It is said that long ago, a great civilization dominated the known world and beyond. The world was more fertile then, and these ancients used advanced technology to fill their lives with leisure and ease. However, at some point in the distant past, a great disaster occurred, leaving the world a dry, dusty plain with little vegetation other than prairie grass.
Old ruins dot the landscape, and many inhabitants try to infiltrate them to find riches or to try and study the past. These ruins are filled with mysterious artifacts and strange technologies that few people in the modern world understand. The Forsaken Plains are inhabited by many hostile creatures, some of which are downright demonic. Terrifying ‘dark knights,’ demonic beings who are as much twisted machine as they are living flesh, roam the plains, threatening all those who are unfortunate to come across their path. Only those people wielding weapons of madness, the Knightforged Arms, can hope to challenge such beings. Such heroes call themselves gunslingers.
People in the Forsaken Plains are practical and self-reliant. They work (and play) hard, relying on grit and entertainment in equal measures. Many folk keep close to home, enjoying the local honkeytonk or passing the time with tall tales or a round of Devil’s Due. Gunslingers and drifters aren’t most folk though, and they tend to roam the plains in tight-knit posses. And there are the dreamers, those people who set out from home on a seeking fortunes or at the behest of the whispers on the wind. One cannot earn a name for themelves without a gamble, after all…
Read the full Forsaken Plains culture packet here.
This world currently has a medium population of player characters.
