All Ideas

by EchoMirage

Imagine a tribe of nomads where all the males have the blessing of being were-stallions. The tribe would not need to have ordinary horses to move around, all mounted warriors would be female and a curious custom could be that when a couple gets married, the girl rides her chosen to the altar.
+XP
Ideas - Society/ Organization
July 3, 2004
+XP
A character who is undergoing changes of personality (like buying off mental disadvantages - flaws - or changing alignment) might confront personifications of aspects of his personality in dreams: a griffon representing the courage he needs to face a terrible foe, or a satyr standing for the lecherousness a warrior must overcome to be admitted to an order of knights who must uphold vows of chastity.
+XP
Ideas - Plots
June 19, 2004
+XP
If mana recovered slowly enough, and mages could pass it on freely between them, the ephemeral force would become a valuable trading commodity on its own.
+XP
Ideas - System
June 19, 2004
+XP
What if a mage passes his powers on to his firstborn son, and a female mage to her first daughter, leaving the parent POWERLESS? A plain mortal, a sorcerer no longer, all wizardly might gone?

Or: what if a female wizard recieves the power of a mage who sires a child with her? Could lead to promiscuous witches and overly careful mages.
+XP
Ideas - System
June 19, 2004
+XP
What if cancer is not an ailment if one has a will powerful enough, and knows what do do. What if one using the right techniques could control it and use it to become immortal, or to grow into something else?
+XP
Ideas - System
June 19, 2004
+XP
Pick up a pathology/microbiology book, and add the diseases/syndroms to your game. Your players will freak out.

Coughed at? Diphteria. or tuberculosis?

Drunk from a muddy stream? Or just walked through? Well, let us introduce you to schistosomiasis...

Hit by a stream of energy? Too moch mana is ust like too much radioactivity - perhaps all mages could develop cancer early if too powerful...
+XP
Ideas - System
June 19, 2004
+XP
Animals have parasites and diseases, so do plants, there are even bacteria that cann dissolve oil spills or plastic or what have you - why couldn't there be a disease living off magic - a magic item could be infected, losing power and speading the plague to other equipment it contacts, while a magic user would slowly lose his powers and contaminate all he works with or casts a spell at...
+XP
Ideas - Lifeforms
May 31, 2004
+XP