bobcat_grad
First Post
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 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, cultures, events, politics, heroes, villains, etc. We wanted to shape a world from the ground up; picking and choosing what appeals to us and adding elements of our own to make it our own.
This is something we kicked around for a while now, but I decided to take the first step to get it going. But shortly after starting, I realized that as much fun as I was having with letting my imagination run, there was a vast, untapped resource for good ideas out there: everyone else who plays D&D.
So, I created a blog site to start tracking the progress of this project at Help Build A D&D World and would like to open up the project to everyone interested. After getting some suggestions and feedback, it seemed like a wiki was a better place to track information about the world, so that's underway now at Tangia - A D&D World Wiki
Included at the wiki and blog are maps, rough descriptions of continents and nations, a rough layout of the pantheon, a listing of the races in the world, and more. Additionally, there are forums for discussion on idea about Tangia at Help Build A D&D World: Forums
If you have an idea about a place or setting you've always kicked around or something you've been using for years and think it should have a permanent place in a world, let us know. I want this to be a community effort to build out a world that we can all contribute to, play in, and watch grow.
We've gotten some contributors already, and we're looking for more.
Stop by for a minute and see if there is anything that catches your interest. Creative minds are more than welcome and encouraged.
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, cultures, events, politics, heroes, villains, etc. We wanted to shape a world from the ground up; picking and choosing what appeals to us and adding elements of our own to make it our own.
This is something we kicked around for a while now, but I decided to take the first step to get it going. But shortly after starting, I realized that as much fun as I was having with letting my imagination run, there was a vast, untapped resource for good ideas out there: everyone else who plays D&D.
So, I created a blog site to start tracking the progress of this project at Help Build A D&D World and would like to open up the project to everyone interested. After getting some suggestions and feedback, it seemed like a wiki was a better place to track information about the world, so that's underway now at Tangia - A D&D World Wiki
Included at the wiki and blog are maps, rough descriptions of continents and nations, a rough layout of the pantheon, a listing of the races in the world, and more. Additionally, there are forums for discussion on idea about Tangia at Help Build A D&D World: Forums
If you have an idea about a place or setting you've always kicked around or something you've been using for years and think it should have a permanent place in a world, let us know. I want this to be a community effort to build out a world that we can all contribute to, play in, and watch grow.
We've gotten some contributors already, and we're looking for more.
Stop by for a minute and see if there is anything that catches your interest. Creative minds are more than welcome and encouraged.
