Homebrew vs. Premade Campaign Worlds

[Psion]

Okay, though it looks like you are world building the "right" way, I see nothing astonishing or unusual about that. You took a cultural hook and built around it.

 

[SHARK]

Greetings!

Psion wrote--

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"Okay, though it looks like you are world building the "right" way, I see nothing astonishing or unusual about that. You took a cultural hook and built around it."
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Ummm...and your point, Psion?

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

 

[Psion]

Ummm...and your point, Psion?

Actually, I was replying to bwgwl, who alluded to some technique of worldbuilding to accomodate campaign play afterwords which I asked about. I guess I was hoping for more of an epiphany than I got.

 

[Nightfall]

I always felt ephinanies were like cholocate sundaes. The first five or so are good and filling, after that, you get underwhelmed and fattened by them!

 

[bwgwl]

So, bwgwl, do you have a website on this campaign setting? That sounds like a fun setting!

unfortunately, not yet.

currently, it's nothing more than several Word files and a handful of maps on my hard drive.

i prefer it to be in a bit more "polished" state before posting it to the web. the fact that i'm not currently running it (and won't for the forseeable future) is slowing the process considerably...

 

[bwgwl]

Actually, I was replying to bwgwl, who alluded to some technique of worldbuilding to accomodate campaign play afterwords which I asked about. I guess I was hoping for more of an epiphany than I got.

apologies for misleading you.

basically, i started with the style of campaign i wanted (something akin to the Sinbad stories in the Arabian Nights and the Harryhausen Sinbad movies), and then built the world that fit that campaign the best.

i knew i wanted the main religious turmoil between different factions of the same god instead of between different gods, necessitating a monotheistic religion.

and so on.

i'll admit, it's not much of an epiphany. i sate down and said, "what kind of campaign do i want?" and then built the world to support it.

before, i'd always built the world first and then asked, "What kind of adventures can i run here?"