Welcome to Chimaera! So a few years back, I had a fair amount of time on my hands, and a lot more creativity and imagination - and the combination of the two can lead you to wonderful places! Doodles evolve into something more, and eventually a concept, or even a world begins to develop. I still have that piece of notebook paper that began my path to my own homebrewed world; and even now it’s still evolving and changing.
Chimaera is meant to be a place with very little in the way of rules or structure - and in fact I always mean for it to be more of a ‘spirit’ of a world than anything else. I never really wanted to set any rules for it, I wanted my players to shape it, transform it. The different islands/continents were meant to be 100% different. Different cultures, different religions, some even different time-lines!
Each was to have a barrier, imagine a magical wall that looks like the Northern Lights rising out of the ocean, and that wall was meant to be a magical reset where nothing from the other continents would carry over save the players character (so no equipment or weapons or armor). That way they could move from a high fantasy game, to an oriental setting, or a post-apocalyptic setting, or even to a sci-fi one without changing who they were! And the spirit of that again sort of took off, were the center of the world (The Seven Gates) was meant to be a place where that magical reset connected from all the continents and settings and anything could be brought there (sort of as an End-Game area).
So that’s just taste of my world, with more to come!
