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The Lost Continent Illyria

Some time ago our fellow RPGBlogger Philippine Gamer has posted about a D&D 4th Edition campaign setting a member of his gaming group, R. Velasco, created: “The Lost Continent Illyria – A Renaissance Magiteck Setting”.
Although (or perhaps because) I am currently working on my own project “World of Asecia”, I had to check out his work.
And I was totally blown away. The setting is only 14 pages long but it’s very well written and uses some great artwork. The PDF document almost looks like a professional roleplaying sourcebook on par with WotC’s work.
Here’s an excerpt for your convenience:

Illyria is a setting where magic, fantasy and technology exist side by side.

Magitech, Portals and Magical skyships, espers and engineers, summoners, and gunknights. Illyria is an unforgiving monarchy where the blood of dragons promote a person’s identity and social status. But still heroes arise in the name of the Queen, or in the name of the Country. Never both.

If you are looking for some setting for your D&D game or some inspiration for your campaign check it out! You won’t regret it!
Stargazer

Michael Wolf is a German games designer and enthusiast best known for his English language role-playing games blog, Stargazer's World, and for creating the free rules-light medieval fantasy adventure game Warrior, Rogue & Mage. He has also worked as an English translator on the German-language Dungeonslayers role-playing game and was part of its editorial team. In addition to his work on Warrior, Rogue & Mage and Dungeonslayers, he has created several self-published games and also performed layout services and published other independent role-playing games such as A Wanderer's Romance, Badass, and the Wyrm System derivative Resolute, Adventurer & Genius, all released through his imprint Stargazer Games. Professionally, he works as a video technician and information technologies specialist. Stargazer's World was started by Michael in August 2008.

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Pointyman2000

Hi Stargazer!

Thanks for linking to Illyria! The Author is very glad that a lot of people are enjoying his work, and he's already working on expanding his notes further. Who knows, he might release another sourcebook for the setting detailing paragon paths for Illyria too. 🙂

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Jonathan

you should nominate their post for the Anthology. I was just blown away by it.

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Wyatt

Wow, this is pretty nifty! I wish I had the wherewithal to make my Eden setting that pretty! Thanks for the link!

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Ishmayl

That is a very nice PDF, and the setting looks nice as well. I’m looking forward to his expansion of the material. Thanks for this post.

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Mad Brew

Of course, after reading the last comment on the Philippine Gamer’s site, my questions are answered… Jason CHAN.

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Mad Brew

Wow, that is pretty sweet. I wonder, did RV commission the artwork or was it "borrowed" from somewhere. I couldn't make out the artist's last name (Jason Ca##).

Very nice looking indeed.

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