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Curiosity: Demarcation between Personalizing and Homebrew
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<blockquote data-quote="staticdrifter" data-source="post: 7495203" data-attributes="member: 6667324"><p>For me, personalization carries from what everyone knows, or can read about in core and official materials, to the point where a concept, idea, and - especially - rules can no longer be construed as a continuation of, or insertion into, a given setting.</p><p></p><p>For example, and I use the Forgotten Realms,:</p><p>In the lands to the east of the Inner Sea lays a country called Thay ruled by Red Wizards. These wizards are usually bald, have tatooed heads ang wear red robes. They tend to be evil, and are ruled by a lich named Zzass Tam.</p><p>So far, on book.</p><p>In my campaign, the Red Wizards control every aspect of slave trade in the realms. There is not a slave bought, sold, punished or freed that is not recorded and overseen by a Red Wizard.</p><p></p><p>This is personalization. It's not by the book, but there are no rules or official products which prevent this from occuring.</p><p></p><p>One of my players is a chaotic good Owlbear monk who wears plate-mail armor and carries a +8 laser cannon which he only can use in Thay due to the magical canopy that covers that entire land. Also, Dynaris Stormborn and Harry Potter fell through interdimensional portals and got married and govern Waterdeep and Cormyr from their beech house in East haven.</p><p></p><p>That would be homebrew. </p><p></p><p>Oh, and if I ever actually run that campaign, have me committed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="staticdrifter, post: 7495203, member: 6667324"] For me, personalization carries from what everyone knows, or can read about in core and official materials, to the point where a concept, idea, and - especially - rules can no longer be construed as a continuation of, or insertion into, a given setting. For example, and I use the Forgotten Realms,: In the lands to the east of the Inner Sea lays a country called Thay ruled by Red Wizards. These wizards are usually bald, have tatooed heads ang wear red robes. They tend to be evil, and are ruled by a lich named Zzass Tam. So far, on book. In my campaign, the Red Wizards control every aspect of slave trade in the realms. There is not a slave bought, sold, punished or freed that is not recorded and overseen by a Red Wizard. This is personalization. It's not by the book, but there are no rules or official products which prevent this from occuring. One of my players is a chaotic good Owlbear monk who wears plate-mail armor and carries a +8 laser cannon which he only can use in Thay due to the magical canopy that covers that entire land. Also, Dynaris Stormborn and Harry Potter fell through interdimensional portals and got married and govern Waterdeep and Cormyr from their beech house in East haven. That would be homebrew. Oh, and if I ever actually run that campaign, have me committed. [/QUOTE]
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