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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Coroc" data-source="post: 7431676" data-attributes="member: 6895991">[MENTION=6811422]Commissar[/MENTION]   Whew i wish i had that time and Patience, well it is a matter of taste on one Hand, you seem to like the detailed myriad of opportunities but,... let me start different.When i was younger and had more time i would try this alos but it always ended me taking some official Thing and altering it, but if i had to homebrew i would do the same things i do with my altered official Settings:Strip down!Reasons: You are the Individuum with the most knowledge about your world / altered official Setting means you should have all the Details at Hand or know where to look up if needed. Thats a lot of data to Keep in mind all the time.Do not expect the Players to memorize the Detail of every divine genealogy or to Keep apart the tiny differences of 6 different human subraces.Just be sure to include the stuff your Players *want* to Play in your world if possible. If you are a fan of Detail then Detail out that scope.E.g. You offer 27 deities of which 17 are fit for a cleric and 3 for a druid. Your powergamer might check all those Backgrounds for some mechanical Advantage if he wants to Play a cleric. Your roleplayer will read up all the lore to find something interesting Topic to Play and develop. But is it that in your Player Group there are 2 or three Players who want to eventually play a  cleric  and of which Player type are they? Power gamer, roleplayer or in between?If you do not want to put your Setting Commercial then you eventually invest a lot of work on stuff which might not ever come up in a game.So here is how i would do it:Offer 1 deity for each Domain, eventually you know your Players well enough to know that None of them will ever Play e.g. a nature cleric,Think about which wizard Schools they PlayThink about wether some of the less prefered classes are played by your Players at all e.g. eventually no one in your Group will ever want to Play a halfling.Do this with the rest of the classes / subclasses.Now you know what you either can leave out or do not have to Detail upfront. Make a spreadsheet for your Players say here is my new homebrew, These are the races /classes (i use detailed commbos also but thats grognard) do you miss something?Next step is the plot. Is there an overarcing theme like inmost official supplements? What does make your wordl Special e.g. Is it covered with 90% water and iceWhat Locations are needed for the plot?Detail out These, especially the places where the Action shall take place. If you want them not to feel railroaded think of optional Placements of Encounters for when the Group travels.Now to the fun stuff, (for me at least) And trust me this will get used more often than your 27 deities:What is the tech Level of the Setting and what is the Magic Level and how are is Magic seen in your world?What is the economic System, how civilised is everything.To compress my view: Do anything you have fun with, but for best playing experience put the most work in those Areas which will come up. It is different in official e.g FR, but they got a Legion of artists authors etc. to do this work whereas you are alone.</blockquote>

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