely.blogspot.com/2019/12/secret-santicorn-post-roman-pre-saxon.html
- Diceblade's Alternate Dimension Generator is a series of tables "for the times when the party open a gateway to Somewhere, and you have no clue what that is. Or simply when you want to start a new campaign and want a surprise." https://diceblade.blogspot.com/2019/11/alternate-dimension-generator.html
- Strange Maps of the Astuary Propheteer Locals Given that certain cities "...expand beyond the limits of comprehension..." who better to ask for guidance than a local? A d20 table that can easily be re-skinned as a point crawl generator for a sci-fi setting. http://astuarypropheteer.blogspot.com/2019/10/locals.html
- Notes on "Biomega" setting Kyana provides us with a beautiful rendering of Biomega, the "relatively short manga made by Tsutomu Nihei": a truly otherworldly biopunk science fantasy mashup http://noisesanssignal.blogspot.com/2020/01/notes-on-biomega-setting.html
As stated above, this is an ongoing project and your input is highly valued. Any suggestions of posts you deem suitable for this list are welcomed with open arms, either in the comments below or via other platforms.
- Sofinho
(DM in Exile)
Thank you.
ReplyDeleteI am thinking now about adding human generator for Biomega (so it fits "some gameable content" criterion, but it will either break the flow of the main post or will require a second post (thus making it not-one-page setting).
I didn't add spell-lists because I thought that amount and limits of magic would be up to each DM and the post provides good base of what these abilities could be.
You're very welcome.
DeleteYeah I think that maybe the gameable content thing is a somewhat... strident?... I mean, who defines gameable? Fact is, all the elements you mention in your post are gameable. And it's really well-written. So it's on the list!
The spell list was something specific to Marquis and Pandatheist, and my interpretation is not that these are the only spells in town, but that the spells listed give a flavour of the setting: like I presume if a magic-user became a Fulmen following the ritual Marquis described they would still keep their spellbook and be able to cast those spells...
Anyway, thanks again for your sublime post.