Giant multi-layered forests with XBOX HUEG root systems.

underwater dungeons, once the players are high enough level are wonderful. Or, if you want to cheat, give them a plant that lets them breathe in water for say, two hours.

The "civilized folk" come around. And their boats aren't tiny wooden boats. No, they're going around in giant steam powered ships with ogres powering the oars.

Maybe an early adventure would be exploring one of them.

Natural Caves. Cooled Lava Tunnels. Limestone Caverns. The lower levels could be half flooded with water. Magma Chambers. Passages into The land of the Dead. Altars to Volcano Gods.

Sunken cities, old pompeji-style ruined cities, abandonded tree-top villages, vast stranded or beached ships

You could always do the entire "gigantic haunted shipwreck" sort of angle as well. Other than that, depending on if you're making it just tropical or a series of islands, you could easily supplant a fair amount of regular campaigns and transplant them how you like; Perhaps two islands over there is another Tiki warforged pretending to be a god to a bunch of... hell, Rastafarian Kobolds. Ooh, how about some sort of slave revolt at a plantation?

Let your party have fun, listen to them for ideas, and put in hammocks instead of bedrolls. And don't be stingy with the rum.

Golden Sun's Aqua Rock is a good example of a tropical dungeon. I wont describe it, but rather here's a youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMBU9qPoUsM

>>4974394
Bitches don't know what Rastafarian is beyond Jamaica and Weed.

>>4974426
Nope, but I'm willing to bet OP's players don't know either. Either way, enlighten me, I have never heard a good definition that didn't end up degenerating into Jamaica and weed.

What? Sorry, I tried to read your post OP, but I kept being distracted by delicious elf tits.

We need more drawfaggotry of those two and the rest of their party.

Carribean Gnolls that would rather be bards than eat people?

The BBEG is a a surfer mage (whose goal is to make the most rightous wave to ride ever, aka tsunami) and his fortress is made up of no less than 12 large boats connected by planks and teleport pads.

Immense floating trader cities that put in at your islands for trade and supplies:

1. One wrecks itself on a volcanic island and you have to search it for the charts/navigational equipment/other treasure before the upcoming eruption
2. GHOST CITY OF UNDEAD
3. You're hired by one to infiltrate and/or sink another

Alternatively, your island could be suffering attacks from strange legged constructs that appear to be bonded to sealife, while also dealing with a strange magical plague. Imagine looking out a tavern's window and seeing a dire shark staring back.

Why not have an alien race invade... in wooden ships. The Dark Elves from across the seas seek to burn your land, enslave your children and rape your wives. Are you rastadorf enough to stop them?

You know those stereotypical "cannibalistic jungle tribes"? They're the lizardfolk.

>>4974465

>>4974439
Its an Abrahamic religion following all the old testament rules like Orthodox Judaism. Then instead of Jesus coming and being the Savior like in Christianity its Haile Selassie The Last Emperor of Ethiopia. Then mix in Some Black Pride and instead of the Eucharist at mass they smoke pot.

Make sure you read Nation for wonderful ideas.

>>4974489
they're actually the laid-back surfer types whose religion is based around finding the hottest, flattest rock in existance to lounge on, and thus attain enlightenment. read the old threads:

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/4709769
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/4720018

>>4974465
bonus points if your party avoids fighting him by explaining that such a wave would destroy the beaches and it would be a "bummer" if he didnt have anywere to hang out and have a bonfire afterwords.

an unrelated note
Dwarven limbo champion
Prereq: dwarf, dex 13
You suffer no penalties for squeezing into small areas and may pass through large or larger enemies, you may not end your turn in a square ocupied by enemies and may only use this against enemies with legs (so not against giant snakes or geleatinous cubes). This moving into an enemy square provokes an attack of oportunity.

>>4974503
Ah, much better. Thanks, kind and informed anon.

Volcanoes, volcanoes, volcanoes

Surfer Joe, Surfer Joe, Surfer Joe

Naked elf, Naked elf, Naked elf


WIN

This is your BBEG.

>>4974593
i know BBEG means last boss etc, what does it exactly stands for?

>>4974613
Big Bad Evil Guy

>>4974613
Big Bad Evil Guy.

