> Has anyone ever played an atheistic character from God Forgot? I'm
>wishing for a character template (if there isn't one, maybe I'll make one
>up). How would such a character deal with religious types on a journey to
>Dragon Pass, say?
Since the People Whom God Forgot are said to follow the Ancient Brithini Caste rules (which they apparently learned from the God Learners), the Arolanit templates should be quite ample. They do have some unusual traits like their inventiveness which are quite Unbrithini - the God Learners exploited this to create the Machine City and Zistor.
They know that God has forgotten them and hence believe that there is no life after death. People who worship other gods are deluded fools. Hence they would share the Brithini fear of Death IMO. A journey to Dragon pass would be undertaken in a state of extreme anxiety.
> How about a campaign set in God Forgot? Any thoughts on what it
>might be like there, beyond the skimpy material already published?
A land full of technical marvels which are rarely made more than once. Patrols scout the land in orinthropters, pedalcopters and hot-air balloons. The cities are bizarre constructions wrought by building automata gone beserk. They are kept spotlessly clean by foaming water that gushes from the sewers and floods the streets before draining into the sea.
The land is rent with furrows every spring by monstrous mobile ploughs that even tear up the roads. The Talars care naught for this for they send forth the juggernaughts to remake the roads anew by flattening the earth. After the farmers have planted the seeds, they then flee from the manure spreading trebuchets. The summers are filled with dread for them for mechanical scarecrows stalk the fields creating infernal dins that would frighten even dragons. In autumn, the farmers bow down before the combines in the fields (lest they too be cut down by the whirling scythes) and spend the rest of the season picking up the sheaves for no-one has invented the trailer.
The only part visited by outsiders now is the infamous Casino Town where people lose money. One can visit the rest of God Forgot from Casino Town but people rarely do so. The chief reason is a horde of rogue one-armed bandits that dwells outside the Town demanding to be fed with coins. Those that do not satisfy their hunger are beaten to death with their arms.
All IMO.
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