[an unfinished sandbox]
A 5e D&D World and campaign setting
Like Krynn, has own Alignment scheme:
Alignment: NG is the middle. LE and CE are the poles:
CE-CN-CG-NG-LG-LN-LE
There is no TN. And NE is outside and beyond the poles of both CE and LE
Most ordinary people are LN (bourgeois) or CN (zzonga-addicts and petty criminals). Clergy of Pelor--seemingly the Good God--are mostly LN. There are very few NG people.
3 Bodily Attibutes: STR, DEX, CON
3 Soul-Spiritual Attributes: INT, WIS>Perception, CHA (Bearing)
Graz'zt = Lucifer
Mephistopheles = Ahriman
Tharizdun = Sun Demon
Pelor not really the Sun God. Is Mephistophelean deception. Another. Momo.
Has D&D versions of Anthro figures, under different names:
~Elrond/Aristotle
~Aragorn/Zarathustra
~Frodo/Rosenkreutz
~Glorfindel/Goethe
~White Council/Masters of Wisdom and Harmony
Near-Earth setting like Aerth and 7th Sea
Races:
Men (Mensh)
Varieties of Menshen: Drughu with pointed ears, Atlantean, Jagger-style Olven-blooded?
Eladrin/High Elves = enobled humanity (result of humane wisdom)
Orcs = debased humanity
Hierarchies and Monsters:
Astral Devas (=Lunar Devas)
Planetars (Planetary Cholas)
Solar Devas
Sphinx
Sylphs, Undines, Gnomes, Salamanders
"Bolshevik" Satyrs beyond Volga
D&D Teotl (Atzanteotl) and Eastern Tao (Sargonnas)
Lemuria
Pistis Sophia. Kwan Ying = aspect
Is really D&D. Fitting features selected from various D&D worlds.
Adventure Path:
Imminent incarnation of Mephistopheles
Graz'zt main enemy at first, then ally to fight Mephistopheles
Achieve Threefold Kingdom at end, begin new calendar: the Fifth Age
Cosmologies:
In Fourth Edition Reality: Mortal World (=Physical World), Elemental Chaos (=Etheric World), Astral Sea (=Astral World), Astral Dominions (=Spiritland/Devachan)
In Third Edition Reality (has own unique cosmology)
In Second Edition Reality (how to relate to Great Wheel? or not relate? not grey neutral at middle)
In First Edition Reality
In Classic Reality
Uses classic anthro fonts, illustrations, and graphic design
Lesser Gods = Angeloi
Intermediate Gods = Archangeloi
Greater Gods = Archai
Overgods = Exousiai (Elohim); Like Lord Ao of Forgotten Realms, Lady of Pain, Io in the draconic cosmology, Dark Powers of Ravenloft, Old Ones of Mystara, and High God of Krynn.
PCs become Gods, and then Overgods (Elohim). Then game becomes Worldbuilding.
Campaign Setting Name:
The Coming Day?
The Fifth Age?
Mephistopheles' Anvil (or name of adventure path?)
Name of planet?
Erde? Estimatia?
See Neverending Story, Blue Rose
Read Dawnwatchers novel
Classes:
Esoterist/Occultist (three Classes: First Class, Second Class, Third Class)
Harry Potter-style wizard teachers like Waldorf teachers
A class equivalent to Eurythmist (see Blue Rose's Spirit Dancer)
A class equivalent to Goethean Scientist
Spacial Dynamic martial artist
Biodynamic druid-farmer
A class equivalent to CC Priest
A class equivalent to Templars (Knights of Solamnia-style; 7th Sea Knights of the Rose and Cross)
Plus the usual Fighter, Rogue, etc.
Take best names from other settings for key cultures:
Vos = Russians
Barovic peoples = Slavic
Hule = Turkey
Uniform Markets of Atzan ("In Teotl we Trust"); orog military; jaguar and eagle knights
The Soyuz of Single-Issue Collectivities (broke up recently? or still there since still exists in Soul World? no, broke up so Mephistopheles can come); CE bear-satyrs.
Rare Bellayne? Rare Anuire? Rare Cormyr?
Campaign starts with Dragonlance Chronicles-style adventure path: Mephistopheles' Anvil
beginning of War of the Lance and the Return of the Gods = beginning of Coming of the Threefold Kingdom (the Kingdom)
"The Chief" = Head of U.M.A.
"The Boss" = Mephistopheles
medieval/renaissance pulp, with modern tropes
depicts a "Soul World" version of Earth
Use Open Game Rules; select most fitting 5e rules modules
Offer through Waldorf book outlets?
Actual anthrop. lectures are books in that setting, but with proper names changed.
Design Goal: All Anthroposophical lectures and Waldorf storybooks could take place in some part of this world.
Maybe start with:
D&D/OGL rpg for the world of Auragole's Journey
Then Dawnwatchers?
The Fetching of Spring (by a eurythmist; other books by Reg Down)
World of Waldorf picture books?
Neverending Story? Also "Legends of Fantasica" book series. Other Ende books? Momo?
C.H. Budd's Columbia?
Owen Barfield's fiction? Night Operation sci-fi
Narnia? Middle-earth? C. Williams?