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<blockquote data-quote="seskis281" data-source="post: 2951006" data-attributes="member: 41593"><p>Greetings - </p><p></p><p>I am currently developing my own campaign setting and after reading various threads I wanted to put a call for ideas as to what different people like in their campaign settings - both published and home-grown. I purposefully want to avoid phrasing like "what's a good" setting because this, I think, is a matter of taste and personal opinion. My setting, titled "Ilshara - Lands of Exile" is going to be purposefully generic in terms of systems, fairly traditionally (i.e. medieval) oriented, hopefully in the spirit of the original Greyhawk or early Karameikos-style settings. That is not to say that I'm not interested in what people who like other types of settings like, as I am looking to tweak and add some differences to my "old school" approach to the setting.</p><p></p><p>As a side to this discussion I am also curious if other people find some of the "famous" settings out there too cumbersome to play in now because of too much history, too much material - when I tried to run a Dragonlance campaign I found it was impossible to escape player expectations based on most of them knowing the books by heart (they had to start at the Inn of the Last Home in Solace, they were bored with my adventures and kept wanting to meet and interact with the "famous" people like Dalamar). I think this is also true with FR (which I also think is overpowered) and, sadly now, Greyhawk.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, my thanks to opinions and thoughts any of you may wish to give as I continue writing - I have two beautiful poster-boards with color cartography finished and have been writing non-stop for several weeks!</p><p></p><p>John Maddog Wright <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite6" alt=":cool:" title="Cool :cool:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":cool:" /> </p><p></p><p>"In the immortal words of Socrates.... I drank what!?"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="seskis281, post: 2951006, member: 41593"] Greetings - I am currently developing my own campaign setting and after reading various threads I wanted to put a call for ideas as to what different people like in their campaign settings - both published and home-grown. I purposefully want to avoid phrasing like "what's a good" setting because this, I think, is a matter of taste and personal opinion. My setting, titled "Ilshara - Lands of Exile" is going to be purposefully generic in terms of systems, fairly traditionally (i.e. medieval) oriented, hopefully in the spirit of the original Greyhawk or early Karameikos-style settings. That is not to say that I'm not interested in what people who like other types of settings like, as I am looking to tweak and add some differences to my "old school" approach to the setting. As a side to this discussion I am also curious if other people find some of the "famous" settings out there too cumbersome to play in now because of too much history, too much material - when I tried to run a Dragonlance campaign I found it was impossible to escape player expectations based on most of them knowing the books by heart (they had to start at the Inn of the Last Home in Solace, they were bored with my adventures and kept wanting to meet and interact with the "famous" people like Dalamar). I think this is also true with FR (which I also think is overpowered) and, sadly now, Greyhawk. Anyway, my thanks to opinions and thoughts any of you may wish to give as I continue writing - I have two beautiful poster-boards with color cartography finished and have been writing non-stop for several weeks! John Maddog Wright :cool: "In the immortal words of Socrates.... I drank what!?" [/QUOTE]
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