Your Votes Will Create This World!!!!

[Conman the Bardbarian]

I'll go with 5 because there's no way I'll be the 12th man for 1.

[mcherm]

I'm voting for #9.

[Domestichauscat]

10

[Craig Bonham 141]

Farael the Fallen wrote:

1. It is a fantastic world created from a dream by an unknown god, where dreams, fantasies, and nightmares come true.

Unleash the crazy!

[Detect Magic]

Farael the Fallen wrote:

To all who voted I want to create characters in the game based on your names. For example, my name (Farael the Fallen) could be a very cool, mysterious, dark character.

My name's gonna be hard, in that case.

[Orthos]

I took my name from 3.5's Tome of Magic <_<

[Scintillae]

#9 sounds neat!

[Tacticslion]

Orthos wrote:

I took my name from 3.5's Tome of Magic <_<

Mine's an obscure reference to a 90's tactical RPG.

And it's not Tactics Ogre.
(That should narrow it down to exactly one other game, maybe?)

So, uh, feel free to take inspiration from my profile instead, if you prefer.

[Laveral]

I vote #2. An Apocalyptic broken planet in the distant future sounds fun.

[Farael the Fallen]

So far the voting is:

#1-12 votes
#2-8 votes
#3-4 votes
#4-1 vote
#5-3 votes
#8-1 vote
#9-3 votes
#10-3 votes

As we wind down round 1 and head into round 2, I can see #1 probably winning, with #2 a close second. As I wrote before, there can easily be a broken, apocalyptic region of this world, since that is the essence of a nightmare.

To those who feel that their profile names (like Detect Magic and Tacticslion) wouldn't make good character names, we can always improvise...

[Tacticslion]

"Hashmalum" might be an excellent stand-in name...
...
...
... not that that actually has anything to do with where my name came from. Nope. Not a thing.

>.>
<.<
(Whew, looks like he bought it!)

I could see my actual username being something like an earned or granted title, however, even a unique one, based off of some tactical genius' glorious victories or something.
("The ferocity of a lion, and a tactical genius to boot!" or somesuch.)

I also kind of thought Detect Magic was joking.

[Indagare]

Detect Magic wrote:

My name's gonna be hard, in that case.

You could be Magus Reperio.

Farael the Fallen wrote:

I am surprised there is no love for #6 and #7...lol

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6. It is a lost world where magic and miracles have run wild and the gods have long abandoned their people, who are seeking a Savior to save them.

This seems a bit odd. What the Savior would need to save them from, given that both magic and miracles are common?

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7. It is a fantasy, medieval style world with magical creatures, races, gods, miracles, and mysterious dungeons.

This is too much like every fantasy setting ever.

[Detect Magic]

How'd you get "Magus Reperio"? Latin or something? It's not bad.

[Indagare]

Detect Magic wrote:

How'd you get "Magus Reperio"? Latin or something? It's not bad.

Thanks! It is indeed Latin. "Magus" is "Magic" while "Reperio" means "find, discover, find out, invent, hit, detect".

[Tempestorm]

Ok, voting for #9. I like the idea of a world so full of magic that everyone who is anyone can do it... except for those poor pitiful spell less.

Though it does appear #1 is going to win. Which I am ok with as that sparked ideas as well.

[Sigil]

Numbah 5! Lucky numbah 5!

[Mudfoot]

Indagare wrote:

Detect Magic wrote:

How'd you get "Magus Reperio"? Latin or something? It's not bad.

Thanks! It is indeed Latin. "Magus" is "Magic" while "Reperio" means "find, discover, find out, invent, hit, detect".

Reperi Magum. You certainly want the accusative, and quite probably the singular imperative. Or possibly the infinitive (reperire).

Actually, I'd translate it as Detege Magicum. Reperi Magum better equates to "Meet a wizard".

[friluftshund]

Mudfoot wrote:

Reperi Magum better equates to "Meet a wizard".

An excellent name for the inn where all the wizards convene after an arduous day of studies in the tower

[Korthis]

someone wrote:

Xamanthe

Some of these sound very generic (including #1 - how would you be able to tell the difference between this world and any other?)

You are looking to close, back away from it and look again. a dream world could be anything.

