bySwarm - built from your creativity and imagination

About

Submitted by protoswarm on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 21:43

The idea behind bySwarm is to collaboratively build an RPG setting using the web site community, which we call the Swarm. As writers, artists, and other community members contribute content to the setting, their submissions will be rated by the community which will earn the contributors recognition within the Swarm and potentially the larger gaming community.

Featured Stories

And the winner is...

Submitted by protoswarm on Sun, 02/28/2010 - 19:10

After months of writing, discussion and debate, we now know the first setting to be built by the Swarm! Our first project will be the construction of Dark Golden Age, a concept created by Satyr.

Past news

Post your concept review today! posted 2 weeks 2 days ago
Setting submissions closed, reviews closing February 27 posted 2 weeks 3 days ago
Final day for Setting Concepts! posted 2 weeks 4 days ago
Setting Concept Countdown - 6 days posted 3 weeks 3 days ago
bySwarm update - Only 13 days to go! posted 4 weeks 3 days ago

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Pathfinder

Started by mikeb

Last comment posted 1 day 13 hours ago

Use this forum to discuss Pathfinder....
Burning Wheel

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Use this forum to discuss Burning Wheel.
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Further Setting Development: The Dark Golden Age

Started by Satyr

Last comment posted 1 day 13 hours ago

Let's start with something very, very simple:...

Dark Golden Age

Dark Golden Age is a new RPG setting being built collaboratively by the Swarm.

For centuries, the world of the Dark Golden Age was ruled by wizards and spellcasters. But since magic comes in tides, ages of high magic and ages of low magic alternate and the current Age of High magic has come to grinding halt. Old structures of authority around powerful wizard-potentates collapse, and new groups strive for power. The old magocracy makes place for new kingdoms. The mundane majority which was subjugated for centuries rise again and sheds the joke of their former masters, technological developments which were hold back for centuries through the wizard’s dominance blossom up, while the sheer wonder of magic shrivels.

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12/27/2009 - mikeb has started blogging the bySwarm effort at posterous.byswarm.com or our Facebook page.