Please for give my typing- this is very hard for me to type and may one of you might find of use one day. So this is a gift to any of you who might want . IT probably quite lame as I write it under hospice drugs, But just maybe my gift might find a way int your game. Maybe no body will even find thisinteresng. With m best and love JB
Bascially an idea to add science lichdom (humans that no no longer use bodies) solar sytem wide power against one incursion on a god / devil / demon/ lich personal pane of power.
A postnuclear landscape, to survive meant going to underdark or planshifting, - most human material planes were now radiologically lethal. Choosing slavery toan illithid, or aboleth, juts to be able to survive the toxins, mutations and radiation poisonings,
Even the ultraevil and good races would be be tryng to stave off an invading human nuclear war. As those same hmans oured in frm distant future to continue their war here. And trying to actally understand what is happenung. the humans have havekilled every other species they met. The have have killed all tribes of humans but 4 other tribes , and seek t kill all them too.
but why?
A Humankind from a distant dimension without majick has achieved a universal lich-hood. and leaving their bodies This is not reaaly undertdtood by curren liches or scholars as no majick was used- they mechanically create infrnite pocketwords and pass their iives in these pockets worlds. for time beyond comprehension, Anything that consumes power is a threat to them. They need all power to attempt to live past the cold death- when even the le last great great iron suns have cooled into cold iron.
There 4 tribes:
World eaters: Wake up every several million years build a new dyson swarm and battery system around a star- then literally eat every component that fomed ever planet, moon, astroid etc. Leaving a star encosulated by a swarm of collectors and storage and stripped out empty solar system. The world eaters will simpl consome 90% of any life abd those nutrients saved in null boxes. Thor artworlk reveres human skeletans, They will attempt enslvament or cooporation with indead. Especially undead mages, death nights, lights- deaed who have a will. Zombies, ghouls or othe "Rotting" are killed off. Mummies and death knighs naybe be offered city membership and new metalic bodies (brass, red, green, brown, or gray) as suits their ranks, They have other colors but it is taboo to ether list, displsy, use those colors. A taboo violation of color means mind erasaruration and colony sector denial of servive for wo fractak cycles.
The raiders or ahsha: Another group of lich humans living in whatthe call Cityies of Uploadaed Minds. They attack and capture and human world that can, Mind you they do not consider humans who have a normal fleshly body human,
Commitee of 5: A nation of uploaded humans they are the most lawful good of the uploaded humans and membersherip int on of tie city can be bought, There is no word on faerun that could descrrice the wealth required to buy a membership; Commottee 5 worlds usually have quests and job openings. Owning more tham one body per pertstaurm (a political body meaning orince of a province) bodies and minds can be rented and loaned hear with ease.
Freebooters:
Smaller city states bound together thru trade, military, and a olicharchal voting system Easiest of 4 tribes to have one;s mind uploadaded and be bound to coporation in a free contract. Freebooters can and do alter betwee having one any myriads of bodies. There are no personal rights in Freebooters- all rights are direvived from corporate / stockholder rank held.
At the brink of future human nuclear war- a planar door is opened by a maser (a partiticals experiment utizing the full power of black hole 24 times ore massive than SOL but only about 10 to 15 km in volume) power implosion and the tear if the planr rift is currently growing, Current planatary physics especially if many if the smaller heavens and hells will have unforeseen and terrible changes, The very laws of physics, majiicks,and - where as on plane a minor goddess of majck begins trnsforming inti a goddeess of quantum beings that quantum particles become sentient in various forms such as order ,neutral, chaost etc rank forming from combinination of the particals.
SHe wold blossom into a whole new type of god- and her good, evil, and neutrl servnts, Thogh we know mnay of th gods wold alread see this as chances ro redicate ech other anf yet essentlially bind and deaf to the new gods, old golds, or polymorphing gods,
Fundamental particales of an alien physics have been poisoned into the and its cataclycm rages across the skies,
Old, new,, ancient, free, imprisoned are just sing song nonsense in thr new norn washer songs of night hags struggling to gain on iota of clarity.
SO we have the various planes of DND (or another game system like DND) where this highly advanced empires changing, attacking, cooperating with, and merging magik, science, goodhood, and madness whereever one of these door materialize into your setting.
Thoughts:
Who would your world balance out between then ultra teach and magick?
Say you used this in a ravenloft tail how would you strengthen or weaken the dark powers that be? Maybe Borovia would begin to digest the weaker uploaded minds of the freebooter enclave- thse who cant afford high secruity, reduncacy extra storrage. Would Stroud get to have some cool particle pawers - gravity, time, etc
just for fun