A world where everything is made of paint (what dreams may come), a world of continual darkness or scorched desert world (pitch black), a world where everything only exists for 8 hours and is remade every day with only the PC's knowing that it's happening(groundhog day).
The fact that it's so open ended is what makes it fun.

[Scintillae]

Indagare wrote:

Detect Magic wrote:

How'd you get "Magus Reperio"? Latin or something? It's not bad.

Thanks! It is indeed Latin. "Magus" is "Magic" while "Reperio" means "find, discover, find out, invent, hit, detect".

Latin makes just about everything sound neat. Mine's basically Sparky.

[link41020]

I vote 9!

[Goth Guru]

10. Please consider savage mage as s class. Goth Guru would be great as an NPC ritual master, or a blood mage.

[Farael the Fallen]

So far the voting is:

#1-12 votes
#2-8 votes
#3-4 votes
#4-1 vote
#5-4 votes
#8-1 vote
#9-5 votes
#10-4 votes

Unless something drastic changes overnight, it looks like #1 will win Round 1, and #2 will come in second. It will be the Dreamworld. How it takes shape is up to you. I will set up round 2 where your votes count, and I just vote in case of a tie (but that could be good too). However, for each round I will also ask for contributions. Anything you want to contribute during the round. I will set up a file and stick it in.

What I am looking to set up the rounds for is the stuff that needs to be figured out. How many gods? How many planets in the solar system? How many moons? How long is the year and days of the week? What are the names of the month and days of the week? What event started the calendar that most folks follow? Stuff like that. As we go through this process all of that will be fleshed out, but make no mistake it won't be perfect! That is okay. Nothing is perfect. In fact, imperfection would work better anyway with dreams.

First contribution/question, will Morpheus find his way into this world? lol

[Indagare]

Well, it's possible Morpheus manifests as the other deities (Morpheus was the Oneiroi of human/humanoid shapes). I don't think Morpheus should find his way into the world in a direct way, since it could lead to wakening, but it could be there are ways to involve Morpheus through various items (becoming Phantasos - the Oneiroi of inanimate items) or creatures (becoming Icelus - the Oneiroi of creatures and animals). You could have Morpheus become Phobetor (also called Icelus, bur could be separate) as the nightmare form of Morpheus. The Cult of the Wakened could be trying to figure out how to involve Morpheus in hopes that he'll waken.

I once tried to start my own world but it didn't go very far. The categories I placed there might be helpful here, though.

Well, there's also the possibilities of multiple suns. Not to mention the fact that it's entirely possible for the system to be geocentric or have completely odd dream-logic when it comes to things (the imperfect world you mentioned).

The world itself could he oddly shaped - it could be a giant tree or have demiplane after demiplane connected to one another.

[Beemer]

I vote #10 as Barbarians are my favorite class and how can you get more savage than that.

[Arakhor]

2 is Might & Magic VI/VII and 3 is Dark Sun, but 5 sounds cool. I once tried to design a world with a heavy elemental focus, so I'm probably biased. :)

[Detect Magic]

Morpheus?

[rainzax]

hybrid 1 + 3 + some of 4

self-induced dehydration causes psychosomatic mirage 'halluciniarae' which may cause ley distortion which may in turn attract transitive planar traffic...

[Goth Guru]

Dreamers appear for varying periods of relative time. They create things both good and terrifying. They can create entire hexes at the edge of the map. If one reaches zero or less hits, they vanish as they wake up.

[Baron Ulfhamr]

Farael the Fallen wrote:

To all who voted I want to create characters in the game based on your names.

Baron Ulfhamr should be a lycanthropic would-be hero, like me!

This is cool- looking forward to round 2!

[Bardess]

My character is going to be a little boring. :( Unless she is an immortal Bard who lives through the epochs of the world to register its story... Maybe she comes from "out there", and is "psychanalizing" the Dream.
Morpheus could be not a god. Maybe his/her dreams have been made reality by the encounter with some mysterious force, and he/she doesn't even know. Maybe the world has periodical "blackouts" when Morpheus' awake, and fears that...

[Farael the Fallen]

The final voting for Round 1 is:

#1-13 votes
#2-8 votes
#3-4 votes
#4-1 vote
#5-5 votes
#8-1 vote
#9-5 votes
#10-5 votes

#1 is the winner! The winning hook is, "It is a fantastic world created from a dream by an unknown god, where dreams, fantasies, and nightmares come true."

