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[micelus]

The world is a great and interesting place. Let's make another one!

Some guidelines to enhance creativity! Supposedly!
1. Try to go something different from the generic DnD setting.
2. Try to put a new spin on old concepts.
3. Have fun.

I'll start:

The world is a sphere.

[FallacyofUrist]

The world is trapped in between four stars. They're gravitationally balanced to the point where the stars orbit around the planet.
Unsurprisingly, the planet is something of a wasteland... on the surface.

[endlessblaze]

Underneath the surface tunnels and caverns strech to the very deaths of the planet. Plant life is maintained by the sun crystals that can be found throught the caverns.

[Harry Baldman]

The entire thing is thought to have been the result of a clever inversion of planets and suns by some god or another. Nobody really knows which one, as after this occurrence (the Great Inversion as most orthodox cosmologies have it) the other gods seem to have rage-quit the universe, and the remaining god seems to have stuck around only long enough to mess around a bit before getting bored and leaving as well. The resulting world seems to be entirely godless as a result.

[NJW2000]

The dominant sentient species resembles a five foot long hairy sock. Their weapons shoot poetry.

[Harry Baldman]

It is the dominant species largely because it is the only sentient species. They maintain that this is so because of an ancient military campaign that got all their enemies together in one big battle and destroyed them all. This is, of course, a lie. There have never been any other sentient species created but them. To be honest, they may in fact be the only species, period - even the plants are likely just these same people, but highly sedentary and maybe a mite inbred. Well, maybe not quite so closely related. They can interbreed with the plants, though. Discovered through experimentation, of course.

[NJW2000]

Their glorious leaders however remain ever vigilante against threats from the far reaches of space, or disturbed individuals from within the planet. They also ensure that there is enough music for everyone to eat.

[micelus]

There are very few plant species although the few that do dominate the ecosystems of the planet. Consisting mainly of low-lying hairy moss and grasses, these 'plants' are in turn fed upon by fungi and other immobile organisms. Most mobile organisms prefer to feed on the fungi rather than the plants due to hardy tissues present in the plants. The Race tend to cultivate species for their unique sounds.

[Harry Baldman]

The Race can't quite agree on what music everyone should eat. Some prefer one kind. Some prefer another. Some deeply disturbed individuals like the silence of non-creation. This is the source of great animosity between the tribes. Especially ones that have overlapping territory and thus high concern for ambient noise. It is also the source of what passes for tribal/national/political identity in the caves.

[micelus]

While most of the Race's societies are tribal, a few city-states have begun to emerge in areas in audio-rich ecosystems. Writing has been invented causing a great increase in population in the process. So-called god-kings have begun to popup, proclaiming themselves living deities to their populace.

[NJW2000]

The wildest tribes live closest to the surface. The cannibals, who feed on the beating of drums made from their ancestors' skin, almost dwell in the open.

The invention of writing sadly preceded the use of poetry as a weapon by only a few generations. This lead to war becoming more gruesome and widespread throughout the world.

[micelus]

Magic consists of superstitions, herbalism, common sense and parlour tricks. However, every now and then an organism accidently emulates a long-gone god's actions so perfectly that supposedly impossible events come to be. Of course, these events would have to fit in with the purview of the god, which is made difficult by the fact that no one remembers who or what the gods are or were. What deities most people remember now have been changed, divided or fused together as time passed.

Of course, that doesn't mean no one has figured out the whole thing.

[Harry Baldman]

To walk the footsteps of a long-gone god is to know inspiration, and to bring forth wonders from the four worlds-that-were, things unlike anything seen or heard by most, if not all. Inspiration is largely imperfect, and what it brings may often be of questionable usefulness or even outright harm to one's self and the auditory harmony of the nearby community. Occasionally, however, what inspiration brings is of meaning and value - the music of the gods, objects of power, shaping of caves to create divine acoustics. It is upon such gifts that a god-king may build a state, or a scholar a grand tradition. Though more often than not you see the same attempted with... less suitable inspirations. More depressingly, it sometimes even works.

[NJW2000]

The group of greatest power at this moment is a loose collection of tribes all of whom prefer a musical style made by cavern winds whistling through hollow tubes.

[Harry Baldman]

The Thirty-Three Tribes are indeed loosely associated, and can perhaps be held to not be a proper political power at all, or at least vestigial compared to the height of their power some five centuries ago. However, their history and invention of the principle of ever-playing music powered by divinely inspired cavern weather has made all of them into legitimate figures of myth. These days virtually all rulers attempt to trace their lineage to a member of one of the clans under the Tribes, and the ancient cavern complex of Winds-Come-Calling lies at the center of the world's greatest city.