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<blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 3103937" data-attributes="member: 725">The basis of every campaign world are the forces that made and shaped it: the gods, their servants, and followers.I feel inspired and am in the creative mood to start writing a 'new' campaign world, nothing new there, but there's a twist... I need it to follow the following guidelines:1. Everything i 'use' from other sources needs to be OGC or in the public domain, because everything written in this project will be OGC.2. The end result needs to be fully compatible with the 'core' SRD with options open for the rest of the SRD (Psionics, Epic, etc.).3. The setting must be understandable for new players and familiar to veterans.So the basic setting needs to be relatively light so that new players (to RPGs/D&amp;D/D20/Setting) can start without needing to read a book on the setting, while DMs have enough material to get their players through a complete campaign.So i know what kind of results i want, there is also a personal need to be thorough. I want to start at the beginning, when the gods made the world and populated it. I want to chronicle the events that lead to the current setting, that will give the setting a history and a consistency that will help in the campaign development.Sounds dandy so far, but then i hit a snag, do i use a single (limited) pantheon or multiple panteons. The obvious question i ask myself is &quot;What's more basic D&amp;D like?&quot; and to be honest, i don't really know anymore... So i ask you folks.A. Go with a single pantheon for the whole world (with different names in other cultures).orB. Go with multiple pantheons for each distinct culture.Any advice?ps. the general idea is to create a legal free source for beginning RPGers (or RPGers fallen on hard times).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cergorach, post: 3103937, member: 725"] The basis of every campaign world are the forces that made and shaped it: the gods, their servants, and followers. I feel inspired and am in the creative mood to start writing a 'new' campaign world, nothing new there, but there's a twist... I need it to follow the following guidelines: 1. Everything i 'use' from other sources needs to be OGC or in the public domain, because everything written in this project will be OGC. 2. The end result needs to be fully compatible with the 'core' SRD with options open for the rest of the SRD (Psionics, Epic, etc.). 3. The setting must be understandable for new players and familiar to veterans. So the basic setting needs to be relatively light so that new players (to RPGs/D&D/D20/Setting) can start without needing to read a book on the setting, while DMs have enough material to get their players through a complete campaign. So i know what kind of results i want, there is also a personal need to be thorough. I want to start at the beginning, when the gods made the world and populated it. I want to chronicle the events that lead to the current setting, that will give the setting a history and a consistency that will help in the campaign development. Sounds dandy so far, but then i hit a snag, do i use a single (limited) pantheon or multiple panteons. The obvious question i ask myself is "What's more basic D&D like?" and to be honest, i don't really know anymore... So i ask you folks. A. Go with a single pantheon for the whole world (with different names in other cultures). or B. Go with multiple pantheons for each distinct culture. Any advice? ps. the general idea is to create a legal free source for beginning RPGers (or RPGers fallen on hard times). [/QUOTE]

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