Yeah I am always interested mixed setting worlds, but haven't been able to figure out how to do it right. I was going to lead off last night or next week with: "You fell asleep and as you woke up you realized the life you were living was just a dream as you get ready for your trip today". And then have transitions like that happen periodically, but it won't work without without a good way to tie things together in a big overarching framework, with trouble and rewards somehow following around from world to world, and somehow allowing growth to happen in a meaningful way. I really don't like the idea of simply mixing worlds together because then you just have a mess of everything being there at once (magic, tech, monsters, and so on).
Maybe I should find out more about RIFT and see how they handled it. But hmm, writing thing has given me a few more good ideas about how it could work...
There is a Trilogy I read once where there was one real world and then 12 shadow worlds that barely overlap. The trilogy followed one member of the royal family that ruled the only real world. They wielded magic and tech. Different shadow worlds had different rules. Some tech did not work, some magic did not work, some had heavier gravity, and so on.
ReplyDeleteChronicles of Amber, right?
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