Do you name your campaigns?
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hunter2112
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I keep wanting to but for some reason my creativity does not extend to coming up with a name for the campaign. I have yet to understand this minor little stumbling block of mine but there it is.
NiTessine
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Our group generally develops a nomenclature for the campaign if it manages to run long enough to deserve one. Most don't. Thus far, we've had "Dungeons & Warhammers" (see link in .sig for Story Hour), "Three Men and a Gnome" (A Forgotten Realms campaign, named after the group's composition of three human males and a gnome.), and "Savage Races" (An evil-aligned demihuman campaign. The name is the result of multiple players forgetting simultaneously that the book is called Savage Species.).
blackshirt5
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The name of my current campaign(which I just came up with the other day) is "Soldiers of Darkness and Light".
I try to name them, ever since Third Edition was released.
The Legend of Aerilis - A PbeM game, although who/what Aerilis is and what the legend is are far from being revealed...
The Fates - Another PbeM game that folded unfortunately. Named after the seven sisters who acted like gods for the world.
The Border Chronicles - Simple... set in the Border Kingdoms of the Forgotten Realms.
The Coming Night - My face-to-face game. An ancient evil is reforming its armies and are set to flood the world...
The name of a campaign does help to set mood and tone for the game, but sometimes the names to just devolve into 'Tim's D&D game'
The Legend of Aerilis - A PbeM game, although who/what Aerilis is and what the legend is are far from being revealed...
The Fates - Another PbeM game that folded unfortunately. Named after the seven sisters who acted like gods for the world.
The Border Chronicles - Simple... set in the Border Kingdoms of the Forgotten Realms.
The Coming Night - My face-to-face game. An ancient evil is reforming its armies and are set to flood the world...
The name of a campaign does help to set mood and tone for the game, but sometimes the names to just devolve into 'Tim's D&D game'
Gothmog
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Nope, I never name my campaigns. It just seems so cheesy to me. Games are not like novels or book chapters. That, and the fact that I use story arcs interspersed with isolated adventures, without an overriding theme to the whole campaign make it hard to name a campaign.
Having said that, I always name my adventures, just so I can keep track of what they were by knowing the name. At 100+ adventures in my 12-year old game, I need the help!
Having said that, I always name my adventures, just so I can keep track of what they were by knowing the name. At 100+ adventures in my 12-year old game, I need the help!
Gothmog
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Nope, I never name my campaigns. It just seems so cheesy to me. Games are not like novels or book chapters. That, and the fact that I use story arcs interspersed with isolated adventures, without an overriding theme to the whole campaign make it hard to name a campaign.
Having said that, I always name my adventures, just so I can keep track of what they were by knowing the name. At 100+ adventures in my 12-year old game, I need the help!
Having said that, I always name my adventures, just so I can keep track of what they were by knowing the name. At 100+ adventures in my 12-year old game, I need the help!
Gothmog
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Nope, I never name my campaigns. It just seems so cheesy to me. Games are not like novels or book chapters. That, and the fact that I use story arcs interspersed with isolated adventures, without an overriding theme to the whole campaign make it hard to name a campaign.
Having said that, I always name my adventures, just so I can keep track of what they were by knowing the name. At 100+ adventures in my 12-year old game, I need the help!
Edit: One of the things that really soured me on naming games was a DM I played under who would write up 12-15 pages of (bad) fiction every week as background for the adventure. It was tedious to read through, dull, and so pretensious and melodramatic. He would always make grandiose names for each CHAPTER (with each adventure being several chapters long)- blech! It was just too much.
Having said that, I always name my adventures, just so I can keep track of what they were by knowing the name. At 100+ adventures in my 12-year old game, I need the help!
Edit: One of the things that really soured me on naming games was a DM I played under who would write up 12-15 pages of (bad) fiction every week as background for the adventure. It was tedious to read through, dull, and so pretensious and melodramatic. He would always make grandiose names for each CHAPTER (with each adventure being several chapters long)- blech! It was just too much.
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