Help Create a Campaign Setting

Eanwulf · Post by **Eanwulf** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:06 am

I wanted to take the time to develop a thread in which we, the mob, take the time to help create an ideal campaign setting - a setting based off of what the majority of us have chosen to create. Far be it from me to brag about anything I am capable of, but I do seem to have an uncanny ability to create a lot of something from hardly nothing. This being said I wanted to ask each of you to start posting what it is you like to and would want to play in, game-wise, on this thread to give me a general idea of what you like. I will then start creating various polls which will help us to create our ideal game setting. I thank you in advance for you support and comments.

Rob aka Wulf

Post by **Shurijo** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:11 am

What genre? Sci-fi, fantasy, modern, etc.?

Eanwulf · Post by **Eanwulf** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:14 am

To help start things off, I will go ahead and let you all know what I enjoy playing as well as running.

I love gritty realistic-feeling games set in a medival fantasy setting. I also enjoy modern survival horror and/or mercenary based games. Gothic horror and/or Victorean Fantasy is also to my liking as is super hero and/or realistically based sci-fi settings. I enjoy meshing together our own existing world with potential fantasy/futuristic settings as well such as gothic horror within an alternate earth timeline.

JohnnyWeird · Post by **JohnnyWeird** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:16 am

Yeah, we'll need either one or several categories of game to post in. I can answer this question 4 different ways off the top of my head; 8 if we expand to what I'd want to run.

Eanwulf · Post by **Eanwulf** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:20 am

Shurijo wrote:What genre? Sci-fi, fantasy, modern, etc.?

That is what we will be determining via general input and in turn polls. Think of it a lot like when Wizards had the public create a new monster.

Post by **Trogdor** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:34 am

Is this something to take the place of the Golden Age game?

JohnnyWeird · Post by **JohnnyWeird** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:38 am

If we're just hunting lice with a shotgun, I guess I'll pop out a shell:

Playing:
1. Steampunk/Clockpunk alternate history (with or without fantastic elements)
2. BlackOps style supernorms fighting paranormal baddies
3. Mid-to-High-level D&D
4. Supers, all types
5. Space Opera (I'm a baritone!)

In all of these I appreciate roleplaying over roll-playing. A game can be combat-intensive and still give lots of time for characters to be personal and deep, or it can be the cotillion and have as much depth as a coffee stain.

Running:
1. Mieville-style gaslamp fantasy
2. Supers, post-Golden Age
3. Bronze-Age mythic heroism
4. Terror-Horror (more on this, possibly, on the con thread)

In all of these, numbers need to be backed by a person, not just a character.

In general, I feel a lot of people say 'gritty' when they mean an different word that rhymes. Players are heroes, and they should be challenged instead of hamstrung. Realistic is less important to me than fun in most cases, since this just makes things, well, 'grittier'.

More later: Rush at work.

Eanwulf · Post by **Eanwulf** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:44 am

Trogdor wrote:Is this something to take the place of the Golden Age game?

No the Golden Age game is still up and running. I was primarily trying to get some more appropriate tokens and map items but the time to do so just doesnt seem to be there so I will be continuing on as best as humanly possible.

This was more of a passing thought and to give me something to think about at work.

Post by **Trogdor** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:50 am

JohnnyWeird wrote:Playing:
1. Steampunk/Clockpunk alternate history (with or without fantastic elements)
2. BlackOps style supernorms fighting paranormal baddies
3. Mid-to-High-level D&D
4. Supers, all types
5. Space Opera (I'm a baritone!)

These all sound good to me. Johnny, I like the way you think.

JohnnyWeird wrote:In all of these I appreciate roleplaying over roll-playing. A game can be combat-intensive and still give lots of time for characters to be personal and deep, or it can be the cotillion and have as much depth as a coffee stain.

Agreed.

JohnnyWeird wrote:Running:
1. Mieville-style gaslamp fantasy
2. Supers, post-Golden Age
3. Bronze-Age mythic heroism

Yay for all of these ideas! They would be on the tops of my list too.

JohnnyWeird wrote:In general, I feel a lot of people say 'gritty' when they mean an different word that rhymes. Players are heroes, and they should be challenged instead of hamstrung. Realistic is less important to me than fun in most cases, since this just makes things, well, 'grittier'.

Hear, hear!

Post by **Vardaen** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:50 am

You guys can use the d20 Workshop area for this project if its a d20 game setting. That's why we made it!

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