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Manila - Capital of Luzon. Renaming to Luconia.
Indigenous people: Aeta, Bicolano, Ibanag, Igorot, Ilokano, Kapampangan, Pangasinan, Tagalog

Cebu - Capital of Visayas. Renamed to Kabisayan
Indigenous people: Ati, Visayan (Aklanon, Capiznon, Caluyanon, Hiligaynon, Karay-a, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Boholano, Eskaya, Waray

Davao - Capital of Mindanao. Mindanao is renamed to Gran Molucca
Indigenous people: Bajau, Visayan (Butuanon, Surigaonon), Lumad (Kamayo, Manobo, Tasaday, T'boli), Moro (Maguindanao, Maranao)

Old Dragon Joined: 23 Mar 2007 Posts: 413 Location: Limbo

As I said, Filipino can be used as a common language in our world, but there are others that ... it will still be Filipino-centric if you have the Philippines as the setting of your campaigns. Major plots might even revolve there, but not to the exclusion of other cultures that might be existing in the world.

I certainly want a taste of that Orange Juice. Coz I wanna know where Gran Molucca came from (I'm sorry I've never heard it before.) Laughing

Old Dragon Joined: 23 Mar 2007 Posts: 413 Location: Limbo

Great contributions so far. Now it would be interesting if we all have write-ups for the names... Very Happy

I read it before in my Phil map but didn't know what it meant. In wiki article it is Mindanao's old name.

There are Philippines histories in wiki that are news to me. Ever heard of Luzon Empire?

And the orange juice is mine mine mine all mine! Hahahahaha! Twisted Evil

My opinion on the matter is; trying to make godstone filipino-centric is as difficult as fitting a star-shaped block onto a square hole. I say we keep it to the elves and some dwarves, perhaps most fae, but not make it a universal thing.

ADD: That said, we could still have notable individuals with "Filipino heritage". Special characters may be derived from popular Philippine myths.

Old Dragon Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Posts: 431

i guess so, so elves get the whole filipino theme, but what about dwarves? will we make them filipino-esque too? or maybe another influence?

Dwarves = Scottish themed
Orcs = Aboriginal or Tribal African
Illumian = French (why? it just looks good for Illumians to have a French accent Laughing

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and while we're at it, let's make half-elves german! Smile

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Also should we design our own race? I mean from this setting?

We're designing a 4.0 setting. Let's not mention illumians 'til they're statted in 4.0, I think.

And as a general rule, we don't just say, "this race will be made after this country"; we theme them, and then if we find inspiration from one country, we say it.

What I'm trying to say is, agreeing the Orcs will be Jamaican, for example, doesn't actually get us closer to imagining how the Orcs look/act/feel/live. Be more descriptive with your suggestions.

And racial stereotyping should not get out of this forum.

Why are you quoting yourself revan? Missed your medications? Razz

Kidding aside, I take that we are de-emphasizing the supernaturals. Which prolly means that we will be focusing on the mundane world. Mundane world meaning the material plane and its physics. If I understand correctly, magic is a fair game as long as its source is mundane (meaning not from other planes, gods, etc)?

1. Lol. Now it became a double post. Laughing

2. In contrast to high magic world (lord of the rings, harry potter) is this also is a low magic world (conan)? Default D&D is assumed to be high magic.

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Someone from WotC said that the powers system is flexible enough to give room for low magic/no magic campaigns. I'm not sure how that'll work yet, but if that is so, then that idea is a viable (good, even) option.

That said, I am not a fan of low-magic games.

I think he means de-emphasizing the divine world and focusing the physical world.

Ninja'd. Okay, but I'm getting off-topic here. Let me start a new thread, and let's keep this as the Fil-esque discussion.

As more and more info regarding 4e are released:

*The Eladrin are a good representative of the playable fey creature. They will be a good choice if you want to play up the diwata.

*Elves are tied to the wood. Let's just give them a few seafaring abilities/racial feats and they will still be good datu.

*The panday might not be as well-put for the dwarves. i'm still thinking. In any case, they'll do for now.

I am currently designing my own campaign setting for 4e. This will be the setting that I will use for the first 4e game that I'll DM. Filipino elements abound.

Perhaps this is selfish, but I am proposing that Filipino elements be minimized for Godstone, to prevent too much overlap with my material.

Viking dwarves? Any thoughts?

lol viking dwarves XD

I honestly don't know. Maybe they could work.

Unfortunately, it's a little cliche. I can't seem to run into dwarves who are not Scottish/Irish/Norse/Germanic. Russian-themed is actually a little underused. But Norse dwarves are kinda the default.

Unless by Viking, you meant sea-faring coastal raiders? Imagining a dwarf ship is...interesting/laughable/fascinating.

Yes I meant sea-faring coastal raiders. That are dwarves. On a dwarven ship. They live on a floating something on the sea. Then maybe they mine the land below.

You have dwarven vikings, dwarven pirates, and dwarven miners on the sea. Why mine the land below? Maybe the mountains are out of resource. Or they were moved out by kobolds Twisted Evil

. Why raid? They need land-based supplies. Why can't they trade? Maybe some dwarves can, some can't, because of their reputation.

Also, how about flying kobolds? I'm still fascinated by these flying little lizards. If airship/s is/are not available then how about kobolds with mechanical wings. Or kobolds on kite. That harvest clouds. And lightings. And thunders.

I like the flying kobolds idea. Remember how we wanted to use Kleo's ship? I intend to do more with that.

But back on topic, yeah, let's tone down the Filipinoisms then. While I lament the opportunity to play around with an RP themed setting, that's already BJ's turf.

Old Dragon Joined: 23 Mar 2007 Posts: 413 Location: Limbo

Again, I believe that we aren't limited to Filipino here... but RP themed will be interesting and (I believe) would have a far different feel from Bulan because of the nature of the plane itself...