Candle'Bre
Scope
The motivation behind building Candle'Bre
I fell in love with writing before I even knew how, and would get those little blue school notebooks and turn them into comics.
So far, I've written more than thirty books and I. Just. Can't. Stop.
It had always been on my "to do" list to turn my 4-novel fantasy series into a campaign setting and I finally got around to starting that process! Still lots to do and of course, lots of work to get the materials here, but - Rome wasn't built in a day.
Theme
Genre
Relatively low magic, fairly gritty fantasy. More or less 5th Edition D&D but I have changed so many systems at this point, I'm not 100% sure that applies? I'll let readers be the judge of that. Anyway, I'm all about the Hero's Journey. Characters in my games aren't heroes, or at least they don't start out that way.
Often they're just literally "guys (or gals" from town" who get thrust into a situation that puts them in water WAY over their heads. They're Adventurers who, over time become heroes, and the journey to get there is central to the story.
Drama
The Basin is no longer unified. It was for more than two centuries, and then, during the last 35 years of its existence, the Kingdom of Candle'Bre was more or less embracing democracy and then...everything fell apart. The Kingdom splintered.
The reason the Kingdom splintered was because the "Eye of Kaylaar" fell to the Basin. When it did, it sundered reality in places, ripping the fabric of space and time and opening portals to new realms (the "Four Feys"--in this universe, each Fey Court has its own plane of existence.
Before that, there were no fantasy creatures in the Basin at all. No goblins, elves, dwarves, etc. No monsters. It was basically medieval earth.
Then suddenly, the populace was faced by stuff that used to only exist in stories...
So, the political landscape is a mess, the Basin is being overrun in places by fantastical creatures and the nemesis race of humanity, the Nilroggi, is an ever present threat lurking in the background.
Basically, times are dangerous in the Basin, which makes it the perfect place for adventure!