>>4974593
Damn you, Barbados Slim! Damn you and your glistening Caribbean body!

>>4974618
thanks

What are we gonna do about human populations in the setting?

I say we make them tourists. All tourists.

>>4974697

Farmers and fishermen and traders. Wind Waker-style

Man, this tropical island world seems more and more amazing every time I read about it! I MUST HAVE MORE

>>4974697
>>4974707
already done! read the old threads on suptg damnit! they're even linked earlier in this thread!

>>4974511

Oooh, thanks for pointing these out. I always pictured lizardfolk looking pretty much like Komodo dragons, so this is great. And it's fun to think of them lounging around on Aztec ruins, since I've always had this idea of basing their culture on the Aztecs. (Think: heart sacrifices, sun gods, macuahuitls).

>>4974766

Aztec Lizardfolk you say...

Idea: Strange insect people occasionally sail in to trade islanders various objects. They have no concept of what the islanders want to buy, so they might show up with a cargo of wool sweaters and fireplace pokers once, and bikinis and axes the next time.

>>4974801
in other words, Dwarf Fortress caravans?

Also, somebody needs to archive this thread.

Shouldn't we write the info from all these things down some where in a more easily digested way. Instead of having to read through 2-3 ful threads.

>>4974874
Yeah, except instead of a caravan of mostly useless stuff intermixed with a couple bauxite blocks (or whatever), it's a ship full of bicycle pumps or something like that. Barring a new fad involving making air powered pebble guns, the caravan is more bizarre and useless than any DF caravan. Add confused bug people, and it'll be awesome.

>>4974967
SPECIAL PRIZE FOR YOU MY FRIEND! That should sum up what 70 % of the bug people should know of human language.

>>4974967
They navigate by magnetic fields or somesuch. However, due to all the volcanic activity in and around the islands, background magnetic fields are totally out of whack and changing every day. Not enough to mess with a human trading ship's compass, but enough for these bug people to never ever land at the same place twice.

One of the tiny island kingdoms could have some sort of proletarian revolt, led by a bearded, cigar-chomping man and his idealistic revolutionary doctor friend. They could switch the purpose of the kingdom from a sunny tropical resort for fat wealthy mainland tourists to an industrial powerhouse. The PC's could either be caught in-between the fighting forces or support either side in their struggle. It could be pretty cool if done right.

>>4974982
Or the same place thrice in a row.

Dungeons; non-exhaustive, non-original

Humongous ship. Operative, haunted, sunken, any combination and degrees thereof. Half-sunken ship serving as a base of operations for a bunch of bay pirates? Ship with a troubled past: the only affordable way to sail.

Forest. Wet or dry? Lush or dead? Layered towards the sky or the sea? Open or mazy? Dangerous or deadly? Creatures, spirits or civilization? Hand-made structures? Ruins thereof? Completely untouched by civilization in forever?

Seafloor. Ruins? Very deep? Caverns?

Sailing. The ship is mostly under control, threats come outside. Sea creatures, weather, angry gods, pirates, hostile navy. Plot: Delivery, escape, decoy, search, warfare, exploration.

Cities. Politics, including uppity mayors, guild feuds and interracial conflicts. Thieves. Ship maintenance. Defense, sabotage.

>>4974742

oh goddamit, sauce?

>>4974981
I read "bug people."
I pictured the Thri-khreen from 2nd Ed D&D.

Floating cities the size of cruiseships (still rowed by ogres- it is cool and provides troops)
a few dinosaurs, oppressive foreign governments controlling and being mean to the fun loving locals, entire tribes of normal folks who are secretly monks to fight the oppressors. Big scary black women naked except for body paint and chicken blood holding gruesome Voodoo fetishes- and she is the local cleric. Fabulous gold mines on the Isle of Hungry Dinosaurs(who are controlled by lizardman shamans).
Submarine races. OK, how about Atlantean Traders who use submarines. Enchanted sandcastles that are impervious to all harm, they appear at low tide on the water's edge. Inside is bigger than the outside and contain giant crab guardians or other sea monsters. When the tide comes back in they melt and go back out to sea, taking adventurers with them if they are too slow. Elf tits, even if your players aren't dedicated virgins. Tree monkey halflings who like to use poisoned blowguns(use drow poison so the party wakes up naked later). Small village - population 200, 150 of them are foreigners who retired here after reaching 20th level. The Tarrasque hates water and is stuck on one moderate sized island. Seafaring tribes of orcs or goblins who live at sea and only land to raid. Chthulu cultist halfbreeds summoning Deep Ones or worse from the depths. Awakened rainforests that take over any druids that get too close. Weird tunnels that connect islands that are close to each other. Ships with diving bells to explore the ocean for shipwrecks and gold. Bards that are very powerful arcanists.

