Pre-Game

     The background for the campaign was designed using the Microscope system. Which admittedly I was very concerned about. I have been playing rpg's for going on 30yrs, yep life time geek that's me. And until now I never quite realized the control issues I had about my games. I very concerned about what could come about by just turning the history of the 'world' over to my trusted GM and the rest of my fellow players. As it turns out... Its awesome !! I am very pleased with the outcome as a player and a GM, I can with confidence fully endorse what Microscope has done as far as world building. We will be using the Action Card System for the actual game play. It is a Home Brew system that my very good friend Lowell Francis has been building and testing for a number of years now.

    In a nut-shell, the background of the game world is that the world itself was shattered by a mage some many years ago and the world as we know it now consist of a number of independent floating city-islands. These city-islands have in recent time began to fall thus killing all of the people living on them. So in desperation the various kingdoms have begun building great 'arks' and sky ships to survive on. A secondary development is that in their search to find a way to keep their Island from fall out of the sky a group of mages discovered that by summoning other-world elementals and through a process could convert them to a power source and then used to continue to keep their cities aloft. Unfortunately a "side-effect" of this being converted to a power source the elementals were killed. (go figure) Well as if matters weren't bad enough for the various kingdoms, Lord Sunforge, the master of the other-world elementals has come to this world with vengeance on his mind and now he and his armies are hunting all who lived here.

    So it is with all of these things going on the few peoples of this world will ban together in a rag-tag fleet of sky ships and arks to press forward into unknown territories fleeing Lord Sunforge and their failing islands. They don't know what lies beyond the great Storm Barriers that have long separated the various sections of their world from each other.