From out of the dark and forbidding heavens a great meteor, black as night itself, carved through Abaddon’s atmosphere , calved into massive sections and rained down upon the world in great shards. It obliterated cities, shattered the living rock, sent tidal waves swamping over islands and drowning the coasts, ignited volcanoes and set the ground quaking for more than a year. Over 85% of the sentient population of Abaddon was killed in moments and no sorcery, no prayer, no force of arms nor cunning with the builder’s craft could stand against the destruction. Those who survived found themselves in the ruins of civilization, surrounded by the corpses of their nations, overwhelmed by death and living beneath a sootblack sky. Their suffering did not end there.
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I've been following along with the OT Races previews, but this World of OT preview ties those together and I finally feel like I get the flavor and intent of the setting now. And I'm really diggin' what I see - which includes the spectacular artwork and layout! :)
ReplyDeleteI notice that psionics play a big part in OT. Since there are no "official" Pathfinder psionics rules yet, how do you intend to address this? Will you do something "in house", like a Spirit Book/Spirit Knife sourcebook?
Also, as a constructive criticism, I think the text could use another editorial pass. There are a bunch of dropped apostrophes in World of OT (which makes me think it might be a layout copy/paste issue rather than a grammatical one), and some of the sentences need a few commas here and there. All in all, it's still comprehensible, and looks like a really cool setting. You can see that Ravenloft and Dark Sun were the inspirations for this setting, but there is a lot more originality going on here.
All said, I think I'm hooked! I'll be picking up the Races book and the Fallen NPCs ASAP. Looking forward to seeing more!
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jaerdaph