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[Spiderking50]

Oh god no, I was talking more like Stonesoup or Cataclysm with a fantasy theme.

[Rex Invictus]

Spoiler: Current Results (click to show/hide)

Current results. I wasn't expecting such a resurgence in activity. I'll leave it up until midnight GMT and then take it down tomorrow sometime.

Oh god no, I was talking more like Stonesoup or Cataclysm with a fantasy theme.

It'd have to be the central focus of the game and that's unlikely here. I'll definitely consider it as part of demonology and maybe the magic system, though. Fire mages having their hair turn into fire is thematic and cool.

[Rex Invictus]

Spoiler: Race + Class Final Results (click to show/hide)

Final results. The red line is the cut off point. For races, that means those races will, 99%, not be included, at least not until a time in the distant future. For "classes", that means as much development time as is humanly possible will be focused above the red line.

[Calidovi]

PTW and how can this be an anime world if it doesn't bear the art style? Wouldn't it just be a punk-fantasy-western world? And just how outlandish do you plan the random generations to be?

[Rex Invictus]

Spoiler: The Factions (click to show/hide)

Introduction
The world is a vast and mysterious place. There are tracts of land that no mortal eyes have laid upon and sights unseen so beautiful that they would make a man weep for joy. There are creatures so fantastic that no man would ever believe the tales of he who saw them.
But I digress. Humanity (and it's demihuman variants) will still carve the world into it's constituent parts and chew on the bones for as long as they live.

The Great Peace
A hundred years ago today, as I write this book, the nations of this fair world signed a great accord. The threat of the destruction of all life upon this planet was upon us due to this part of the text has been torn away

The Commonwealth
Human's truest bastion against the tides of demihumanity that endlessly rock the political waves of the world, the Commonwealth is the united nations of man under the Autarch Innocent. United by the Holy Book, the Commonwealth has driven out all unhuman influences from it's political system and now only employs demihumans as cheap labour and the like. The only true non-human life given any precedence within the Commonwealth is the constructs employed as guardsmen by the rulers themselves.

The Dead Clans
Far to the north of the Commonwealth is the land of the Dead Clans. Brutal raiders, master smiths and, from what I've been told, surprisingly able chefs, the Dead Clans are a group of thanatocracies ruled by undead chieftains.

The only nation in the world to enshrine necromancy as a matter of religious and cultural fact, the Dead Clans are united by their traditions of bringing their greatest heroes back from the dead to rule them. Although the resurrection often leads to great memory loss, it is said that those brought back from death often still feel warmth and love towards those they have been brought back from death. The dwarven mountainclans are often included amongst this number, as they practice the same things as the human clans who dwell closer to the ocean.

The Wolf Khaganate
To the east of the Commonwealth is the Khaganate ruled by Khagan Ashkai Gutchewer. This nation was united relatively recently (they were added to the Great Peace after their formation). Once nomads and bandits, they have quickly grown to become one of the greatest military powers in the world. They have quickly changed from living in mudhuts to living in what can, semi-accurately, be described as mud palaces and their forges put out some of the deadliest weapons.

The Forest Folk
To call them a nation is inaccurate. They are only recognised by the great peace as, otherwise, there would be a great genocide of those who dwell amongst the trees. They take little and provide less and the most experience I have with them is as labour and traders within the Commonwealth itself. There have been suggestions that they have a great treecity in the world somewhere, but I take the idea of this lazy lot as doing work with a pinch of salt.

The Serpent Cities
The Serpent Cities of the far south are ruled by the greatest of dragonkind, the Dragon Kings. Dragons said to be thousands of years old, with great arcane powers, they call themselves the true inheritors of this world in which we live. Unfortunately for them, even with their arcane powers, a battle between their kind would be a disaster for both involved, completely ignoring the power gap it would leave afterwards.

