We've had 8 people vote so far and we have a definite 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. All of which are really close.
I would like this thread to develop into something that the moderators of this forum would like to actually publish, even just as a free pdf.
Personally I feel, that we have a lot of talent here, and together we can flesh out this setting and make it something great.
Who knows, perhaps we'll all play this setting and make it Living True20.
Thanks for all the support and recruit more voters!!!
Robotman
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"In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon."
Albert Camus
My top three are:
A. Genre: Low-magic Fantasy Hook: A world where the afterlife is part of normal life. C. Genre: Alternate History Hook: Faerie World in 1920's E. Genre: Low Magic /Psionic Science Fiction bordering on Fantasy Hook: Futuristic and isolated domed cities Aaron Infante-Levy
D: Nordic Fantasy
F: Post-apocolyptic age of barbarism A: Fantasy where afterlife is a part of everyday life My author page
http://www.amazon.com/author/nicholastrandahl
Just an hour and a half left for voting.
I would like to take this time to mention that during the 1920's, the Tommy Gun was introduced, there was prohibition, and Jazz. Now picture that with faeries and fey beings. No one said we couldn't "push" our setting.  "In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon."
Albert Camus
The votes have been tallied!
It was really close for awhile. Here are the final standings: 20 pts
Hook: Civilization has crumbled and its an age of barbarism and decay
Hook: Isolated land of mythic creatures and a distrust of magic
Hook: Futuristic and isolated domed cities
Hook: Faerie World in 1920's A. Genre: Low-magic Fantasy Hook: A world where the afterlife is part of normal life.
Hook: Magical Revolution instead of Industrial As discussed earlier we will have a final voting round. Would like to present the following options: 1. Setting F 2. Setting D 3. Combine F&D 4. Combine F with E 5. Combine D with E I present 4 & 5 for the simple reason that E came in with a hard 3rd place, quickly beating A & C at the last moment. Lets start the process by having those individuals who presented the setting ideas above, write a quick paragraph to "pitch" the option by numbering it as shown. i.e. 3. Barbarian hordes paused at the base of the strange monument and wondered.... Once that is done we'll vote. Argh..I so wanted a Magical prohibition, not an alcoholic one. "In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon."
Albert Camus
Well I guess I'm late to the party again.
 I hope to be a bit more active in the coming weeks though, so maybe you'll see a lot more of me.
For choice F, I'm getting a real Thundarr the Barbarian vibe. 
D'oh.....
Why not take the Thundarr the Barbarian theme and riff with a Road Warrior/end of the world type of decay?
First Place? Sweet!
Ok... here is a passage from my own version of the world I had in mind... F. Genre: Low Magic / Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy Hook: Civilization has crumbled and its an age of barbarism and decay Passage: My hands trembled as I turned the time-brittle pages, ripping one half way out in my haste. This had to be the most complete documentation of ‘The Fall’ that anyone had laid eyes on in over two hundred years. The pictures alone were spellbinding. Vast cities, paved roadways and everywhere people with fat bellies and fine clothes. It looked like an impossible dream world to my eyes, and yet it had existed, right here on this very spot. The forest had long since overtaken the metropolis that now lay in ruins. That dream was now dead as the people who built it. The ancient script was much harder for me to decipher, and my eyes were not used to so much reading. I could only make out bits and pieces of information held in the tome. There was some sort of serpent death-cult, a secret society. Dark rituals were performed. An uprising happened here. Nightmares unleashed from a world beyond ours. Most of the otherworldly terrors escaped, but a venerable earth-power adept bound some of them in a great stone prison… with a magic stone seal before he was struck down by a traitorous apprentice. Wait, I’ve seen that seal in the illustration before… it was on the great door that Elanora seemed inexplicably drawn to. The one she was going to try and open. “Haniver, I think I’ve got it! Let us see what treasures the Ancients locked in this vault.” “Elanora, NO! Leave the door be. It’s not a vault, its a prison!” “What?” “Those Runes… they weren’t meant to keep thieves out. They are keeping something IN!” Matthew E. Kaiser
Freelance Writer 
Nice story! Now lets get some more, so this topic doen't die.
We still need to get the other winners to pitch their winning setting and then we'll vote. Then of course comes the fun part of fleshing it out. Lets go people! "In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon."
Albert Camus
I've been too busy and missed all this forming. I Like F with a dash of E. I am getting that Thundarr vibe, with a dash of Earthdawn, heck, even a liberal blast of PotApes & Logan's run if F&E mesh.
Imagine one of the domed cities where the walls finally breached. The initial panic and screaming gives way when people realise they aren't dead from the magical toxins. They begin to send teams out to explore the strange outside world, to send settlers and convict 'volunteers' out into the new world... DD The best SF&F bookshop ever, Slowglass Books
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You do know that RunePunk(tm) is an intellectual property of mine I've had in development for over two years for Savage Worlds?
It's vastly different, however, it began as dark magic meets steampunk and evolved into a vast city where technology and magic developed in parallel and then came a great breakthrough, a war between the two, and a section of this vast city was cast into an extradimensional space. This city, this ScatterPoint, is now a place where there is a fusion of runic energies and technologies....and something I've been doing final edits on every day for the past month, so you can imagine my surprise when I took a break and saw those words mentioned on here? 
Ahem...On to the topic at hand. I like F with D. You can use a Song of Ice & Fire as a source of inspiration, much as George R.R. Martin used the War of the Roses himself, and throw in a touch of Howard and Lovecraft. Everything can use a touch of Lovecraft, right? Once the Kingdom was at war. It was a long and bloody war over land and love and is now little more than legend and loss. Long after the rival factions destroyed each other and society crumbled, the new masters, the Wizard-Priests stepped in, ruling the people with their dark powers and forgotten gods. To the north, however, is rumored danger and salvation. Beyond the great stone wall, lies ice and snow and strange creatures among the barren reaches where the Staerk dwell, people of passion and fury, a people who it is said threw off the shackles of the Wizard-Priests themselves in ages past. More and more people are saying that the border walls were not built by the Staerk at all, as most believe, but by the Wizard-Priests themselves, to keep out the barbarians and their beasts and to protect themselves and not the people... Later, Sean
Okay. For option D this is the setting I envisioned:
Tarsk looked out over the Plains of Ice with a grim face. Snow fell softly around him from the overcast night sky as he stood tall on an evergreen-shrouded ridge, his iron claymore firmly in hand. The Skars would be coming soon. Skars were beserker warriors that lived in the Plains of Ice, the mysterious dangerous endless white fields that completely encircled the land of Asgardahl, Tarsk's home. Riding mighty mammoths and other powerful beasts, the Skars frequently raided the foothills of the small realm of Asgardahl plundering villages and murdering their inhabitants with magic. Asgardahl was a small region of high snow-capped peaks that encircled a hilly valley of conifers and icy lakes. It held numerous small villages of Asgardians but in their desperation to just survive Asgardahl's frigid climate and roving beasts the people were disconnected and suspicious. Above all things, though, the folk of Asgardahl were suspicous of magic, such as that used by the Skars. If one of their own was found to be born with magical powers the child was almost always killed. Almost. Slowley small dark shapes came into view far down on the plain. Tarsk knew the shapes for what they were, Skars on their mammoth mounts. He had nothing else for him left in his village in the mountains of Asgardahl since he was banished once it was revealed he had magic. Grimacing, Tarsk whispered a prayer to his ancestors in the halls of Vahalla, and began sprinting down the mountainside towards his doom.There you have it My author page
http://www.amazon.com/author/nicholastrandahl
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