Mind of tempest
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I have an odd question I have always seen these big setting projects where on earth do they form? I have never seen to starting stage?
D&D 5E A new, old-school, high fantasy setting for 5E is coming soon: the Chronicles of Aeres
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I started playing D&D in high school 22 years ago. We played in Dragonlance at first (2nd Edition,) but I wanted to make a world more like Middle Earth at the time, because I was reading the SIlmarillion and kind of getting obsessed with it. So that's what I did! I drew a map on printer paper and just started typing out every fantasy idea that came to my head. I shoe-horned all kinds of random stuff into it, like flying continents and snow elves, because I wanted to make it a world where you'd never run out of new things to encounter. (A lot of D&D writers actually point out that this is a common beginner's mistake; it's become a meme that you create this vast world and your players only see 2% of it, ignoring the rest.) So, all this time later, I decided to focus on that 2-5% of my original world that was thematically cohesive, and reinvigorate it into a campaign setting.
Mind of tempest
(he/him)advocate for 5e psionics
you did this by yourself?
Yes. I mean, all the writing and most of the world-building anyway. My best friend is helping me out with the actual production.
Mind of tempest
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wow that is honestly kinda impressive.
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My two cents, I would ignore that criticism. It wasn't particularly constructive, and personally I like the names; in D&D a lot of players like exploring places, ESPECIALLY when they have ridiculous names. Normal D&D is like this; if you look at the Doomvault, it's stuffed with extravagant names!
Your setting won't please every type of player, so lean into the target group you want to appeal to.
On the other end of the spectrum, I recently received my copy of Lex Arcana, and while overall it's really high quality (and comes from one of my favorite game designers), the insistence on using Latin-sounding names...presumably for increased flavor...actually makes the book really hard to read. So much so that I haven't actually read much of it. Maybe people whose native language is more directly descended from Latin would have an easier time of it, but I don't.
"Tombspire" and "Shattered Fields" might not meet some readers expectations for originality, but at least they give me a concept to anchor them to.
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Why in the name of Frazetta have I never seen this person's art before? They're great! And very Frazetta, which is a requirement for S&S as far as I'm concerned.
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