AMIA ARCHIVE • View topic - If Amia wasn't of the Forgotten Realms setting...

..What would it be..? or rather, what would you want it to be?

Or is this Off-Topic? Regardless, I'm bored as Hell at my job and I forgot to bring my novel. So I'm going to take it out on the forums.

For me..? hrm.. Planescape, perhaps... I don't really know much about others.

Planescape? Pffft. Hell no.

Eberron. I want Beldor to have a magic rifle, dammit.

I feel like Eberron is a less developed FR with a few new bells and whistles to make it seem a bit distinct. But I don't really know that much.

The Netherese make pistols.

Greyhawk and Ravenloft are nice.

... Azeroth! *Hides*

I'd have to go with Greyhawk or Krynn.
Anything else and I wouldn't be here.

Rosencrantz wrote:

I feel like Eberron is a less developed FR with a few new bells and whistles to make it seem a bit distinct.

Yes, but in Eberron, the bells and whistles are powered by steam and techno-magic! ;P

But now that I think about it, I'd actually prefer Pathfinder. Maybe a mashup of the two.

Definetly:

You got knights.
You got dragons.
You got worthless gold.

Ravenloft is an awesome setting I just -love-, but it does not fit as it is renaissance and most people on amia can not play fear, prejudice or intolerance. Ebberon is just silly and lame with all that silly and lame stuff and Greyhawk for me just does not have any depth. Oh, and Planescape is awesome but it is damn hard to play freak characters and most freak characters I have met just freak me out. :wink:

Yeah, Ravenloft is great, but far too serious for Amia. I agree.

I found Ravenloft kinda one dimensional. Everything's dark and little possibility for other aspects.

Yep. By its very nature it doesn't have the flexibility to serve in nearly as diverse an array of compaigns as Greyhawk or FR. It gives up a lot of the general use for a unique specialization. That's the point of it. I don't think that makes it ill-conceived or whatever.. I still think it's great because it does its job like no other.

Definitely the Harry Potter universe. That would be cooler than cool.

Eberron:

Summoning a Dragon of any color means the dragon may kill you and everyone else in order to keep their secrets safe. Also dragon color means jack and shit there. So summon your silver and watch it turn a town into a skating rink for kicks!

:arrow:

Elves have a thing for undead.

:arrow:

Clerics get spells based on belief instead of some god doling them out.

:arrow:

Giant robots, er, Warforged, wandering the streets like tricked out mini medieval Gundams that think for themselves with names like Cutter, Bolt, and Scout.

:arrow:

People can kill you in your dreams.

:arrow:

Dragon marks give you fun stuff making for creating interesting RP situations full of intrigue.

:arrow:

Halflings rule over Dinotopia.

:arrow:

Artificers make everything better.

Yep. Warforged and mecha are legit outlets in Eberron. In other words, you know it was coming:

These guys

Could be your next door neighbors.

Planescape

pathfinder, even if I don't own the campaign setting book... yet!

Phearnun wrote:

Definetly:

You got knights.
You got dragons.
You got worthless gold.

Seconding. :wink:

Plus, the Conclave of Wizards, towers of High Sorcery, and the moons of magic are awesome. *Sagenod.*

I am not familiar with anything else than forgotten realms tbh.

DustSpray101 wrote:

Dragon marks give you fun stuff making for creating interesting RP situations full of intrigue.

I call dibs on house Cannith

DustSpray101 wrote:

Halflings rule over Dinotopia.

Raptor mounts!

Also eberron has such a while varitiy of things you can play! sooooo many factions power groups and plot twists!

Greyhawk would be decent. Whatever it might have been, for the love of gods, not Eberron. I can't stand that campaign settings. It was like it was designed by 10-year-olds.

"Lady Vol... um. She'll be an elf. NO... an undead elf!"
*yelling from the kitchen* "And a dragon!"
"Yes, that would be totally awesome! An undead elf dragon!"
*yelling from the kitchen* "Don't forget about the robots! You can't have undead elf dragons without robots!"

Planescape or anything low fantasy.

Low fantasy <3.

Eragon! (Inheritance Series) I would die to see dragonriders and actual wonderful elves.

Angel Grove, man! Ai-ya-yai!

What the Moon Brings wrote:

Greyhawk would be decent. Whatever it might have been, for the love of gods, not Eberron. I can't stand that campaign settings. It was like it was designed by 10-year-olds.

"Lady Vol... um. She'll be an elf. NO... an undead elf!"
*yelling from the kitchen* "And a dragon!"
"Yes, that would be totally awesome! An undead elf dragon!"
*yelling from the kitchen* "Don't forget about the robots! You can't have undead elf dragons without robots!"

