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<blockquote data-quote="nevin" data-source="post: 8137585" data-attributes="member: 7024481"><p>I feel like we are talking different languages. If which kingdoms hate each other, which areas are overrun by monsters, where the legendary ruins of xxx, the mountains that the dragons live in, the trade routes up and down the coast, across the desert etc, that certain kingdoms are Aurthurian style nights, city x is ruled by a secret merchant cabal, that a secret order of necromancers is based in a country trying to conquer the world etc, etc , etc. Most campaign settings I've seen and used I see 25 or more plot hooks just reading them. My players usually came in telling me where in the campaign world they wanted to start . What does it take to to establish play expectations for your characters if stuff like that isn't enough?</p><p></p><p> If your complaint is campaign settings don't have a campaign of adventures laid out I'd say you've conflated the Campaign set which to me is simply the Backdrop and the Adventures which are the day to day stuff. one is Macro, one is Micro and while they interact they aren't the same thing. Getting the campaign set it like buying a house. It's got all the rooms and features you want to play with but you still have to furnish it, decorate it, put in curtains and stake it out as your Game.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nevin, post: 8137585, member: 7024481"] I feel like we are talking different languages. If which kingdoms hate each other, which areas are overrun by monsters, where the legendary ruins of xxx, the mountains that the dragons live in, the trade routes up and down the coast, across the desert etc, that certain kingdoms are Aurthurian style nights, city x is ruled by a secret merchant cabal, that a secret order of necromancers is based in a country trying to conquer the world etc, etc , etc. Most campaign settings I've seen and used I see 25 or more plot hooks just reading them. My players usually came in telling me where in the campaign world they wanted to start . What does it take to to establish play expectations for your characters if stuff like that isn't enough? If your complaint is campaign settings don't have a campaign of adventures laid out I'd say you've conflated the Campaign set which to me is simply the Backdrop and the Adventures which are the day to day stuff. one is Macro, one is Micro and while they interact they aren't the same thing. Getting the campaign set it like buying a house. It's got all the rooms and features you want to play with but you still have to furnish it, decorate it, put in curtains and stake it out as your Game. [/QUOTE]
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