Isaac/Setting the Stage podcast
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Isaac/Setting the Stage podcast
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I'm Isaac, the host of the Setting the Stage podcast that interviews different GMs about their campaign settings for D&D and other RPGs. https://gocorral.com/sts/
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For me, mithral is the big one. The dwarves and dark elves are always fighting over it.
What special resources do people fight to control in your campaign world?
Anything! Mithral, adamantine, oil, dilithium crystals, whatever it is!
#dnd #rpg
Social power is what you'd expect. This gets more interesting for orcs. If an orc dies and gets resurrected they're considered free from their oaths. So a resurrected orc would be free to walk away from their marriage, their liege lord, etc. Or they have to redo all those oaths and vows.
For me, some monsters like vampires are bound by their oaths. They can't willingly break an oath so they make weasely promises. And the gods can occasionally enforce oaths for important people with divine retribution.
What magical or social power do oaths and vows hold in your campaign world?
#dnd #rpg
Cool! Sounds kind of Buddhist to me. Like prayer flags.
He's Kruk-Ma-Kali, a fearsome hobgoblin general who used his psionic powers in secret to unify his army. He then pillaged half of the main region my campaign world is set in.
For me, I put a school for psions in the desert mountains. I was founded by a prophetic elf psion hundreds of years ago. The temple has trained many psions over the years including my world's equivalent of Alexander the Great.
What's an interesting remote temple in your campaign world?
Something like the Shaolin temple or a monastery on an island.
#DnD #RPG #temple
I rolled the stats for the wagon's mental scores and it bombed. So they received a very stupid, sentient wagon. It was dubbed Stevie the Wonder Wagon. Stevie remains a minor NPC in the campaign world going forward. He's since become a barbarian and knows how to rage with four greatswords.
For me it's Stevie the Wonder Wagon. The responsible one among my players was absent for a session so the rest of them decided to pool their money and fund the creation of a sentient, adamantine wagon construct. The wagon has a face to speak with on the front and four arms off the side of the front.
What technology have you invented for your RPG world? Magical, mechanical, or otherwise?
#dnd #rpg #tech
What are ELVES like in your RPG campaign world? In my campaign world they're the traditional forest dwellers. They also had a civil war where one side supported a Draconic Hegemony over the world because dragons are the best. The other side liked freedom.
#dnd #rpg #elf