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I once spent a good year researching and planning but never playing a campaign set in Northumbria (Yorkshire area) shortly after William's invasion of 1066. In fact, I can still name every river and town in the Yorkshire Dales, though I've never been to the region. :) What I found so attractive...

To me, the World Builder's Guidebook that TSR put out in the mid 90s still stands alone as the most comprehensive and fun to read title on the subject. It really works with any edition of D&D which is probably why WotC didn't release a new installment. There's also a few pertinent chapters in...

As a player I think I'd hate being called upon to recap, it's too much like being called out in class. Plus, of course the GM, having spent all this time preparing, should have the best grasp of what the state of play is anyway. As a GM, I find a short 5 or so sentence recap really helpful, not...

If it does, I haven't described it right. I'm not looking for another megalomaniac muppet show . I don't need a whole world, continent or even country described at this level of detail. A region one thousandth the size of FR would do, but I'm looking for density, not breadth (which is why I'm...

This thread is yielding a pretty good collection of links and titles offering bits and pieces for the aspiring sandbox builder - but frankly, I have yet to see a campaign setting / mega-module that truly, fully delivers on the concept. What would that look like? My ideal product would contain...

So judging from the discussion and some of the examples posted the general consensus seems to be that a sandbox game needn't be entirely plotless, just that the plot shouldn't be built around and custom tailored for the characters. Also, most plots seem to be open-ended but heading for a world...

Where did this come from ... ? Nice job, but strongly suggest you use colour for the next iteration.

I'm with Destroyyoualot in that half the fun in sandbox play is that it empowers, nay, requires the DM to improvise within a preset framwork. I'm also all for letting the dice fall where they may wrt encounters and combat, provided you gave the players enough opportunities for getting...

In terms of scope, this campaign is supposed to cover the epic (lv 1-10) range, and a very dense area - I'm thinking more in terms of a mega-module than a nation or world sized setting. I'm expecting that the characters will stay in the region I outlined until they are kings of that particular...

Before you read any further, I suggest you check out an excellent series of posts over on the Ars Ludi blog. . It describes in great detail the design theory of and learnings from the author’s “West Marches” campaign, a sandbox setting that ran for over two years, with some 20 (!) players...

Wildass guess: Could it be that creatures (and N/PCs) can now go fully negative on hits, reaching "bloodied" condition at zero and dead at negative HP-1? Just a thought ... J.

This is the one I was referring to, thanks for digging up the link. Loved that book - there's tons of background there.

Depends on how close to the literary original you want to be. If the answer is "very", the result would be a low level (E6?), very low magic, humans-only campaign, with fighters, rangers/scouts and rogues as the main classes. Depending on how much you make of the celtic "Herne" elements and...

Funny ... I want neither the overstuffed megalomania of FR or Greyhawk nor Dark Sun exoticism. I want mainstream: Standard 4e classes and races and monsters on a predominantly heroic-level world. The closest an official setting has come to my ideal was the first edition of Dragonlance: A...

Big thumbs up, after quite some initial scepticism. Races and Classes really sold me on the redesign; I think this will be the best incarnation of D&D yet.

Same here. My group has been playing online for half a year / more than a dozen sessions now, and after surverying all the options, MapTool was what we decided on. It's very stable, gives you great control over maps and minis, supports scripting and has amazing line-of-sight and fog of war...

Midnight 2e is my favorite 3e campaign sourcebook: Gritty, succesfully tweaks D20 to low magic/low fantasy and a really cool, dark setting with very detailed descriptions.

My current campaign has a druidic nature religion (elvish) and a monotheistic faith shared by humans and dwarves, but split into two factions: one lawful (g/n/e), the other (l/n/c) good. I have never let God(s) have an active role in my campaigns or even confirmed their existance other than...

I guess my group will play the new modules first, to get a feel for 4e's mechanics (and wrap up our current 3.5 campaign in parallel). Eventually we will start a new campaign, homebrewed around the fluff that comes with the new core books. In my past campaigns, I've always eliminated classes...

Because many players who do go into the double digits complain of the games growing complexity (read through this thread from the beginning), and from a DM's perspective it gets progressively harder to come up with a credible, challenging scenario the higher you go. Now, I am aware some people...