Would it mean to have fantasy religions where gods were not known entities who provided spells to believers,īut instead required faith in their existence? l wanted to subvert some of the common fantasy tropes while

Inh uman? H ow might Christianity be d ifferent if, instead ofJesus, it had been founded byJoan of Arc? What W hat I eventually settled on was a setting grounded in realism: 'What if our own history had magic andĮlves and dwarves?' It's not really our own world, obviously, but I wondered how people would realisticallyĬope with neighbors who could cast spells and summon demons. Who does this sort of thing as part of their job? It seemed a little surreal. This wasn't some homebrew campaign, but something You can play in and not just read about, l wasn't sure. The real question was: what would thoseĮlements be? Outside of the parameters l was given, and the necessity of this being a setting for a game that Mixing the elements you li ke most into your flavor of fan tasy world. Point or another1 isn't it? You don't have to worry about someone else's baggage affecting your campaign, orīe concerned that your players might know more about the setting than you do. I mean1 making your own fa ntasy setting is something every game master worth their salt does at one

I remember sitting there, doodli ng mapsĪnd feeling very strange about the entire process. I rem ember the parameters I was given: a traditional fantasy world, complete with wizardsĪnd dwarves and elves and all the things one expects out of fantasy. Years that followed were such a blur as we t ried to figure out what kind of game we were making. At that point, it was still a very vague concept. I honestly forget when James Ohlen, the original lead designer for Dragon Age: Origins, first came to discussīuilding a setting for BioWare's new fantasy game.

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