You're just mad you don't have a robot. -Or- an undead elf dragon lady. ;P

Planescape, obviously. I don't see how anything could compete.

Silvarus wrote:

Planescape or anything low fantasy.

Planescape and low fantasy don't belong in the same sentence.

Anyways, there's no real substitute. The closest feel would be planescape. I don't know enough about other settings to really pick.

TormakSaber wrote:

Silvarus wrote:

Planescape or anything low fantasy.

Planescape and low fantasy don't belong in the same sentence.

Definitely not. Therefore the word or and lack of the word other.

Planescape is my favourite high fantasy setting by far. Most other favourites tend to be low fantasy.

Homebrew.

Dragonlance. It's pretty much FR with a lot less gods, stronger story, and better balanced magic system.

I would say Dragonlance, but I shudder to think what certain parts of this playerbase would do to the RP of Kender...

RuffTuff wrote:

I would say Dragonlance, but I shudder to think what certain parts of this playerbase would do to the RP of Kender...

...Oh gawd...

Pathfinder. Golarion.

It's seperate from WotC, so its safe from heretical changes.

Amia is not FR. It doesn't use FR cosmology.

It is FR with some customisations. Otherwise you're telling me that if I make Elminster a different level, or put a kobold cave where there should be a goblin one I'm no longer FR.

762 wrote:

Amia is not FR. It doesn't use FR cosmology.

We're FR. We are FR because the DMs say so. And as a matter of fact, we do use their cosmology, but the simple fact is that cosmology is not the determinent for whether or not we are a particular setting or not.

Greyhawk or Ravenloft. Both would fit well-ish.

TormakSaber wrote:

762 wrote:

Amia is not FR. It doesn't use FR cosmology.

We're FR. We are FR because the DMs say so. And as a matter of fact, we do use their cosmology, but the simple fact is that cosmology is not the determinent for whether or not we are a particular setting or not.

I asked about this ages ago and got a conflicting answer. So Amia is 100% FR cosmology, i.e. the tree?

If Amia wasn't as it is now... I likely wouldn't still play here.

Also Amia is Forgotten Realms setting + some homebrewn stuff like the snow-elves.. no?

762 wrote:

TormakSaber wrote:

762 wrote:

Amia is not FR. It doesn't use FR cosmology.

We're FR. We are FR because the DMs say so. And as a matter of fact, we do use their cosmology, but the simple fact is that cosmology is not the determinant for whether or not we are a particular setting or not.

I asked about this ages ago and got a conflicting answer. So Amia is 100% FR cosmology, i.e. the tree?

With the addition of Sigil iirc.

762 wrote:

TormakSaber wrote:

762 wrote:

Amia is not FR. It doesn't use FR cosmology.

We're FR. We are FR because the DMs say so. And as a matter of fact, we do use their cosmology, but the simple fact is that cosmology is not the determinent for whether or not we are a particular setting or not.

I asked about this ages ago and got a conflicting answer. So Amia is 100% FR cosmology, i.e. the tree?

I suppose I sohuld have clarified, yus.

We use FR cosmology to an extent, seeded within the great Wheel cosmos. So Brightwater exists as a part of Arboria. The House of the Triad is situated in the Seven Mounting Heavens of Celestia. Loviatar and Bane's domain is part of an appropriate layer of Hell and a godly domain unto itself. Oghma and God probably make their home on Mechanus. Silvanus is situated in the Beastlands.

We do use the cosmology, we simply seed it within the cosmos that most DnD players tend to be more familiar with. So if you refer to a FR place ICly, no one will thikn you're odd. You're perfectly correct. You're just referring to an area within that specific plane.

ShadowSoul89 wrote:

... Azeroth! *Hides*

Warhammer Fantasy!

Everyone (should) hate everyone, humans are bastards, you can't argue with elves, and everything is basically out to kill you.

Would be fun. =D

HellScourge wrote:

Everyone (should) hate everyone, humans are bastards, you can't argue with elves, and everything is basically out to kill you.

...How is this different from standard Amia? =P

How awesome wouldn't it be if a group of players requested to play Azuposi from Maztica? Just to show how insanely alien you can be without going into the depths of Toril or another plane.

Spelljammer!

*Flee's from Tormak*

HellScourge wrote:

Warhammer Fantasy

<3

RuffTuff wrote:

HellScourge wrote:

Everyone (should) hate everyone, humans are bastards, you can't argue with elves, and everything is basically out to kill you.

...How is this different from standard Amia? =P

Its not happening

That is the difference!

Selvec Darkon wrote:

Spelljammer!

*Flee's from Tormak*

Spelljammer, hell yeah!

I'm with Yoss on this one; Homebrew. Use your minds, why imitate when you can innovate?

Why make up when you can research, why imagine when you can explore? :wink:

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