Summarisation
Great Peace: The reason everyone can travel between the nations. May collapse depending on what players do. Skirmishes over disputed terrain still allowed.
Commonwealth: Primarily human, some sentient constructs. Have humanity as THE race under the one true god.
Dead Clans: Primarily human, lots of undead, some dwarves. Undeath is part of culture and religion. Imagine undead vikings who love their human descendants and you're getting the right idea.
Wolf Khaganate: Primarily orcs, lots of goblins. Essentially fantasy Mongol Empire riding wolves. Very quickly "civilising" themselves.
Forest Folk: Plant people, catpeople, minotaurs, harpies. Those who dwell amongst the trees. Druidry.
Serpent Cities: Kobolds, dragonfolk, lamia. Ruled by Dragon Kings. Only reason they haven't collapsed into internal warring is that it'd probably mean the end of the world if all the dragons went at it.

Any comments, guys?

PTW and how can this be an anime world if it doesn't bear the art style? Wouldn't it just be a punk-fantasy-western world? And just how outlandish do you plan the random generations to be?

It's a matter of conventions. For me, stuff like world-spanning adventurer's guilds (where players can sign up and get quests) is a fundamental part of anime's western fantasy. It might be a better idea to call it Japanese Western Fantasy. If you watch anime, watch Gate (coming out later this month and the manga is excellent, hell watch it even if you don't watch anime.) and you'll get a rough idea of what I mean.

The random generators aren't going to be DF-levels of out there. They'll probably be pretty constrained.

[Calidovi]

Spoiler: The Factions (click to show/hide)

Introduction
The world is a vast and mysterious place. There are tracts of land that no mortal eyes have laid upon and sights unseen so beautiful that they would make a man weep for joy. There are creatures so fantastic that no man would ever believe the tales of he who saw them.
But I digress. Humanity (and it's demihuman variants) will still carve the world into it's constituent parts and chew on the bones for as long as they live.

The Great Peace
A hundred years ago today, as I write this book, the nations of this fair world signed a great accord. The threat of the destruction of all life upon this planet was upon us due to this part of the text has been torn away

The Commonwealth
Human's truest bastion against the tides of demihumanity that endlessly rock the political waves of the world, the Commonwealth is the united nations of man under the Autarch Innocent. United by the Holy Book, the Commonwealth has driven out all unhuman influences from it's political system and now only employs demihumans as cheap labour and the like. The only true non-human life given any precedence within the Commonwealth is the constructs employed as guardsmen by the rulers themselves.

The Dead Clans
Far to the north of the Commonwealth is the land of the Dead Clans. Brutal raiders, master smiths and, from what I've been told, surprisingly able chefs, the Dead Clans are a group of thanatocracies ruled by undead chieftains.

The only nation in the world to enshrine necromancy as a matter of religious and cultural fact, the Dead Clans are united by their traditions of bringing their greatest heroes back from the dead to rule them. Although the resurrection often leads to great memory loss, it is said that those brought back from death often still feel warmth and love towards those they have been brought back from death. The dwarven mountainclans are often included amongst this number, as they practice the same things as the human clans who dwell closer to the ocean.

The Wolf Khaganate
To the east of the Commonwealth is the Khaganate ruled by Khagan Ashkai Gutchewer. This nation was united relatively recently (they were added to the Great Peace after their formation). Once nomads and bandits, they have quickly grown to become one of the greatest military powers in the world. They have quickly changed from living in mudhuts to living in what can, semi-accurately, be described as mud palaces and their forges put out some of the deadliest weapons.

The Forest Folk
To call them a nation is inaccurate. They are only recognised by the great peace as, otherwise, there would be a great genocide of those who dwell amongst the trees. They take little and provide less and the most experience I have with them is as labour and traders within the Commonwealth itself. There have been suggestions that they have a great treecity in the world somewhere, but I take the idea of this lazy lot as doing work with a pinch of salt.

The Serpent Cities
The Serpent Cities of the far south are ruled by the greatest of dragonkind, the Dragon Kings. Dragons said to be thousands of years old, with great arcane powers, they call themselves the true inheritors of this world in which we live. Unfortunately for them, even with their arcane powers, a battle between their kind would be a disaster for both involved, completely ignoring the power gap it would leave afterwards.

