We are gonna cover another Blog d100 question, courtesy of d4 caltrops fun table which I really enjoy.
Rolled 92: What was one major conflict/war in recent memory?
This is a pretty fun one! I'm actually going to use this to talk about a couple of different conflicts, one pretty fresh, the other not really in the living memory!
Drebas Civil War
The most recent one is the civil war happening in the city-state of Drebas. This is the direct result of player actions and it's still up for debate if the campaigns that are shaping Hodas will be part of the version of it that gets printed. On one hand it creates a rich world with a lot of loose ends created by players and myths left behind for anyone who gets the zines to interact with, on the other hand everyone could have a fresh Hodas to be the first legends in.
So, this civil war! Tensions between Goblins and Kobolds in Drebas have always been a little tense but the Kobolds are happy to remain in the sewers and undercity while the Goblins are happy to let the Kobolds have the dark places. Unfortunately a certain crew of pirates may have started the city down the road to a civil war. From the Kobold's perspective, a prophet of their new god told them they had a right to the surface and led them on a holy pilgrimage to take what was theirs before disappearing. Now they believe she will return to lead them in their war against the goblins someday. From the goblin perspective these Kobolds were lead by a wanted criminal to the surface based on a lie. Then, in a later game which the diary hasn't been published yet, the party enlisted the aid of Kobolds to attack a fortified position in the city. Now the Kobolds have a fortified "embassy" on the surface from which they are causing problems. I fear what happens the third time a group of PCs enter this city.
Mutually assured destruction of the gods
Another, less recent conflict and one that I try to lore dump often because it explains the greatly diminished human presence in Hodas, is the war between the old human empire and the gods. Five hundred years ago Humans used to absolutely dominate the known world. They were masters of arcane magic and granted great divine gifts by dark, twisted, elder gods. The hubris of man grew too great and they decided they no longer wanted to offer prayers to the gods but to capture and bottle them for their power. Naturally elder gods took exception to this and wiped out all humans on Hodas, save for a single city to remain as their base of worshipers. Humans, ever spiteful, decided they needed to respond in true M.A.D. fashion. They cast a spell that removed the names of the gods, their depictions, memories, and knowledge of the gods from the memory, minds, writings, and art of the entire world. Because I like gods level of influence tied to the amount of worshipers and offerings, this meant those elder gods were bared from the world. It also meant that humans effectively lost much of their understanding of magic and now their final city, Last Bastion, is a crumbling city which loses critical infrastructure every year.
This is the reason humans are so rare in Hodas and why every other race has been able to stretch their legs so much. The new gods of these races don't even come close to the power of these horrible evil gods that man used to worship and would be powerless to stop them if they existed together. Further, this allows new human gods of lesser power to slowly work their way into the setting. I've been using gods of the real world myth to slowly place their avatars and champions into the setting, using cults and divinities (while making big changes to the things I really don't like about their creative choices). Last bastion has something to say about this but that is a post for another time.
As always with these I want to highlight other people doing this challenge or just making things from that same table!
This time we have:
Types of undead from Buster over on 19 Sided Die. This is one that I also answered and love to see another person answer the same question!
Also from Buster we have "It's okay to be under prepared" where he talks about a ruling he wishes he had handled differently. He also made a fun post talking about what games he would like to run eventually "I'll run it someday"