Believe it or not I have already started a campaign based on this setting

So far I have used ancient ruin's, a natural maze made from dried coral reefs, the twisted tunnels of lava tubes in a dormint volcano, even them wandering through a dense forest is consistent of a crawl.

I have also had several dugeons involving raiding ships and one planned where they are adventuring inside the stumach of a massive beached liviathan.

For some reason (evil wizard/ancient ritual/nobody knows why) a new island suddenly appears on the horizon. Scout rowers send out to investigate it have all disappeared. This is the sort of thing best handled by people with more bravery than brains, and that means adventurers. The island is guarded by (hordes of drowned undead/merfolk who think it's an act of their religion's deity/unusually vicious foliage), and the party has to find out what happened to the scouts - and survive long enough to report back.

>>4975046
>The Tarrasque hates water and is stuck on one moderate sized island.

>Weird tunnels that connect islands that are close to each other.

>Ships with diving bells to explore the ocean for shipwrecks and gold.

Everything in that post but those three ideas was either utter crap or a worse version of something already in this thread.

That said, that was an awesome post, because those three ideas rock. The second doesn't rock as much as the others, but still.

>>4975055
Suddenly, Dark Heresy?
In the GRIM DARKNESS of this Paradise World, there is only intrigue...

Wreckers: a type of land based pirates that would place lights (imitating a lighthouse) to lure ships into dangerous water, and then loot the wreckage.

This setting needs some, I say this campains Kenku are wreckers

This Setting almost Demands there be Aboleths

I love this fucking campaign idea.

Keep it coming /tg/ this is what is next for me.

Maybe some more Voodoo, all humans are black and practice it. BongoBongo related.

>>4975190
inb4 all elf party

>>4975190
We have established that voodoo is basically necromancy. Only more spirits and less corpses.

>The Tarrasque hates water and is stuck on one moderate sized island.

I think it's much cooler if Big T can rise from the sea like a proper Godzilla-clone. Maybe he just spends most of his time sleeping on the seafloor, but testing of the first ship-based black powder cannons awakens him a little early. Cue Tarrasque vs. pirate fleet.

>>4975190
Also, the voodoo has it's own underdark like place.

BongoBongo is it's charismatic and generally awesome ruler. He totally bargains with people all the time and gives a little extra to people who make him laugh. Jokes about not having a head a +

>>4975200
Didn't voodoo popularize the idea of the walking dead though? Shouldn't they be into zombies and spirits?

>>4975112
Not just any Kenku
Island Kenku's instead of looking like crows they look like sea gulls.

The Spaniards/orcs, having sent a few islanders back to the Madre Patria, unexpectedly discover a huge demand for the new variety of slaves and become rich. In the interests of getting richer, they've stepped up their "recruitment" campaigns and have begun setting up small military outposts everywhere they can. If someone who's important to the adventurers just so happens to get kidnapped, they'll have to fight their way to the holding pens in the main colonial port.

>>4975242
Have you ever read up on voodoo rituals
Many of them focus more in being touched by once dead ancesters and spirits.
That doesn't mean that they won't use zombies it just means they are more likely to summon wraiths and ghosts than the corpses.

>>4975246
Orcs in ruffs?

>>4975266
I didn't say voodoo should meaning raising living corpses man. Voodoo is the link in popular culture to zombies though, is all.

I like to keep mah DnD unrealistic.

>>4975274
And spiffy helmets.

Island turles/turtle islands.

>>4975293
Yeah but which sounds less cliche
A voodoo priest summoning the walking dead to bring a town to its knees
or
people mysteriously dieing, being torn to shreds in the middle of the town in daylight by some unseen killer and the only thing they did was challenge a local voodoo priest.