Summarisation
Great Peace: The reason everyone can travel between the nations. May collapse depending on what players do. Skirmishes over disputed terrain still allowed.
Commonwealth: Primarily human, some sentient constructs. Have humanity as THE race under the one true god.
Dead Clans: Primarily human, lots of undead, some dwarves. Undeath is part of culture and religion. Imagine undead vikings who love their human descendants and you're getting the right idea.
Wolf Khaganate: Primarily orcs, lots of goblins. Essentially fantasy Mongol Empire riding wolves. Very quickly "civilising" themselves.
Forest Folk: Plant people, catpeople, minotaurs, harpies. Those who dwell amongst the trees. Druidry.
Serpent Cities: Kobolds, dragonfolk, lamia. Ruled by Dragon Kings. Only reason they haven't collapsed into internal warring is that it'd probably mean the end of the world if all the dragons went at it.

Any comments, guys?

PTW and how can this be an anime world if it doesn't bear the art style? Wouldn't it just be a punk-fantasy-western world? And just how outlandish do you plan the random generations to be?

It's a matter of conventions. For me, stuff like world-spanning adventurer's guilds (where players can sign up and get quests) is a fundamental part of anime's western fantasy. It might be a better idea to call it Japanese Western Fantasy. If you watch anime, watch Gate (coming out later this month and the manga is excellent, hell watch it even if you don't watch anime.) and you'll get a rough idea of what I mean.

The random generators aren't going to be DF-levels of out there. They'll probably be pretty constrained.

Thanks for letting me know, and I'll be sure to keep Gate in mind.

[Rex Invictus]

Spoiler: The Non-Human Factions (click to show/hide)

Introduction
In this treatise, I will be focusing on those nations dominated by creatures of non-human origin. Namely, the Serpent Cities, the Forest Folk and the newly formed Wolf Khaganate.

On Humans Amongst The Non-Human
One of the most interesting distinctions between these groups is to show how the true scions of God are treated by them.
Amongst the tree dwellers, man runs wild, usually unwashed, longhaired and barely clothed, rutting like the animals they dwell amongst and otherwise little different to the treehugging swine we're used to.

Amongst the Serpent Cities, man is little more than a scaleless curiosity (most of the time scaleless, some say the dragon taint seeps into some bloodlines and causes men to grow snakelike and coldblooded) and used as slaves for various purposes. Lamias often use human partners as bed warmers as they produce twisted and corrupted offspring when they breed with other dragonspawn.

Amongst the Wolf Khaganate, there is little distinction between man, orc and goblin. There are separated clans of each and mixed clans of each.

Of course, one of the main reasons that humanity has yet to dominate the world is due to how breeding almost never (apart from unverified cases) resulted in a mix of any of the distinct races of human and demi-human. It is always one or the other and, as far as we can tell, randomly determined.

Forest Folk
To call them a people is inaccurate. They are more like dogs rutting in the muck. They worship the same spirits of the field and the sky that some of the Commonwealth's countryfolk still do (a practice the Church is still trying to stomp out) and can often be seen trading in our towns. The only time they ever truly band together (apart from their small tribal ways) is when someone comes to cut down one of their "holy forests".

Wolf Khaganate
One of the fastest rising powers in the world, those of the Khaganate worship the Wolf of the Night who every day hunts the Sun Deer to it's death. Formerly a bunch of meandering tribesmen wandering around their endless steppe, the work of their Khagan united them into a great nation. He was held back at the Battle of Ox Pass by the Commonwealth forces. They have since settled into a lull and begun building cities that rival those our own ancestors built.

The Khaganate is riven with infighting as, although they respect and revere their Khagan Gutchewer, his massive reforms have took their toll and they view him as trying to change their ways too much and too quickly. It is lucky for the Khagan that, in his society, might makes right and the strong take all. To break a bond of dominance is to kill the pack and to kill the pack is to kill oneself.

Serpent Cities
Ancient, esoteric and focused around the rule of the snake, the Serpent Cities were once a caste system rigidly based around the species of the individual. Lamias were on top, as they were the priestesses, mages and oracles. Dragonfolk were underneath them as warriors and generals. Kobolds were on the bottom as servitors, tradesmen and general menial labour.

Since the introduction of slavery, however, the Serpent Cities have rapidly grown much more complacent with their caste system. The dragonfolk do not wish for any of their kobold brothers to have to scrape the dirt to live when they can have the scaleless do it for them. It has been a great boon to the cities as they have quickly discovered heights of philosophy, magic and knowledge once thought lost to them.