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1 year ago ::
Apr 15, 2012 - 11:56AM
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How many people here play in their own individually designed campaign world?
Or do you prefer to play straight out of DnD licensed campaign worlds?
My group plays in our own campaign world that my wife and I have been working on for 13 or so years now. I do allow players to add to the world but it usually works as a collaboration with me shaping their ideas so they get what they want but it stays consistent and true with our world.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 15, 2012 - 11:59AM
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I build a world for each campaign. It's one of the things I enjoy the most.
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Reflavoring: the change of flavor without changing any mechanical part of the game, no matter how small, in order to fit the mechanics to an otherwise unsupported concept.
Retexturing: the change of flavor (with at most minor mechanical adaptations) in order to effortlessly create support for a concept without inventing anything new.
Houseruling: the change, either minor or major, of the mechanics in order to better reflect a certain aspect of the game, including adapting the rules to fit an otherwise unsupported concept.
Homebrewing: the complete invention of something new that fits within the system in order to reflect an unsupported concept. Ideas for 5ESpoiler:
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1 year ago ::
Apr 15, 2012 - 12:16PM
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A world for each campaign? Wow. That's a lot of work
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1 year ago ::
Apr 15, 2012 - 12:21PM
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A world for each campaign? Wow. That's a lot of work
Nah. It depends on the level of detail required. Remember that for people like me, what's not seen or isn't influenced by the players effectively does not exist. Much like what is just beyond the stage of a movie.
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Reflavoring: the change of flavor without changing any mechanical part of the game, no matter how small, in order to fit the mechanics to an otherwise unsupported concept.
Retexturing: the change of flavor (with at most minor mechanical adaptations) in order to effortlessly create support for a concept without inventing anything new.
Houseruling: the change, either minor or major, of the mechanics in order to better reflect a certain aspect of the game, including adapting the rules to fit an otherwise unsupported concept.
Homebrewing: the complete invention of something new that fits within the system in order to reflect an unsupported concept. Ideas for 5ESpoiler:
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1 year ago ::
Apr 15, 2012 - 12:32PM
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I always play my own campaign worlds; one of them is so fully developed I'm thinking about making it into a book. However, if I'm feeling a bit lazy when designing a world, I will "borrow" the maps of published settings and change everything but the geography.
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so why even play a fighter if you can play the paladin the exact same way behaviorally and get added power to boot. "Paladin" is about accepting better game-enhancing mechanics at the price of more rigid in game behavior.
Really? So it goes something like this?
Fighter: "I want to be a paladin."
NPC: "Really?"
Fighter: "Yes."
NPC: "Very well." Starts reading from a holy book while still in-character "Do you accept having to choose and stick to the lawful good alignment, eventhough neither of us actually knows that it exists or what it is?"
Fighter: "I do."
NPC: "Do you reject good game balance because you accidentally rolled a high Charisma?"
Fighter: "What?"
NPC: "I don't know what it means either."
Fighter: "Oh. Umm, ok I do."
NPC: "In the name of all that is metagamey and broken, accept these better game enhancing mechanics."
Fighter: "These what?"
NPC: "Just get out there and try to fulfill a million different people's notion of good while not violating and part of any of them."
So the system is designed such that every single hit needs to be described to avoid confusion? Here's a scenario. The players are nudists, everybody in the world are nudists, it's not weird, it's totally normal in this land. They are naked and they fight drakes taking damage throughout, but healing up with surges. Later they meet the guy who raised the drakes.
Part 1: I didn't describe any of the hits. What does he see?
Part 2: Lets say I described the drakes as biting the players, yet they healed up. What does he see?
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1 year ago ::
Apr 15, 2012 - 12:32PM
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I have a big homebrew campaign setting called En'Gha that I've run many campaigns in, but we still switch it up every once in a while. At this point, it has so much history that it's hard to add new things to it, but we can always find an excuse somehow. It's why I almost never buy DMs that say "X doesn't fit in my campaign setting". That sounds like your own fault, because I'm sure that it could fit just fine if you tried. After 531 in-game years of nobody on En'Gha ever having heard of a Revenant, we just fit one into the setting pretty seamlessly.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 15, 2012 - 12:49PM
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I tend to build a new world for each campaign, too. I also prefer to play in homebrewed worlds over licensed ones.
I could see making one world and keeping it for a decade or two if I were playing with the same people for that time, but I have not had the chance.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 15, 2012 - 1:00PM
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Same as TheMormegil here. I usually make every campaign have its own world.(I try and right as much backstory as possible, but its not unusual for me to use a "great disaster" that lead to the loss of a lot of historical data.) Though for the next two campaigns I'm planning on running Planescape and then Forgotten Realms respectively.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 15, 2012 - 2:16PM
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I've created two full worlds...one was semi-finished but died after a few years, the other was incredibly detailed but got folded into Greyhawk in our home rule edition.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 15, 2012 - 2:18PM
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I usually make my own world. However, I would love to play Planescape again.
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