Vote Up A Campaign Setting 2 (Now in Open Discussion)

[afroakuma]

Votes tallied through Drogorn.

[Lyndworm]

Garden World



Because I like Jungle Goblins, that's why. That and druids. And carnivorous plants. And super-tall trees that blot out the sun and turn the jungle floor into the Underdark.

[Othniel Edden]

Garden World



Because I like Jungle Goblins, that's why. That and druids. And carnivorous plants. And super-tall trees that blot out the sun and turn the jungle floor into the Underdark.

And it doesn't just have to apply to jungles, there really can be lots of diverse climates all teeming with life.

[Recherché]

If its not too late then I cast my vote with cliff world

[Gaia, mother of earth]

I'd like to cast a vote for Garden World, thanks. :)

[Comet]

Garden World, please. Because cliff world is dragging behind in votes so I might as well be climbing giant trees. Because climbing stuff is awesome.

[afroakuma]

Alright, we've hit the deadline for Setting and... we have a tie.

Except no ties allowed.

I don't care what wins; I don't care if you all make a mass exodus to Ice World or what happens. All I'm saying is: voting has been extended for fifteen minutes. What happens in that time will decide the Setting poll.

[Chainsaw Hobbit]

Why can't we just do a giant space-garden?

[KotserB]

Garen World!!!

[Morph Bark]

Why can't we just do a giant space-garden?

Personally, that's why I voted for Space. You can always have stuff on planets if you like that resemble the other ideas.

Plus I've always got grand ideas for races, and with Space you have greater option in background stories, unique abilities and culture flavour.

Plus, we could invent various space storms like they have in Sandstorm, Stormwrack and Frostburn.

[The Dark Fiddler]

Personally, that's why I voted for Space. You can always have stuff on planets if you like that resemble the other ideas.

I almost did, but then I realized that Space would be a whole lot of extra work for the build team, or everything would end up with less work put into it individually.

[afroakuma]

In eight minutes the poll closes!

[Chainsaw Hobbit]

I almost did, but then I realized that Space would be a whole lot of extra work for the build team, or everything would end up with less work put into it individually.

Good point. I also don't want a Spelljammer clone.

[Morph Bark]

I almost did, but then I realized that Space would be a whole lot of extra work for the build team, or everything would end up with less work put into it individually.

Eh, Campaign Settings are a lot of work anyway. No matter which is picked, it won't make it easy for those on the build team. Besides, those who applied knew what they were getting into.


EDIT: I also find it baffling that I gave the link to my players after seeing the deadly shift to 15 minutes more and then the ONLY one of them that has an account turns out to also be the only one who hates Space.

[afroakuma]

Five minutes left!

And come on, give us some confidence here; we can do Space without being a Spelljammer clone.

[ragingrage]

I would like to change from Sky World to Garden World

[afroakuma]

Time.

And the result is: Garden World

[Morph Bark]

/starts thinking up how to insert Predators into the jungle

[Lord_Gareth]

Congratulations to you, Garden World. We'll try to treat you right.

*Begins taking out the horrific implements of torture*

Of course, the work may hurt a little.

[Chainsaw Hobbit]

WooHoo! Garden world!

[afroakuma]

Alright folks, time to move on to the next portion: we need you to vote on the setting's overarching Theme. Options are listed in the first post again.

[ragingrage]

Genesis sound's interesting.

[Alchemistmerlin]

Oh poo. Well guess we're stuck with it now.

Noir

[Drogorn]

Survival in a world that seems determined to wipe out humanoid life sounds interesting.

[Scarlet Tropix]

In my opinion, the most interesting option in a world full of exotic and outright magical life is Exploration.

[Morph Bark]

Let's see which ones sound interesting... Eye of the Storm, Genesis, Heroic, Noir and Savage.

Survival is boring. Horror is hard to pull off right and overdone. The others even moreso so they are cliché.

I'm picturing a world that is constantly being made and remade every so often in a cycle of perpetual Creation and Destruction that knows a calm period every so often before the gears start churning again. A Primal god who lords over technological advance actually literally setting gears into working to twist the land and make the lands shift locations relative to one another, twist up new mountains, and so forth, with few constants. Lesser gods lording over small tribes of people in secret, twisting their essence to make unique races, split off from one primal "base" race.

As such, because the description of it seems closest to that idea, I'm going for Genesis.

[Hiro Protagonest]

I vote for exploration. In the middle of the jungles and forests, you find ancient ruins filled with traps and golems. In the tops of the trees, you find an amazing canopy, which you can easily walk on with some jumps for the farther spaced trees.

[The Dark Fiddler]

I'm torn. I'd probably vote for exploration, had a different setting won (which is weird cause I was practically begging for exploration and I also did everything I could to make garden world win...), but as-is I'm still pretty torn. Eye of the storm could be fun, but I think in this garden world, an ongoing apocalypse won't have quite the same impact (which actually makes post-apocalyptic a really fitting choice because after civilization falls, all this "nature" stuff would totally happen). Frontier, savage, and survival also seem like natural choices for this world... but in the end, I think I'm gonna have to go with genesis... particularly since that could easily include those other three I just mentioned

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I'm picturing a world that is constantly being made and remade every so often in a cycle of perpetual Creation and Destruction that knows a calm period every so often before the gears start churning again. A Primal god who lords over technological advance actually literally setting gears into working to twist the land and make the lands shift locations relative to one another, twist up new mountains, and so forth, with few constants. Lesser gods lording over small tribes of people in secret, twisting their essence to make unique races, split off from one primal "base" race.

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[Rainbow Servant]

I'll order the Garden Salad in a Noir dressing, please.

[bryn0528]

Man oh man... I'm going to have to go with Noir. I'm not sure if it would exactly work out in Gardenworld, but then again, I don't think it's been done before either.