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So...yeah. I DM'd my group's campaign for a year and took the creative world building from the game table and into a novel. My only regret - writing has taken up all of my free time. Haven't had the chance to play a game in close to six months. I used to visit EN World two, three times a day...

In the game I'm running - the party will be hitting a rather larger city in the next few sessions. They'll be getting there at the time of a festival of the war god - and in my campaign, when there are festivals for gods, the temple holds competitions for the populace. In the past, I've run...

Made one more update to fix a few bugs and added a few new features (available in the first post in the thread - the V3 one): 1. You can type in a city name prior to generating a city and it will use the name of the city in different parts of the description: Redpointe is located in a mucky...

It depends on the DM and how honest he is. By that I mean, is he playing the monsters as though they are the monsters (stupid monsters make bad tactical decisions while smart ones don't) or is he playing a game of chess against the players? If DMs and players focus on staying in character with...

Currently playing this guy in a short side adventure in our group while we take a break from my campaign. I started with the idea I wanted a pirate type character, and ran with it. Basically, a Half-Orc Hybrid Rogue (Brutal Scoundral)/Warlord with the Sword Coast Corsair paragon path - he's...

Uploaded a new version of the city builder (it's the V2 version in the original post). If anyone has any suggestions or finds any errors, let me know. Here are a few sample versions of the new output: City Size: Settlement Region Type: Forest Climate Type: Continental Sub-Climate Type: Wet...

Okay - I added recent events. (and the ability to turn them on/off, as well as the ability to include inn & temple count in the text). The recent events (depending on what they are) may take into account city size, region type, climate type, prosperity level, criminal activity level, wall type...

That's a great idea, actually. I guess I need to start brainstorming on what types of events could be created and figure a way to tie them to the region, climate, criminal level, prosperity level, professions, guilds, landmarks, etc.

Thanks. Glad you like it. I noticed a few mistakes with some of the output - I'll fix and update. Any features you'd like to see added? Anything else a city should have?

I started a community world-building project a couple of weeks ago (blog details on that at Help Build A D&D World while the wiki holding all of the world information is at Tangia - A D&D World Wiki). Once we got going on some of the basic world details (countries, regions, climates, high level...

I freely admit that I posted this in the Places & Plots forum, but as the traffic there is much, much lighter, I decided to chance it and post the opening post here (with modifications) My play group and I have had discussions in the past about growing our own world from scratch. Something that...

No one needs to be a wiki master to add ideas. If you're the guy that added the stuff about the Kingdom of Torland and the Pirate Lords, those are great ideas. I put what you had in the format I came up with for the nations an at some point, when I get working on those two maps, I'll add the...

That's a good idea, and something I'm going to touch on a little - already kinda did with the history behind The Oaken Duchies: "Centuries past, this area was known as The Oaken Kingdom. The dukes of the kingdom suffered greatly under the tyrannical rule of three generations of the Rathburn...

Content. Here's part of the first post I have there: I had read the advice out there about world building. Don't take on too much at once. Start small and expand out. Much of what that advice said made perfect sense (and I intend to follow). But I wanted the place to be cohesive and not...

My play group and I have had discussions in the past about growing our own world from scratch. Something that we all contribute to an we all use as a setting for our adventures. When one of us picks up the mantle of DM, we would have a world to work with where we are writing the history...

So it would seem... thanks!

My play group and I have had discussions in the past about growing our own world from scratch. Something that we all contribute to an we all use as a setting for our adventures. When one of us picks up the mantle of DM, we would have a world to work with where we are writing the history...

During a skill challenge my players are currently in the middle of, the need to sneak around a town to locate some captives. There are statioary sentries and roaming ones, too. As they go from building to building trying to find the captives, part of the challenge is to move quietly. What I...

When I put together parcels, I always like to mix it up when it comes to the non-item treasure. The DMG gives some rough guidelines for art objects, gems, and other stuff to include besides just gold, but that takes some time up that I’d rather spend on the details of the campaign. So, I...