>>4975321
Both sound pretty fucking cliche to me, considering Voodoo is the religious 'white magic' equivalent and Hoodoo is the nasty sorcerous shit.

>>4975266
Voodo Magic usually falls into two categories.
Kissing Loa's ass and asking them for favors or Potions and poisons. Help from Ghosts and Spirits falls under kissing ass since the Loa are the middle men for that thing. Zombies an Dolls fall under potions and poisons since voodoo zombies aren't actually undead.

>>4975317
Enduring diseases untold. Unprotected contact with an orc or a direct possession thereof yields an unknown disease encounter. Thankfully protections through magic are usually manageable.

Also, the orcs ought to have an eye for a worthless raw good so that they're ready to raid for it and process fine art to get to the raw material they seek.

Goblins could be stupid little cargo cult worshiping primitives who wear adorable little hats made of coconuts.

>>4975425
We established goblins were the Dutch and mainly capture and trade slaves.

Since everybody is so damn confused, anyone feeling up to compiling info on 1d4chan?

>>4975243
fuck yeah

inslander kenku seagal wreckers. They will make fake lighthouses and wreck your ship

>>4975445
there are two things I hate in this world:
those who are intolerant of other people's cultures... and the DUTCH.

Lord of the flies style kid raiding group starts hitting the locals.

You could have them be from anywhere, but they'd easily slot into rogue, ranger, and sorcerers for skillsets.

Have one of the villages find a guards head mounted on a stick outside the village just before the kids roll through town

>>4975450
Good Idea

>>4975445
Kobolds, then?

>>4975472
Yes. Approved.

>>4975499
That works I mean there already adorable and the coconut hats only add to it.

>>4975518
Ohgod does that mean this will have cutebolds rather than proper kobolds?

>>4975536
>>4975518
get out.

>>4975518
Someone get a drawfag on this.

There are no mammals native to the Islands except those that hitched a ride onboard a boat, either as a domestic animal (goats) or as vermin (rats).

There are, however, a wide variety of morphologically diverse flightless birds native to the Islands.

Picture related: here we see a small beaked, downy feathered hopping bird; they keeps cool on hot days by waving around their floppy, boneless wings.

The name for this species varies across the native cultures of the Islands; they are called 'rabites' by the Orcs for two reasons: first, they reminded them of the rabbits of their homelands, and second, they're "bite-sized" (by Orc standards) and pretty tasty even if you don't have time to cook and prepare them.

We could have the kobolds ride fairy and rockhopper penguins.

why must you faggots try and drag fucking cutebolds into fucking EVERYTHING

>>4975976
.....You CAN ignore them you know. Its not like its etched into your forehead.

You could also have conquistadors come to the island in search of god, glory, and gold and have a BBEG focused around that.

>>4976094
Not conquistadors exactly but a type of conquistadors.

Ok so if Orcs are Spain and Goblins are the Dutch, does that mean Bugbears are the British?

>>4975734
Ripping off videogames ftw.

>>4976138
And the French are Trolls

>>4976138
read the old threads. Humans are british and gnomes are french

>>4976182

But according to the current thread, the humans are just fishing, tribal island-dwellers. This shit should really get systematized and put on 1d4chan.

>>4976138

Spanish orcs?

Oh motherfucker I'm playing this next campaign.

VENGA COÑO VENGA QUE LOS JODO A TODOS USTEDES PUTOS!!!

We need some more Skies of Arcadia up in this shit. Well, except for the islands being normal islands anyway.

Have one island be a super-sized version of Kaua'i. The PCs have been hired to explore the interior and western side of the island, which are too rugged for easy access from the ocean.

They head upriver into the island, finally having to trek by foot into the crater of the extinct volcano at the heart of the island, with torrential rainfall in the crater and waterfalls dropping for hundreds or thousands of feet down the sides. Then they climb it.

When they reach the other side, they can see the local equivalents of Waimea Canyon and the Na Pali Coast. You should be able to get a decent adventure out of those two places, especially if you're increasing the scale (though I recommend that you keep the valleys on the coast the same width as the real world ones, just make the cliffs taller and increase the number of valleys).

