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<blockquote data-quote="Bacon Bits" data-source="post: 7495484" data-attributes="member: 6777737"><p>If I were advertising this, I would call the campaign setting an alternate timeline Greyhawk set 100 years in it's future. I wouldn't muck about trying to define if it's homebrew or personalized/customized. Nobody is really interested in the semantics at that level; they're just interested in understanding what to expect from the campaign and you can't get that from a single term. All you're doing is deciding if the sea is blue or green.</p><p></p><p>Simply put, there's too much overlap between "customized Greyhawk" and "homebrew based on Greyhawk" for the distinction to be particularly meaningful. Everybody is going to interpret that distinction slightly differently regardless of the opinions here or how deeply you examine the nuance. No matter what you do you're going to have people showing up who think the setting is something that it isn't until you just give them the backstory that you're using.</p><p></p><p>That said, about twenty years ago I ran a campaign set before the Twin Cataclysms. (The PCs witnessed the Invoked Devastation and were tasked with helping to assemble the artifacts used to create the Rain of Colorless Fire.) I just called it a Greyhawk campaign, but it wasn't even set in the Flanaess. It took place in the Suloise Empire and the Baklunish Empire during the Great Migrations! I wish I still had my notes from that campaign.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bacon Bits, post: 7495484, member: 6777737"] If I were advertising this, I would call the campaign setting an alternate timeline Greyhawk set 100 years in it's future. I wouldn't muck about trying to define if it's homebrew or personalized/customized. Nobody is really interested in the semantics at that level; they're just interested in understanding what to expect from the campaign and you can't get that from a single term. All you're doing is deciding if the sea is blue or green. Simply put, there's too much overlap between "customized Greyhawk" and "homebrew based on Greyhawk" for the distinction to be particularly meaningful. Everybody is going to interpret that distinction slightly differently regardless of the opinions here or how deeply you examine the nuance. No matter what you do you're going to have people showing up who think the setting is something that it isn't until you just give them the backstory that you're using. That said, about twenty years ago I ran a campaign set before the Twin Cataclysms. (The PCs witnessed the Invoked Devastation and were tasked with helping to assemble the artifacts used to create the Rain of Colorless Fire.) I just called it a Greyhawk campaign, but it wasn't even set in the Flanaess. It took place in the Suloise Empire and the Baklunish Empire during the Great Migrations! I wish I still had my notes from that campaign. [/QUOTE]
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