An E6 SRD world

Intro

This is a project page for a Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 edition campaign setting, being created by me, Mr Adventurer. The premise is a setting where all character classes cap at sixth experience level, and the world is scaled to more appropriately match. I'll be using the System Reference Document as much as possible, using the creatures provided and the lens of E6 to create this setting as I go. "E6" is 'the game inside Dungeons & Dragons', and can be found here.

Looking at the Monsters: A

Aboleth

An Aboleth is CR 7 and is a Huge 'revolting fishlike amphibian found primarily in subterranean lakes and rivers'. At that Challenge Rating, in an an E6 world we want these creatures to have a pretty low population - but we also need to take into account the specific powers, and the expected environment - both of which can be disproportionately difficult to deal with when you're level 6.

• Aboleths are Far Realm incursion creatures. During some great metaphysical cataclysm in prehistory, the universe fractured and, somehow, Aboleths came into being. Now they inhabit the Darkways, a network of stygian underground rivers and lakes that, it is rumoured, could potentially allow them access to any body of water anywhere. There is only one civilisation of Aboleths, ruled over by the nameless Aboleth Mage. From their impossibly deep watery lairs, they launch raids on sentient creatures for slaves and other, more inscrutible purposes.

But with the Aboleth Mage, CR 17, things are really interesting. At that challenge, there can really only be one such creature - and so we have our first Beast of Legend or Manifest God. It's a 10th level Wizard, so possesses arcane powers far beyond the grasp of the most powerful PC arcanists. As a Wizard, it could concievably have any spell of 5th level or less. That is an astounding range of power in an E6 campaign.

• The Aboleth Mage is the nameless god of the Far Realm Aboleths. It resides in the deepest subterranean lakes in the depths of the earth, where it slumbers, feeds on an endless stream of slaves and tribute from the Aboleth race, and casts dark magics.

Angel

Angel, Astral Deva Angel, Planetar Angel, Solar

Archon

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