Which specific NPC do I want to piss off the least?
You probably don't want to piss off the Amethyst Emperor. His palace assassins will mess you up, and could probably follow you to any planet in the system. He's pretty hard to piss off though, since you'd need to actually be in his court (an erratic and incredibly fast space station) to do so.
Which god should I want to piss off the most?
If you are anything like a cross-section of the OSR community (that is, a no-gods no-kings heathen), you probably want to piss of the Cult of the Golden Nimbus, the resident theocracy of the greenhouse-prarie planet Akron.
What's the worst thing I could meet at a crossroads?
A Salipish Gravatic-Sorcerer, because that probably means your crossroads are about to erupt into space *or* that your crossroads are the property of a Salipish floating-warlord.
What's the nearest thing that can utterly destroy me to your starting town? Or starting town equivalent?
Depends a great deal on what planet you are on. Oredonian sea monsters (and undersea ruin-reactors) for Oredon; the crushing pressure of the dream barrier for Lannit and its moons; Roche-limit asteroids, boiling tidal geysers, and crashing sky-fortesses for Salip; Falling into a predatory plant on Akron; and the aforementioned Assassins in the Amethyst Court.
Is apotheosis open to my character? If not, why not?
Probably not open because there isn't ostensibly any gods. You might be able to do something godlike with the tech in Oredon's ruins, or the ruins in the Reverie Belt, and you could probably get a cult as a dreamer in Lannit, as a warlord on Salip or Kazran, and the Amethyst Court is basically heaven.
Do people in your world have souls? Why?
People have dreaming bodies, and sometimes reincarnate, but there's nothing really seperating the soul from the body and mind. Reincarnation is just people sometimes coming back from the dead with a new body, nothing about your essence inhabiting a different body.
Does jazz exist in your setting yet? Can I invent it and not be stoned to death?
The people of Akron can do some wild things with a bugle and not!cello, but pianos and saxaphones haven't been invented. Really depends on who's the possible stone-thrower.
What's the weirdest country/polity/region/area on your map?
Akron is weirdest in terms of ecosystem (thermosynthetic and carnivorous plants) but is basically a medieval world, Lannit is weirdest in terms of geology (a hollow gas-giant with an internal dream world), Bazran and the Amethyst court are weirdest in terms of diversity of magic and races.
Do guns exist yet? If they do, is there anything making them weird/different?
guns exist but are basically gravititional or magnetic crossbows, flinging sharp bits of metal with no combustion.
Is there a divide between mundane/magical animals?
Great answers! The bugs bunny sent me lol. I want to play in this setting!
ReplyDeleteNice. Are the dreaming bodies represented somehow in the mechanics of your game?
ReplyDeleteIt's more diegetic. When people go to sleep, they wake up on another planet (most usually the center of Lannit, Bazran, or the Amethyst Court). This dreaming body is much the same as the waking body, except the consciousness dwells there less, and so they are more prone to wonder, are easily cowed, and generally submit more to routine. People normally switch which is the "Waking" and the "Dreaming" bodies once or twice in their lifetime, and if one dies the other lives on just fine (this is how people are sometimes reincarnated).
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