D&D General Does you campaign setting match where you live?
DND_Reborn
The High Aldwin
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. My adventures tend to range over the course a campaign to most terrain type and biospheres.
David Howery
Hero
I've lived most of my life in MT, ID, and WY... always thought the Barrens in Greyhawk were a good match, although I never ran a whole campaign there....
R_J_K75
Legend
I remember growing up as a pre-teen & teenager we used to hang out and cause havoc in a group of fields that was close to our houses. There was a stand of bamboo that grew in this one area. I always thought someone must've planted it at some point because it always died come fall but grew back in spring. Figured it wasn't native to the area and just seemed odd that it was there. We used to beat the hell out of each other with it after getting high. Looking it up on google now might have been switch cane.
Bluebell
Explorer
Yes and no. I grew up in the Rocky Mountains, so I'm setting my current campaign in a mountain valley out of nostalgia, but I've been drawing on other places like Iceland and the Andes to give it more flavor. I'm the only one in my player group who's lived in rural areas, so I definitely bring a lot of my knowledge about farmland to these city folk.
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Guest 7034872
Guest
I guess my situation is similar to Bluebell's: my campaign isn't based on where I live quite so much as on various places I've visited and loved. My desert elements borrow very heavily from my own time in the desert, my mountainous adventure borrows from my own time in the mountains, and so on. Basically, every place I've fallen in love with found its way into the adventure.
eyeheartawk
#1 Enworld Jerk™
I'm the same way. Most of my campaigns take place at a Red Lobster during endless shrimp days.
Voadam
Legend
I run a lot of adventures so I will usually go with what's there modified for my homebrew world. So the terrain and such is normally determined by what adventures I am running.
When I ran Freeport it is an equatorial island with jungles and not even four seasons. That is not within my direct experience but I went with it. When I ran a Ravenloft game and the party went to tropical fantasy India Sri Raji that was not D&D New England.
When something is not heavily detailed though it becomes much more my defaults of New England, Midwest, and East Coast U.S. as D&D backdrop.
When I ran Freeport it is an equatorial island with jungles and not even four seasons. That is not within my direct experience but I went with it. When I ran a Ravenloft game and the party went to tropical fantasy India Sri Raji that was not D&D New England.
When something is not heavily detailed though it becomes much more my defaults of New England, Midwest, and East Coast U.S. as D&D backdrop.
aco175
Legend
Last year we went on vacation to St Croix and there were all these ground squirrels, but slightly awkward looking. Turned out they were mongooses imported long ago to control rats in the sugar plantations. We had to look it up.
Stormonu
Legend
"Use what you know"
I've lived in coastal California, just outside Atlanta and now Mississippi, with a couple visits to relatives in Kansas and Ohio. As well as a couple week-long trip to Arizona, Wisconsin & Chicago. Most of my campaigns I run in spring/summer areas where the heat index makes plate a bad idea.
...Speaking of snow, the very first time I encountered snow was at system training in Chicago (I was just out of college). When fighting my way through the wind between buildings, I saw a huge pile of snow and decided to fall/allow myself to be blow into it. I had no idea that the wind could freeze it hard as concrete, ouch!!!
I've lived in coastal California, just outside Atlanta and now Mississippi, with a couple visits to relatives in Kansas and Ohio. As well as a couple week-long trip to Arizona, Wisconsin & Chicago. Most of my campaigns I run in spring/summer areas where the heat index makes plate a bad idea.
...Speaking of snow, the very first time I encountered snow was at system training in Chicago (I was just out of college). When fighting my way through the wind between buildings, I saw a huge pile of snow and decided to fall/allow myself to be blow into it. I had no idea that the wind could freeze it hard as concrete, ouch!!!
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