1. Watch Indiana Jones movies
2. Steal traps. Alter slightly
3. ??????
4. DUNGEON!

CANNIBALISTIC GNOMES!

Space faring Luchadores.


"Hey anon luchadores are out of place in this case"


Anon, Luchadores are always out of place. You just can't go wrong with it.

>Lizardmen are similar to aztec, with a large,organized empire, but they do not quite see other creatures as 'alive' as they are. Dwarves are mysterious, living statues. Merfolk are vengeful fish-spirits sent to punish any who trespass in the ocean. halflings are little gods of death that lizardmen give the dead too, as having a halfling eat the flesh ensures the soul gets freed and sent to the afterlife quickly. Humans are chaotic, unknowable demons from across the horizon.

>everything is magical, and everything demands proper ritual and procedure when dealing with them. Nothing scares the lizardmen like misfit humans or the aggressive, corrupting views of the orcs.

This was proposed and rejected in one of the older threads. When I read it, I thought it might work for Dragonborn, since there really wasn't any concensus for them.

/r/ing a picture of a Spaniard Orc Solider in one of those Spanish helmets.

Shit just got...

just got...

DOUBLE CASH

>>4977754

Bump for awesome!

I hate saying this but WoW style Jungle Trolls would work perfectly in this kinda setting.

OP's trolls don't have long noses or fangs, fail.

If you have D20 past, there's an island-based adventure in there. It's based on the D20 Modern system, but you could use it as a splatbook. If I remember right, it's pretty basic. A sorceress is kidnapping villagers to sacrifice their hearts to the volcano god for power and then handing the victims' bodies over to her necromancer fuckbuddy so they can make undead guards for their volcano fortress.

>>4976664
FUCK YEAH MASKED WRESTLERS

>>4975734
Those are clearly ears.

>>4974503
>Haile Selassie The Last Emperor of Ethiopia.
>The Last Emperor of Ethiopia
>Emperor

Then mix in Some Black Pride and instead of the Eucharist at mass they smoke pot.

QUADRUPLE HERESY!!!

My friend had a plant god named Gangeeha. He gave my character Black Weed. She was never the same.

This may have been said before, but you cannot have a campaign like this without one dungeon-delve where the PC's are swallowed by an enormous whale.

BUMP FOR MORE INFO

>>4979213
Trolling perhaps? That's an elf.

>>4980096
Trolls are descended from night elves but they are racially distinct now.

>>4980107
That's backwards, actually; all elves are descended from trolls.

Elfing in a troll thread, aren't we?

I love this setting!

The original picture made me laugh so hard.

It was decided in previous threads that the races would be thus:

Orcs are the Spanish, bringing their good old time religion to the Tropical paradise in big ships. Any gold they get is secondary to that goal

Humans are English and Gnomes are French. Trading rivals come for gold and loot. On a similar note, the Goblins are the Dutch.

Elves are the alternately peaceful natives or cannibalistic savages.

Dorfs are typical dwarves, only TOTALLY TROPICAL.

Merfolk are savage raiders that prove very dangerous to sea traffic.

Lizardfolk are the laidback degenerate descendants of the great race that built the massive ruins.

The Tiki Warforged are just... there. No-one knows how they got there.

>>4980834
The HALFLINGS are the cannibals.

>>4980999
No, the halflings are local currency. Refer to AG for details.

In my setting, tikiforged were corpses vomited back out by volcanos a day after a sacrifice ritual, and under the control of the tribe priest who headed the ritual. They are made in the image of the volcano god.

A HUGE iceberg appears, right in the middle of the shipping lanes. It very steadfastly refuses to melt. As a matter of fact, it's getting BIGGER, somehow. When the party is sent to investigate, they find a number of entrances that appear to go deeper down into the thing.

>>4980999

My mistake.

Elves = Happy peaceful natives.
Halflings = Savage cannibals

Also, are there giant Moai heads?

>>4980834
>hurf durf race == nationality

Nice Gamer Retarded line, gonna have to use that for my future trolls.

>>4981575
MYSTERIOUS Giant Moai heads.

>>4981595
that may or may not be sleeping golems

>>4982079
even the ones constantly spewing water out of their mouths like in >>4974396 ?

