4. The drows have won. The sky is magically clouded and the sun barely glows beyond the haze. Other races live as slaves or IN vassal realms. PCs can be from pockets of resistance.
Despite their power, the drows have too many slaves and subordinates to monitor low level PCs. As the PCs gain levels, drow "government" becomes more of a central theme, playing for or against this or that house.
5. The world has shattered in thousands of free-floating blocks of earth and rock. This is a post, post-apocalyptic setting. There are remnants of the past when the world was whole, but civilization has grown back and is now stable. Small and large flying crafts/mounts are common fare for goods and voyagers. Now part of this stability is failing in the outer-rims of the civilised world, earthbergs are disintegrating and falling, and the heroes must find out what's going on.
6. Hidden Demiplanes keep colliding with this plane. So far, only benign creatures and Humanoids have arrived from the Demiplanes, but it is only a matter of time before Evil humanoids or outsiders collide, and upset the balance of power. The heroes must find out what is happening before that happens and see if they can stop it.
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7. The military order you belong to has long been the pride of the nation, until a conflict arose between your leader and the king, leaving the king dead and your leader executed for treason. Now the kingdom is torn in civil war, as your order fights for survival and seeks to fulfill your leader's dying ambition to claim the crown, and the king's knights who seek to avenge him and protect the people from the rebellious order. You must decide where your loyalties lie. Do you stand with your brothers to gain redemption through victory by taking the throne for the order? Or do you abandon the treachery the order has resorted to and fight to reunite the land with the loyalists?
8. The undead horde has intelligence now. Lead by liches and vampires as the generals, they wage war against the followers of the gods. Their goal is to kill the gods by killing their worshipers. Later you find out that the undead horde just wants to be laid to rest, and prevent any other undead from being brought into existence. They belive by eliminating the gods they can achieve this. Who do you side with? Do you fight the leigons of undead, or do you side with them to aid them in there quest to be laid to rest, or do you try to find an alternative way to prevent the dead from coming back?
9. Your party all assembled in answer to urgent call for their help. The arrive at the right place and time, each having played their journeys one on one with the gm ahead of time. When they arrive to find nothing they are gathered in a protective orb, all that is good is destroyed outside the orb, destroyed or removed to else where.
All that is left is most of it, the neutral, mundane, the evil, broken and twisted dysfunctional and distorted, a small minority, but now without the massive goodness to balance it out. There is a simple command to remake the world with the gathering of the elements, there are rules for what cannot be done until that element is gathered, they have an open-ended and overwhelming task, most are where the map says but on set days certain items will be found and moved, by those seeking to misuse them, or simply folks looking to meet their everyday needs with the elements represented in mundane in some cases, and marvellous in others, the have a map that shows each objects starting position, and its releasing conditions . What would a world with an ordinary amount of evil, and no amount of good except our heroes, in a mundane neutral world?
Will evil long for the missing good? Will the neutrals slide over a little to keep the alignment boat from tipping? How do our main characters stay on task, stay good, and keep their mission secret. What happens when the map is stolen? What if one of them is a spy for evil? What order to they tackle finding the forty two elements?
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14: It has been 20 years since the time of the Wilding; the forests and wild places of man's domain have revolted consuming much of civilization. The city of inderwick limps on through high magics, but now that the land is stable once more many are eager to reclaim what they have lost and seek out new places beyond.
Unfortunately the Wilding also awoke many of the old threats. Wicked tales your mothers used to haunt your dreams; dreadful fey hunting children in the forests, unquiet dead disturbed by the tumultuous growth, witches and hags and horrors from the depths of time.
The party may have been assembled for any number of reasons, to deal with any number of threats. This sandbox campaign is a dark fairy tale world less about conquering the wild so much as it is about surviving it. One specific threat can be the fey; a common nuisance of the city even before the Wilding, now the emboldened scions of chaos seek to finish what wild began. A conclave in service to one of the Eldest has arrived and fresh signs of their revels are everywhere throughout the Gnarl (the new tangled forest outside the city). The PCs' first mission may be to attempt to make contact with the court and deal with these marauders.
14: It has been 20 years since the time of the Wilding; the forests and wild places of man's domain have revolted consuming much of civilization. The city of inderwick limps on through high magics, but now that the land is stable once more many are eager to reclaim what they have lost and seek out new places beyond.
Unfortunately the Wilding also awoke many of the old threats. Wicked tales your mothers used to haunt your dreams; dreadful fey hunting children in the forests, unquiet dead disturbed by the tumultuous growth, witches and hags and horrors from the depths of time.
hey, I like that one!