The World of Cheos
Long ago I created Cheos, a world for a Dungeons and Dragons game. It's a different take on the typical fantasy world. The mythical cratures are all half animal, half human. The monsters are all genetic nightmares. There is magic and science in this world.
I decided to put it online here for help building it into a real, breathing, dynamic world. I got the idea from the World of Korio blog for my teacher's anthology class.
Here's the deal. It is a shared world. Anybody can create within the guidelines I will post there. But I am the final arbiter of what is "real" on Cheos. Anybody can use the stuff from the world for thier games. I intend to write stories based on Cheos. If you post an idea on the blog, then you are accepting that it is OK for me to use it in a book. So if you are willing to help, let's create a world.
Here is the concept of the World of Cheos.
Millinea ago, there was a great war between wizard kings that destroyed the world. These wizards and thier minions created warriors by blending humans with animals. There were thousands of types of of these "blendings" but only a few have survived. The war devestated humanity, barely 20,000 true humans were left. Some of the blended races survived and eventually thrived. The rest could not sustain thier populations and died off. Thousands of years passed before the world healed itself from the destruction of the war. Now there are new civilizations and new wonders. All D&D realms have humans. In other D&D worlds humans are the most prolific of the races. That is not the case here. Since all the races are descended from humans they breed and die at the same rate (unless war, disease and famine take thier toll). The other races are all specific human-animal hybrids. There are Elves, Dwarves, Trolls, Ogres, Orcs, Goblins, Kobolds, Gnomes, Merfolk and Pixies. I am open to other races, but these are what I started with.
The Orcs of Cheos
- The Orcs of Cheos are part man, part razorback hog. Males have huge tusks and females have little ones. Orcs vicious natured people and will kill at the slightest provocation. Orcs are the thugs of Cheos. They have little morality and very little regard for law. Their society is like the Mongol hordes that sacked Rome.
Orcs get a -2 to intelligence and a -1 to wisdom and charisma. They get a bonus +2 to strength and +2 to constitution.
A few facts about Orcs.
- Male Orcs are arrogant.
- Orcs think of themselves as better than any other race.
- Orcs are thugs and thieves by nature.
- Orcs cannot be Rangers or Paladins.
- Orcs are not that smart, they think they are, but they aren’t.
- Orcs are greedy
- Orcs love a fight, especially a one sided fight.
- Orcs cannot do more than simple arithmetic.
- Orcs eat their food raw.
- Orcs hate Kobolds with a raw unaldurated passion!
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