It seems like people in this thread keep trying to take the island out of the island setting, such as the Tarzan rip-off here
>>4975005

I say fuck the main land, the only time you ever see that is from traders, keep the PC's natives, and have a BBEG like
>>4974465

Or maybe something involving Loa, or maybe an evil sect of the Rasta dwarves.

>>4976808

I read through all the archived threads.

This setting is missing one key point.

Sea Elves.

>>4975243

MINE?

>>4984154
I lol'd

>>4976808
Generally, everyone agreed to think of lizardmen as nothing more than lazy tribes that spent their days sprawling out in the sun, sometimes lumbering in the tropical forests for feed.

Think of them as frilled lizards. They just lie there, basking in the sun but if you piss them off, they reveal their frills and chase you the fuck out of their territory.

>>4984009
The aquatic elves of the region live very similar lives to those on the land.

They wear little to no clothing, the clothing they do wear is only there to signify rank and sometimes such bulky dress can create problems for maneuverability in water. They share all things and have a community ownership of most property in their villages.

Sea elves often come on land to converse and deal with land dwelling elves and humans.

The Sea elves are not as naive as their land born cousins, they frequently skirmish with the merfolk in the area and know a great deal about war.

Due to the sea elves there are quite a few Half Sea Elves that long to be like their elven brethren free from their human bonds to live in the sea.

>>4986029
People say 'Sea Elf', I immediately think 'Vaporeon'

>>4986029
so basically combining the elves and merfolk of this setting?

I'de say caves and abandoned temples ala Indiana Jones

>>4984602
There seems to be a big disconnect on the lineage of the Lizardfolk here guys.

If I may make a proposal, and I hope we can discuss it further than this. Since Dragonborn have rules that are more akin to a playable race from lvl 1 in 3.5 and 4th I suggest Dragonborn take the place of our basking chill lizardmen. They aren't too bothered by other people but generally keep to themselves. Some decide to "chill wit' dah uther brahs" and do a little adventuring.

The lizardmen become the creators of the Tiki-forged and are generally ass holes. They hold up in their ruins and use the philosophy that other beings aren't alive like they are (I really enjoyed this concept presented earlier, if anyone has copy pasta of that, plx post it) to justify killing them and using them for their own purposes (sacrificing their virgins to create tiki-forged. Which oddly enough will pretty much rule out most things except colonizing humans and orcs).

If people don't like this, we could always switch it around, the Dragonborn are the assholes and the Lizardmen are the chill ones.

>>4986084
Not really, merfolk can be on land at all.

So one will occasionally see a sea elf.

Hey I had an idea. Shark-people. Fuck yeah.

>>4986132
can't be on land at all, typo.

A lot of non-natives might not have any idea about the crazy ass merfolk. So some merfolk might lure people into the water unintentionally, as some settlers might try to get in the water and communicate with the 'sea elves'

>>4986140
The merfolk are our shark people. That's what they look like, and they are fucking psychopaths.

>>4986140
see merfolk.

>>4986132
>merfolk can't be on land at all.
wrong. first thread. they occasionally have raiding parties on coastal settlements, and can sometimes be found milling around on beaches looking for something.

>>4986140
If only this computer hadn't been mind wiped I'd have posted a pic singifying how JAWSOME that idea is.

Start with shipwrecks. Lots and lots of shipwrecks. The debris all floats towards one point, where creatures have used it to build a nest.

May I suggest an aquatic race? Clams. Not clam-people. Intelligent, sentient clams. We made them a bit ago. Well the fluff, but the threads eventually died. Maybe we could use them?

>>4986169
How do they raid anything on land without legs?

>>4986282
Crawl on their belly... menacingly

>>4986282
what.

oh, you're thinking The Little Mermaid style merfolk. These are shark-people merfolk. they have legs and are covered in scales and have fishy heads with BIG POINTY TEETH

>>4986376
like bloodthirsty shark-headed zora, then?

>>4986483
exactly. but without that retarded head-tail

>>4974301
JUNGLE ELF TITS

Needs more Aztec/Mayan influence.

the drawfag's thread has 404'd. i can now post this without the stupid image macro text

I must say, the idea of perky caucasian females dressed like National Geographic women is pretty damn hawt.

