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Good point. I've been going with the sort of assumption that these gods would have the mentality of normal humans. But at the very least these would be beings with no family, no childhood, and no real ingrained relationship with humans except for how they personally chose to interact. So even...

Yeah, I especially like the idea of a god that just wants to be left alone for some reason or another. And one issue with all of these scenarios is that no one really knows how a person's mind would warp with extreme power and immortality. I mean, the gut instinct seems to be to assume that...

Good ideas so far, everyone. Yeah, very interesting ideas. I'd been thinking of things like competitive gods who want to expand their influence and control, using certain loopholes in this universe but also gods who have close pen-pal style friendships with one another. In my imagining...

I don't know much about Ravenloft, but I will admit that I was heavily influenced by the Planescape setting from when I played Planescape: Torment. The Metropolis A massive, empty city. The only rules that the local deity enforces are strict laws regarding land ownership, and an ironclad...

Good question. I didn't want to get far into the smaller details in the first post - I was worried that a textwall might turn people off. But no, you do not need to be worshiped by anyone. Some of the benefits / limitations / specifics to your newfound godhood are: Your default powers are...

I have a setting I'm trying to plan out, and I thought that maybe some extra sets of eyes might be helpful. The quick explanation of this setting is that it is a collection of countless small, self-contained worlds. Each world was originally designed by a single god-like being who now...

My understanding is that societies in the Americas simply hadn't learned to smelt yet. With the exception of the Incas who knew how to smelt bronze. I'm pretty sure that resources weren't a problem since I think I've heard of Native Americans using hematite. And I'm pretty sure climate wasn't...

Mind: And more to the point, you were just literally quoting verbatim several posts from the thread this topic sprung out of. Posts which several people, including myself, have already had discussion that went something like "some terms like 'primitive cultures' come off as really offensive to...

Yeah, I agree. The setting I'm trying to set up in this thread will probably end up being on the Caribbean. Specifically the French colony of Saint-Domingue (modern day Haiti). My thought was that the type of society I was imagining would end up with a tiny group of elite nobles controlling a...

Oh, thank you for the warm welcome everyone!

All things considered, I think those numbers probably should be the most common ones. If a week's excessively long or short it would seem kind of weird, and I'm not sure there'd be any point to having named days in the first place. So if I had to guess I'd say that it makes the most sense to...

Good to know, I'll check it out. Although I don't think that should prevent others from using a similar idea. Also, it seems like the system in those stories is designed with limitations to prevent really insane things from happening. For instance (according to Wikipedia), in those stories a...

Faeries, Pixies, and other small fluttery female creatures.

Yeah, I don't want to go off on a tangent (even though I'm about to), but anything involving time in a fantasy setting always starts to drive me nuts. For instance, I think everyone's gut instinct is to base a fantasy calendar after Earth's calendar. But I've had settings locked in perpetual...

B.S.A.: Well, that's an argument. As a counterpoint I might say that in governments like you described also have to deal with issues like deadlock, and again citizens may be misled and misinformed or they may just not vote at all, etc etc. But whatever, I don't feel very strongly about this...