Pax Reptiliana

Once upon a time I ran a I Can't Believe It's Not Spelljammer!  campaign using a Cairn hack of my own device. The main thing was tweaking character creation to fit the setting (I drew from the AD&D ed. primarily). I also wanted to give players some customization options and hopefully strip it of some of the less savoury racial elements. The way I went about it was to decouple race/ancestry from ability, instead going for a ancestry/vocation match, with the former providing equipment (thus pointing at a cultural, not biological, background) and the latter some special ability. Now, I know what you're going to say: but Giff can't be spellcasters! Shut up. Of course they can. It's all made up. ANCESTRY  Krynnish Gnome - [Sword, Hammer, Grease Can, Jar of Pickled Spaham] Giff 1-2 Enlisted 3-4 Officer 5-6 Discharged - [Chest Plate, Arquebus, Fancy Uniform] Scro - [Studded Leather Armor, Handaxe, Pistol, Prize Skull Of A Vanquished Foe] Elf - [Longsword, Brigandin...

Pioneer! The Company has given you a once in a lifetime opportunity. To stake your claim on a rugged new world. To bring order to the great black yonder. To make a home for you and your own. Begin anew! Step up to the slipgate and make destiny manifest! Onward Unto the Breach When slipgate technology was first discovered, and we happened upon the Hell Dimension, there were some who feared that this would open Earth up for demonic takeover. The discovery that Hell natives cannot go through a slipgate without being annihilated put these fears to rest. The additional discovery of Lapis Infernicus, the long sought answer to the ‘free energy’ question, sealed the deal. Your travails are the scaffolding that shore up our utopia. Now you know! Paradise Found You have a great task ahead of you, pioneer. You are the advance party of a mass colonizing movement still in its infancy. You have the sacred honor to be spearheading humankind’s hellward expansion. And thanks to the tireless work of our...