>>4986989
1. Create spell that produces perkiness, eliminating the need for bras.

2. Cast spell on topless women

3. Profit!

>>4986483
>>4986376
Sounds kinda like the Sahuagin.

>>4986954
Happy barely there grass skirt wearing elf girls DO WANT!

>>4987062
Who also enjoy drinking, swimming and hawt sex? New vacation spot!

I like the look of tikiforged far more than the vaguely creepy default ones.

>>4987087
same here. hell, i'm gonna be rolling one next campaign i'm in, and it's not even this setting

sage for shitting on the one good thing from that setting.

>>4987150
what one good thing and how did we shit on it?

come on man, if you're gonna troll, at least give some specifics

0/10

>>4987087

I like to imagine all the eyes and faces interacting with the environment, smiling, frowning, looking around etc. Only the "main" face would speak, though.

Remember the aztec ruins from the donkey kong country show? Inhabited by the powerful and prophetic Inca Dinka Doo? Theres a good dungeon, a giant tropical jungle city, slightly different from the regular forest city, possibly inhabited by canibal halfling tribes. A hollowed out mountain filled with a corrept company of humans or gnomes(possibly occupied dwarf mine).

The crystal coconut could be a great plot device as the heroes need to stop the BBEG from using it to grant him a wish spell.

You should include some Pacific influences too, to make things more varied.

>>4987214
Or alternatively you could in the hollow mountain have a tribe of more active lizardmen led by a King K Rool type who are organized and will kill anyone to get the crystal coconut so they can simply WISH for the ultimate sunbathing rock(noth that anyone knows this).

>crawl menacingly on their bellies

I believe Blizzard did that thing pretty well. WC3 expansion, intro movie.

You know, I'd prefer if this setting was JUST tropical islands. Maybe there's no mainland for colonists to come from. Maybe the landmass of the entire world is just island chains surrounding the equator, and the rest is ocean and icecaps. That would allow the setting to focus on nothing but mythological and epic adventures inspired by tropical cultures.

>>4987189
Oh, didn't notice this post, Inka Dinka Doo/Quintesson style tikiforged face.

>>4974586
THIS POST
ALL YOU NEED

>>4987288
To tell the truth, I agree. But a lot of people want colonists, it seems. Unless we can get a good number of people (liek 5) to agree to have it be all islands, we probably have to keep the colonials.

>>4987288
I don't think that's very good, either. The earth as we walk it is pretty diverse. We tend to create settings that are not. I believe better mileage is had from restricting this setting to a part of the greater world around it. There is a mainland somewhere, but it doesn't matter much. The details are supposed to be vague outside the tropical island chains in focus.

>>4987321

The point is to have a lot of diversity, but have that diversity focused on the tropical regions. Or do you honestly believe that we can't fill out a whole planet with islands divese enough? There's a shitload of material to borrow from, books, games, aesthetics, different cultures from different continents and seas... Pacific Islander cultures, Mesoamerican cultures, Oriental tropical cultures, Mediterranean cultures, rainforest cultures... That whole belt is the most diverse on regular old Earth as well.

And then this guy pops out of the water

>>4987363
>The Scribbler
>The Scribe

In my Tropical World fanfic, all lesser races are exterminated for the glory of the white race.

>>4987352
But it's all coastal or islands. When the players of this setting grow tired of island hopping, the best thing to do is a fucking portal out of the world.

Instead of just moving to a continental quarter of the world.

But we don't need to care about what the fuck is in the continents. It's a open ticket to diversity.

I'm scanning some german rpgs (DSA) sourcebook pictures that can be used for a tropical setting.

Here's abodes of various tribes.

I like the floating village thingie at the bottom.

>>4987396

Continents require their own fluffing or backstory. Like those conquistador orcs, where do they come from? What does that place look like? What's their religion, how'd they develop a civilization, etc, etc. I mean remove all that and focus on all the cool stuff that can happen in a tropical setting. And when the players get tired of island-hopping... Well, if the players are playing in Sigil and they get tired of a giant city, then I guess it's time to change setting. Same here, it's a themed setting that allows for more depth over variety. I just think a lot of settings opt for the opposite, they have so much variation but not enough information and fluff to elaborate all the areas, with this setting there's a chance to go in-depth and develop one core theme very well.

