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===Geography=== | ===Geography=== | ||
Revision as of 03:01, 26 August 2015
Contents
Currently voting
History and Mythology
Which of the following propositions do you support or oppose?
1: The hero of Myth III was the child of the hero of Myth II. III follows II.
2: The hero of Myth II was the child of the hero of Myth III. II follows III.
5: The hero of Myth VII is the same as the hero of whichever of Myth II and Myth III comes later.
6: Myth IX occurs as an interlude in Myth VII, before trickster-god joins the quest, and stars the same hero.
Geography
Politics and Society
How numerous are the PC races? 19 points to distribute across these races:
Humans Orcs Dwarves Elves Gnomes Halflings Dragonborn
Miscellaneous
Do you support or oppose the following propositions?
1: The insect-folk cannot even be traded with; they are incomprehensible, even with magical assistance.
2: Humanoids do not know how the insect-folk communicate among themselves; trade with them is conducted by trained interpreters who have developed a basic sign-language that the insect-folk are able to use.
3: The insect-folk speak language C, but not always in a way that makes sense to humanoids.
What is the campaign's starting level?
(Question from Metal Fatigue)
A: 1: I like the full zero-to-hero experience, and don't mind how squishy 5e chars can be at first level
B: 3: I like zero-to-hero but let's start with our archetypes picked out and slightly less squishy
C: 6: It's the next triangular number after 1 and 3, and also a good midrange level
D: Something higher
Open for discussion
History and Mythology
How long-settled is the region?
(Question from Kelly Pedersen)
1: It's a wild frontier, being inhabited for the very first time. Adventures in the area are heavily weighted towards exploration and dealing with wilderness threats.
1b: As above, except that it's a frontier being re-settled after a very long period of being uninhabited. Adventures like the above, but with a salting of "exploring ancient ruins" and "figuring out why the region wasn't settled before."
2: The region has been settled for a few generations, but the frontier is still close by. Adventures can involve exploration and wilderness threats, but they also feature the growth and development of society and the interactions between communities.
3: The region was settled many generations ago, and is far from any frontier. Adventures usually involve the interactions between well-established communities, with feuds, old grudges, long-standing alliances, and known quantities featuring heavily.
4: The region is a cradle of civilization of the overall area, with settlement stretching back to the beginning. Adventures can involve interactions between established communities, but these relationships are so stable at this point that the outcomes of conflicts is often pre-ordained. Many adventures will instead involve exploring various relics of civilization - the tombs, fallen temples, or burned palaces of those who have gone before.
Geography
How shall we devise the world map?
Politics and Society
Which races are at odds?
Is this much political and philosophical strife enough?
Miscellaneous
For each language out of Common, Orcish, Old Imperial, and Elvish, what is the naming convention?
1: Personal names only
2: Personal name plus family name
3: Personal name plus clan name
4: Personal name, clan name, and nickname
5: Personal name plus patronymic/matronymic
6: Personal name plus chosen name, changed at marriage
7: Personal name plus family name, changed at marriage or adoption to show fealty
8: Something else
Coming soon
History and Mythology
What stories make up the recent history of the region?
Geography
What's the nearest large city like?
(Question by Unka Josh)
1: A military base left behind from a great war, its civil officers all bearing honorary military ranks, its mayor called a "General" despite having no military command, its fashions based around imitating mail and plate with cloth.
2: A floating city formed out of a vast armada all chained together, with different neighborhoods formed by ships of a style of a given nation.
3: A city built out over the Tallest Tree in the World. Living in its shadow is a slum of exiles from the city; refuse from the city above rains down on them, and they live in perpetual shadow.
4: The Bonehunter City, built next to a chasm that's full of the stony bones of long-dead animals no one has seen before. Scholars and necromancers are constantly digging more of these bones, or paying workers to do the digging for them... or paying adventurers to steal prize specimens from each other.
Politics and Society
How much ideological difference is there on this world?
(Question from Yadal)
1: Almost none: Everybody has the same basic ideas of how things should be done, or everything is very clearly Good v.s Evil. This would be like a typical feudal state or fantasy setting, but limits opportunities.
2: Live and Let Live: There are a lot of well known differences in the world, and plenty of anatagonism and debate but a fundamental unity of enough assumptions (except for maybe the cliched Evil) to keep things working. A good comparison would be the Left v.s Right political differences in a typical modern Nation State.
3: Major differences: This would involve two or more ideologies with differences comparable to Capitalism and Communism, or the French Revolution v.s traditionalist conservatives. Basic assumptions are shared (like the equality of women in one case, or the existence of fundamentally different nationalities in the other) but ideologies are nonetheless opposed.
4: Radical: Ideological difference level of two or more ideologies is more like United States v.s ISIS, with comprehension difficulties accordingly. Not necessarily factions which are ISIS evil, but ones which share almost no basic assumptions.
