As always, the full series can be found here. Earlier in this series, I mentioned that the second major component of D&D cosmology is other planes – worlds that exist in parallel to and overlap with each other. The 5e baseline assumes over two dozen of them, which is a […]
Setting Design Report
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As always, the full list of posts in this series can be found here. In the last post of this series, I promised I’d spend some time explaining how clerics and paladins in the setting are different from the D&D norm, so I figured I’d get that in before I […]
A list of all of the posts in this series can be found here. Wellsprings of Power One of the biggest challenges in designing a setting that’s explicitly monotheistic rather than a dualistic setting or one with a pantheon for a system like D&D 5e is “how do you explain […]
As always, the full series can be found here. Over the last three posts, I’ve been working my way through the various broad classifications of area in my setting; the untamed areas known as The Wilds, the peaceful bastions of benign civilization known as The Counties, and now it’s time […]
As always, the full series can be found here. This post is the third part in what’s likely to be a four-part sub-series on the playable races of the setting. As with last post, this focuses on one of the specific categories of area found in the campaign world. Like […]
As always, the full series can be found here. As I work through the playable races in the setting, I’ll be grouping them by where they are most likely to be found. In the last post, I covered the PHB races (minus Halflings and Drow, which won’t appear in the […]
As always, you can find all of the posts in this series here. Who lives here? So far in this series, I’ve covered the moral universe and technology. Now I think it’s time to start discussing PC races, because that will inform a lot of the rest of the setting. […]
As always, you can find the entirety of this series here. Looking Good Fashion is an often-overlooked part of setting design, and in truth, I went back and forth as to whether to cover it at all in here. I ultimately decided to, because certain clothing technologies can be surprisingly […]
A couple of quick notes: since reception has been good and my co-hosts have been supportive, this series may be the bulk of content on the blog for a while; the ideas haven’t been slowing down at all, and I feel like I may as well strike while the iron […]
It occurred to me that as I’ll soon be getting into more mechanical aspects of the setting, it’d probably be good to share a list of the books I’m using. This post will be updated as necessary, and while it’s dry to just have a list hanging out like this, […]
Just when I thought I was done thinking about the moral universe of this setting, I ran into the music video for Light Me Up by Kobra and the Lotus and watching that, I realized I had a few last details I wanted to cover before moving on. (There’s a […]
A quick note: especially observant readers of the blog may notice that the title of this sub-series has been changed and that change has been populated backward to the last couple of entries. The URLs have been left untouched, but I think “Moral Universe” more accurately captures the essence of […]