Its simple. Without a continental civilised world, where are the pirates gonna come from?

And what ships would there be for them to attack and towns to raid and kidnap the governor's daughter from?

Here's some pirates, yarr!

I'd call the ship SS Rapeface

Carnival!
Aw yeaaaah!

Also some Lizardmen fishing.

The german RPG solves the civilized world in tropical setting by having a decadent city state that runs on slaves.

That way the good pirates have lots of ships to plunder and galley slaves to free and the bad pirates have a market for fresh slaves.

They are some sort of mix between the romans and spanish conquestadores.

>>4987043
You know, I'm not upset like I was before that some were trying to change merfolk.

I have no problems with merfolk in the islander setting now. Because they are only called merfolk, they are actually sahuagin. Easy to stat and run now.

How about this: The largest "continents" should really just be large islands (at most the size of maybe Sicily or Cyprus; not as big as Britain or New Zealand), mostly located a good distance from the main campaign setting focus tropical island arc.

MAKE METAL RARE AND SACRED. PROMOTE THE USE OF ISLAND CULTURE STYLED WEAPONS!

Think darksun, except slightly lighter hearted by nature, and epic seamonsters to slay, then turn into tools.

>>4988317
Im dumpan images. TIKIPUNK FOR THE WIN.

>>4986140
Sahuagin

http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/sahuagin.htm

>>4988867
fuck yeah, shark people

So I still don't understand. The religion is going to be primarily Polynesian pantheism/ancestor worship/nature spirit stuff with a bit of voodoo?

Hm, this does tempt me to use a tropical island style locale when playtesting my setting...

It's not the first time I've been tempted in that way.

So anyway, so we've got sunken ruins from ancient civilizations, ships, natural rock formations with accompanying sea monsters, etc...

Did anyone mention the force of nature dieties? With one hand, the Volcano takes away life, and with the other it grants limitless bounty to survivors. It is a capricious god, but generous to the lucky.

Also, dolphin/manta ray riders?

>>4988350
>>4988317
sharked toothed weapons? fuck yeah

>>4988934
>manta ray riders

I think I just came a little.

Holy shit, this thread is still going? Fuck yeah!

>>4988941
>Shark

Needs at least one giant hermit crab that the npcs can either hitch a ride inside, or walk inside to take down.

Also, big sharks. But I just love sharks.

Pic related, its my feelings towards this thread.

>>4989205 Needs at least one giant hermit crab that the npcs can either hitch a ride inside, or walk inside to take down.
The inside of the hermit crab's shell is, in fact, an extra-dimensional mansion, complete with sea mite maidservents.

>>4988350
>>4988879
I RETURN

COCONUT AND RATTAN ARMOR, SHARKTOOTH GREAT WEAPON

for all their flaws (and transgressions against the ride they were inspired by), the Pirates of teh Carribean movie had some good ideas.

like a Pirate Fortress made from a mountain of wrecked ships

SHARK PEOPLE. WITH SHARK TOOTH KATARS!

MADE FROM 100% GIANT SHARK!

WHALE BALEEN ARMOR! FOR THE FIGHTER WHO HATES SINKING. AND WHALES.

A MADU. BECAUSE FUCK YOU, STABBING FOLKS WITH ANTELOPE HORNS ROCK.

HORN STABBING DAGGER, ACTUALLY INDIAN, BUT FITS THE MOOD.

Well, it's finally a good place to use the yoyo as a weapon. Cuz, you know... Island folks used yoyos to catch shit.

FUCK YEAH, FISH BONE TRIDENT (this is for fishing, but if you make it big enough...)

BONE IS THE NEW FLINT/VOLCANIC ROCK. STILL DOSN'T MEAN WE CAN'T ROCK OUT.

YOU WANT DYNAMIC CAMPAIGN MAPS? WE GOT DYNAMIC CAMPAIGN MAPS BITCH!

>>4989544
i prefer giant turtles to giant whales myself, but whatever floats your boat (or island in this case)

WHALE BONE SWORD. AGAIN, FOR THE FIGHTER WHO HATES WHALES.

>>4988317
>>4988350
not big enough for you? FUCK YEAH, SUPERSIZE ME!