Alam

 Hii everyone <3 so basically this is just going to be an introduction to a setting of mine - I made it a few years ago for what ended up becoming my last game of D&D before I finally accepted I just don't like the system anymore. I kinda put it aside because bits of it are really wrapped up in the assorted D&D-isms, but also it's been several years and I'm still thinking about it. In an unrelated scenario, Blattella of MASCARA KNIGHT fame has been telling me about OSR and particularly GLOG - I'm not 100% sure if GLOG is gonna be the home for me (or OSR at all, for that matter), but if nothing else the community has made me realize I can do what I want forever <3. SO for now I'm gonna just post about the setting and maybe I'll start making game rules but without further ado: Alam.

 

 

Now you might be thinking, "Hi Tome, why is it called that?" Literally don't even worry about it you'll find out later. Maybe. IDK. I have to rewrite things so that I like the style. Anyway what's way more important I think are the funky little dots and labels - major settlements and cultures. All of this is subject to change - decoupling from old systems is messy but a lot of the bones will probably remain.

 

First up, the important things: In Alam, unlike a lot of fantasy settings, people weren't made - but neither did they evolve. Instead, the land itself simply results in people. The world is magical, after all! Get a mountain range without any people in them? One day a few dwarves will just. . .appear. Sweeping plains without a two-legged creature to be seen? Keep an eye out - you'll probably see humans eventually. Where people pop up and how often isn't known, but it just sorta happens. On a deeper level it's some elemental bullshit but honestly I haven't fleshed that out enough to elaborate just yet.

 

source You might be thinking "Isn't that an island?" Well it's a mountain too okay. Dwarves are literally going to be there ASAP.

 

Okay I have a lot of fun thoughts and I'm realizing if I took the time to write them all in this post it would be the longest thing ever. So instead I'm going to. Not do that. I'll write other posts soon probably because I'm really locked in on this setting right now. Now most of my old notes are centered around Elostirion and the Ardhelian Empire because that's where we were playing but I prommy I have fun things about other places. Anyway look at my map boy.