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The world of Athas is a post apocalyptic setting. Most of the world's vegetation and water have been destroyed by excessive use of arcane magic. The land is now stripped, barren, and harsh. Kingdoms have dissolved into feuding city-states. Each city-state is protection by god-like sorcerer-king.
Most arcane casters are called defilers. Any casting by a defiler turns nearby plants to ash, boils water, and sterilizes the soil.
Metal and water on Athas are incredibly scarce. Sorcerer-kings devote great resources and manpower to protecting their wells and oases.
There are no deities in Athas. The gods abandoned the world during the decline of its green age. Most people worship of pay lip service to their rulers. A few clerics draw power from the raw elemental planes. Druids are the most stalwart defenders of nature.
The races of Athas are different as a result of the harsh environment. Traditionally, all player races have higher bonuses to their starting attributes and start at 3rd level to reflect their harsh upbringing. All people must be ready to fight in order to protect their villages from marauding elves, giants or worse desert horrors. All racial also have inherent psionic abilities and start with a wild talent.
There is a caste system made up of the templars who serve the sorcerer-kings, the nobility, freemen, merchants and slaves. Characters can be of any class, and even the highest ranking templar can be sold into slavery for their mistakes.
It is rare for one to place ideals such as honor, justice and selflessness above their day to day survival, but heroes can be found. Deeds can be as small as helping slaves escape to a free village and defending an oasis from cannibalistic haflings to searching ruins for relics of the green age or assassinating an influential noble.
We're ready to start playtesting ROAD TRIP, an awesome Monsters and
Other Childish Things campaign by Ross Payton.
In Road Trip, a group of kids and their horrible monsters hit the road
for a summer full of adventure, excitement, new sights, and desperate
attempts to thwart the plans of a terrifying (even by their standards)
evil from beyond time and space. Road Trip is the first full-length
adventure campaign for Monsters and Other Childish Things, featuring
seven scenarios that can be played in (mostly) any order as the kids
and monsters come closer and closer to the deadly "Ur-Monster" that
threatens them all, plus two bonus adventures. All that plus
guidelines for building new roadside encounters and new rules for
Homesickness, where the kids gradually learn resilience and
self-confidence with such long distance from the things they know and
love.
We really won't have time for outside playtest groups to run through
the entire campaign from beginning to end, so we're looking for
playtesters who can handle three or four game sessions over then next
few weeks. If that's you, please send word to shane.ivey@gmail.com.
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Shane Ivey
Arc Dream Publishing
www.arcdream.com
