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I just read this post after completing my last reply I think my comprehension regarding settings vs settings affecting standard game-play events is starting to dawn. What I took away from that last is that re-skinning cities and gods and coins is OK if the re-skins have varying impacts on the...

Ok, Good input. Thank you GrahamWillis. So, what I'm hearing is that (based on the examples given: space/planar exploration and military expedition, defining a setting for play etc...), it's a matter of choosing a unique Mode + Scenario that answers 'What is the Game". Other options could be...

So, I'm reading one of John Four's recent 'Role-Playing Tips' emails which details World-Building In Five Steps (showed up in my email on May 14th 2018). Each step is a question to be answered and the first step is "What is the Game?" and it's the only one I'm confused about. Here's what is...

All of the above are really good suggestions. Thank you! And the more tip-off methods the merrier particularly because if the PC's don't get the first hint, or the second, maybe the third, surely the fourth... :p

Sounds like you've got a great lead on the 'Hero's Journey'. Just continue to carry it through and you should find some inspiration... You've got the Ordinary World, the World of Athas. The druid has received The Call to adventure with her sublime encounter. Next is the Refusal, but I've...

Good suggestions... I'm still writing the plot arch so there is no player or even a game yet. I have not dropped any hints nor is anything written in stone. I had an idea to implement a BBEG in the campaign: A lich who successfully hides behind the public mask of a cruel but effective elderly...

How do the PC's find out about the Evil Wizard/Lich who hides behind a veil of legitimacy? I'm trying to avoid the cliched "'self-reveal' -> throw mooks in the PC's path -> escape" scenario. And I find it rather anti-climatic for the PC's to be told by a patron or mentor "The cruel Judge...

I think I've found a way to satisfy my dilemma so I don't have to back it up and I can put them at the gateway to adventure... I didn't think I'd be able to put it together tightly enough, give the setting the feel for who they are and where they came from in something that didn't break...

Thanks folks for that advice. It's a broad spectrum of stuff I thought I'd have to do, stuff I thought I should do, and a confirmation on my apprehension that, for some players, this all may be for naught. It also made me realize that the info packet i do present to the players should be...

I don't have players yet, and I don't know who they will be, but I'm on the verge of starting up a home-brew D&D campaign setting I've developed. But I have a dilemma: How do you get your players to create characters within the context of the setting when it's a Home-Brew? The players have...

I've compiled a few 3rd and 3.5 about the para-elemental ooze and made some up based off what was published in various cannon resources. Things like native ooze creatures, gelatinous templates, ooze elementals, ooze weirds, but I've never seen or considered a 'genasi' from the plane. Ooze stuff...

Yes, players have occasionally gravitated to one faction or another (for survival, if nothing else). I don't play them up to be unlikeable; the factions mostly come off as xenophobic labeling all non-cyndiceans as "Xenics" and treating the the PC's with caution and skepticism at first. Once...

Thanks again, bud. Your stuff has helped me a lot. It's refreshing to see a new angle. We have a lot of similarities in our takes on the factions. I basically divided them based upon what they would see a 'New Cyndicea' look like and making them so different, that there was *no way* they...

This is amazing stuff. Thank you for sharing it. You've simplified the dynamic between the three quite nicely and yet, made them so distinct. One last important thing... I see you lured them deeper in the adventure with the threat of thirst and starvation, but what kept them there? How did...

Ok, here's picking yer brain... What justification did you have for the 3 factions to not be working together? A difference in dogmatic principles seemed too flimsy in the face of cultural extinction. You'd have thought they'd have thought to work together before. What could the adventurers...

That's excellent stuff! I too tried to give each of the factions a real reason NOT to work with each other and by making them distinctive and having their own agendas and ways. It seems you've conveyed those distinctions in only a few sentences within a few paragraphs! I'd find myself going on...

I hear ya. And thanks for the input! Yeah, I'm going whole hog with fleshing out the various factions and trying to bring them to life beyond the outlines the original modules gave them. I've gone off the deep end with the other two factions and I wanted to give the Sisters of Madarua equal...

Howdy folks, I was hoping to tap into your think tank... I'm doing research for my labor-of-love project, a fully fleshed out, system neutral, modular campaign setting based on the Basic D&D adventure, B4: The Lost City. I'm here because I'm interested in hearing other players and DM's...

Pretty sage stuff for 24 hrs! Seems like some fine seeds to plant in the garden of my mind. Thanks again, folks.

How can you present the BBEG to the party and ensure his escape without 'railroading' the players into that end-scenario (that the BBEG gets away)? OR, how do I use a BBEG as a tool, and not a killable punching bag? This question arises because I'd like to write a story where the BBEG...