Coming in second place is #2, "It is an apocalyptic world in the distant future of a broken planet, where magic has replaced technology and the races struggle to survive in a chaotic environment."

OK, allow me to post this winning result, then use another post to start Round 2. Very good so far...

[Farael the Fallen]

Round 2: The Sun/Star and the Moons?

How many other planets in the Solar System?
0. zero (its the only planet circling this Sun/Star)
1. 1 planet
2. 2 planets
3. 3 planets
4. 4 planets
5. 5 planets
6. 6 planets
7. 7 planets
8. 8 planets
9. 9 planets
10. 10 or more planets

How many moons?
0. zero moons (if you guys pick #0, then we will have to deal with the various moon spells, just saying)
1. 1 moon
2. 2 moons
3. 3 moons
4. 4 moons
5. 5 moons
6. 6 moons
7. 7 moons
8. 8 moons
9. 9 moons
10. 10 or more moons

Notes: I have made the assumption that this Dreamworld looks and feels like a real world, so I need to find out about other planets and of course the moon(s), if there are any. There are worlds without moons. The Sun need not be called "The Sun", but that would avoid confusion. My feeling is that this world is affected by the dreams of Earth, and I also feel that the "Dreaming God" is probably from Earth, but these are just feelings on my part.

Of course, since this world is made from a dream, real world physics need not necessarily apply to it. I will keep this open for up to a week. I will end Round 2 once voting stops, up until Monday (or Moonday). OK, let the voting begin and please start contributing too I will...

[Detect Magic]

How many other planets in the Solar System? In keeping with the idea that the "Dreaming God" is from Earth, let's say eight--one for each other planet in our solar system, plus one... a mysterious "dark planet", as per Nibiru. The mass hysteria/panic regarding "Planet X", could perhaps, color this dream world in such a way as to actually materialize Earth's shadowy double.

How many moons? Just one.

[Bardess]

Three planets and nine moons!

[Nathan Nasif]

Zero planets and three moons.

[Orthos]

Zero planets but ... let's say five moons. And the moons are planet-like themselves, and potentially habitable.

[Arakhor]

I'd say that the planets and moons represent the greater and lesser cosmic beings who guide the world's destiny, with the Sun as the representation of the Dreaming God himself. Thus, four planets and six moons, say.

To take a cue from Orthos, these extra-terrestrial bodies are the courts of the various gods/cosmic entities and thus can be explored in various wacky ways.

[Tacticslion]

Eight planets! Whose orbits are erratic enough to pass through each others' spaces! Each of which have...

Eight moons! Whose orbits are erratic enough to pass through each others' spaces!

Eight, it seems, is a very important number.

Also, while going beyond the strict question, I'm voting for "eight" suns, though they orbit so tightly (if erratically) and are so individually small that they don't seem to be more than one full sized sun - the net result, however, would be the almost surreal effect of seeing the sun almost randomly expand and contract in strange ways through the atmosphere above. Please note that this is not physically possible. It's just an interesting method of adding the number eight again to the Celestial bodies.

... and eight additional "local planes" of variant reality.

The visual in my head is that creating an orrery for this would might be impossible, but if successful, would create a very bizzare set of intersecting, but never-crashing celestial bodies.

Otherwise,

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In keeping with the idea that the "Dreaming God" is from Earth, let's say eight--one for each other planet in our solar system, plus one... a mysterious "dark planet", as per Nibiru. The mass hysteria/panic regarding "Planet X", could perhaps, color this dream world in such a way as to actually materialize Earth's shadowy double.

This is pretty awesome and makes me reasonably like the concept instead of hate the connection to earth. :)

In any event, in all cases, my suggestion would be that there are seven "good ones" (or rather, comprehensible ones) and one "extra" - the last being sealed, dark, mysterious, and/or terrible, depending.

[Threeshades]

3 planets

and

7 moons

[Tempestorm]

Round 2. Part 1. Zero additional planets with TWO stars/suns (the "eyes" of dreaming god when they are asleep and viewing the world)

Round 2. Part 2. 2 Moons (the "eyes" of the dreaming god when they are awake but still thinking of the world)

[Dustin Ashe]

Zero planets and ten moons.

