Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Welcome to Isorropia

So I haven't been posting for a long time. Life has been taking up too much of my time for modding for a while now. Also I realized that while I have what I feel like are good ideas for an interesting new fantasy world, many things are undefined and the places I have been creating where just invented as I was working in the toolset. So over the summer and fall I stepped back and have worked on simply designing the world where my campaign will take place.
First of all my world didn't have a name. Now it does. Isorropia. I also decided that using the forgotten realms pantheon of gods just didn't fit in the story I have in mind so right now I am working on creating a completely new system of deities. Isorropia while isolated from the planes now was not always in the past. At some point in the past the creator of Isorropia was punished by some greater power and the walls between it and the other existences broke down allowing, though not always by choice, beings from other worlds to enter Isorropia. The nature and hierarchy of the deities and other greater beings will be one of the themes explore in this campaign.
Before beginning designing any more areas in the tool set I want at least have a rough design of each area and its place in the world on paper. I am now working on actually drawing out the world map which once done I will either redo or scan in to the computer. I haven't really thrown out anything I made before but when I look at the first areas I made now I see so many ways to improve them that its easier to make new ones so I suspect in the end I will redo most of what I have done so far except for the the custom history books that don't mention deities.
Since this campaign will be starting at low levels, probably 1st or 2nd, there will be many lower level enemies to fight but I don't want to just send you hunting kobolds on your neighbors farm so I am trying to create some lower level villains who have their own plots for you to thwart along the path of the main story that may not be really connected to the main "enemy". It will be like side quest that also have their own small arcs in the story. I have several of these created already and will post some screenshots when I get back to my computer.
So that what I have been up to. I plan on being more frequent with posts from now on.