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<blockquote data-quote="Cyclone Duke" data-source="post: 6567028" data-attributes="member: 6676391"><p>As a DM most of my focus/efforts for making the game fun for my group is in the delivery of characters and situations and making them impressive. I do get flashes of inspiration about how to weave my own story into campaigns, my own encounters and NPCs, but beyond this I don't have the interest to create whole worlds by myself when there is already the amazing works like WotBS available to be used, which is guarenteed to be a good delivery on lore, tactics and setting. I am happy to modify it from there when it gets going.</p><p></p><p>I spend hours upon hours reading and re-reading all the 3.5 sourcebooks and the 700page WotBS campaign book, and thinking of how to have NPCs interact with my group's characters in a personal way. I assure you I'm not lazy <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> I just don't design my own worlds - I put my (ton of) effort into other areas I think will benefit my group better. </p><p></p><p>When there's awesome work done by devoted people out there, you can get THAT level of quality in your campaign's world/setting - but then inject your own level of devotion into other areas YOU are good at!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cyclone Duke, post: 6567028, member: 6676391"] As a DM most of my focus/efforts for making the game fun for my group is in the delivery of characters and situations and making them impressive. I do get flashes of inspiration about how to weave my own story into campaigns, my own encounters and NPCs, but beyond this I don't have the interest to create whole worlds by myself when there is already the amazing works like WotBS available to be used, which is guarenteed to be a good delivery on lore, tactics and setting. I am happy to modify it from there when it gets going. I spend hours upon hours reading and re-reading all the 3.5 sourcebooks and the 700page WotBS campaign book, and thinking of how to have NPCs interact with my group's characters in a personal way. I assure you I'm not lazy :D I just don't design my own worlds - I put my (ton of) effort into other areas I think will benefit my group better. When there's awesome work done by devoted people out there, you can get THAT level of quality in your campaign's world/setting - but then inject your own level of devotion into other areas YOU are good at! [/QUOTE]
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