[Beemer]

7 planets 7 moons

[Conman the Bardbarian]

0 other planets
10 or more moons

[insaneogeddon]

Farael the Fallen wrote:

This is a fun game that I have seen before, so I want to try it myself. This is Round One. I will write out 10 Hooks. I will leave the voting up to you guys for one week. One vote per hook. Whichever hook with the most votes wins and then I will create Round Two with another vote on different aspects of the world. No cheating, not even from me. It could create something interesting or not, lets see where it goes:

1. It is a fantastic world created from a dream by an unknown god, where dreams, fantasies, and nightmares come true.

2. It is an apocalyptic world in the distant future of a broken planet, where magic has replaced technology and the races struggle to survive in a chaotic environment.

3. It is a desert world under the bright light of two suns, where the hostile environment has breed harsh magic, gods, creatures, and treasures.

4. It is a chaotic world governed by mad gods, wild magic, fierce creatures, and lost treasures.

5. It is an elemental world where fire, water, earth, wind, and void take shape and the races are caught in the middle of their ancient struggle.

6. It is a lost world where magic and miracles have run wild and the gods have long abandoned their people, who are seeking a Savior to save them.

7. It is a fantasy, medieval style world with magical creatures, races, gods, miracles, and mysterious dungeons.

8. It is a world in a constant war, since the dawn of time, and factions fight each other to the death until the Apocalypse.

9. It is a world where everyone can cast a spell, except for those called the "Spelless", but there is a dark power that is eating magic.

10. It is a savage world where characters use magic and ancient technology to find lost kingdoms, treasures, artifacts, and knowledge.

Combine the best bits of all - that work for an identifiable concept supported with imagery from comic/book/movie/gaming.

A post-apocalyptic dying desert world. Under the bright light of a broken sun, where magic has replaced technology and the the hostile environment produces harsh creatures, people and the races struggle to survive in the chaotic magically charged environment. Yet ancient treasures and monstrosities are sometimes found (modern gun rules). The world seems lost as faith and gods seem a thing of mere legend noted on ancient manuscript, ironic as magic runs wild touching all even as elemental schools dominate the control of schooled magic.
Yet there are legends of 'chosen ones' the saviours who will bring faith (and so 'reawaken' divine magic) back and usher in the return of a balanced/green world.
There is also a prophesy that should balance return, magic will dim and fail as life energy is returned to the solar vessel. So even the divine magic that will be needed to usher in this transformation will fade into mere faith.
Some refuse to give up THEIR power and awakening power, even if it means the world dies.

[Farael the Fallen]

Round 2 voting so far:

How many other worlds in the Solar System?
#0-5 votes
#3-2 votes
#4-1 vote
#7-1 vote
#8-1 vote

How many moons?
#1-1 vote
#2-1 vote
#3-1 vote
#5-1 vote
#6-1 vote
#7-2 votes
#8-1 vote
#9-1 vote
#10-2 votes

So far having zero other planets and seven moons is in the lead. Plus, there was a vote for 2 Suns and 8 Suns. In keeping with the dreamlike quality of this world, and open voting, I will include voting for the number of "Suns" too. I love the contributions so far! I will have to do a vote on the number of Planes of Reality and all that too. I never would have thought that the Sun(s) would be a representation of the Dreaming God, but that is why I started this. Keep voting and share this with others. I may have to vote to break a tie...

[Beemer]

I think that having 2 suns is a cool idea then in the summer months both suns would be visible and during the winter months one could go behind the other giving the world extreme weather variations.

[Conman the Bardbarian]

It's a dream world, the sun should be one of the moons.

[6 OF 66 OF HEXAMATRIX 666]

Six planets and six moons!!!!

[Cuàn]

It's a dream world and it's all about that dream, so no other planets.

As far as moons go, I vote 7. The reason behind that is that a quick search for numerology told me that 7 is apparently associated with spirit and thought, a great fit for dreams.

Do make the moons inhabitable though and link them to certain dream states. For instance, nightmare beasts could be associated with one of them and become more prevalent when the moon is close while another moon could be associated with amorous or sensual dreams, increasing prevalence of beings like nymphs. You can build quite a bit on that idea.