Let’s collaborate on the setting together. From there we can start delegating rooms and zones to those who want to contribute. Here’s the ideas so far.
Personally I think using the hub and the large network of tunnels would allow us to explore any of the following ideas and more. Basically it’s a two step process–1. we develop the pit and 2. we develop the areas that the pit leads to.
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maybe a hub-style setting concept, kinda like planescape? I was kinda mulling this idea around of an insanely large network of tunnels, or catacombs, entered through a giant pit of course, that has many unexplored exits that could pop you out into practically any setting. This could give us a lot of freedom for in-and-out setting ideas, or we can approach it as if the zine is the explorers, delving down these unexplored paths and documenting what they find. Existing OSR settings could simply add the Pit to their world to start incorporating our zine.
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What about some sort of Norse-inspired setting. Freezing tundras, all manner of huge beast coupled with mythic monsters. Viking raiders. Small villages. Explorations to find new sources of food. Savage cultures. A Norse-inspired setting with some sort of twist would be my vote for the theme of a potential adventuring locale
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Fantasy
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sword & planet
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weird fantasy
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horror fantasy
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DarkSoulsian grimscape
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Sword & Planet He-Man silliness
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Cheap 70s barbarian fantasy
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what about a big fantasy mining corp that’s delving into The Pit, robbing its riches while the native population/workers get used? So the PCs could fill a role either helping the big corp or helping the people. (I do recognise the White Saviour theme emerging here, but we could work on that…) Maybe The Pit is mining something weird, like the brains of an elder god, triggering psychic visions, or it’s a big pit of living meat, being mined for food. Sorry, got stuck on the mining aspect, but that’s what a lot of pits result from, right?
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How about we make a random table with a bunch of community produced ideas/phrases (multiple columns), and have people roll some prompts from that? Just as a brainstorming method…
There were two discussions here about standards, one for monsters and one for wealth , we could start working from there.