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<blockquote data-quote="Mark Hope" data-source="post: 8626590" data-attributes="member: 27051">Bespoke, mostly, although it's a bit of a mish-mash. I started gaming in Holland in the early 80s and it was nigh-impossible to find gaming stuff, so from the start I was running games in a bespoke homebrew setting because from what I could tell, that's what you were supposed to do. I hoovered up whatever I could find (so my world has the Isle of Dread and Castle Amber etc) and just went from there. By the time I got my hands on a pre-made setting (the Greyhawk box), I already had a world map and there was no room for the Flanaess, so Greyhawk became another planet that characters from my gameworld went to from time to time. I've continued in this vein, stealing things from Forgotten Realms (Myth Drannor, Undermountain, Thay) and adding off-world things like Spelljammer, Planescape, the odd trip to Ravenloft. I think I'm not alone in this approach. All my D&amp;D games are set in this ongoing world and I develop new areas as needed - barbarian adventurers over here, enlightened magocracy over there, crumbling empire off thattaway etc. Apart from my homebrew, the only premade campaign setting I use in its entirety is Dark Sun. Because Dark Sun is just so freaking awesome. Everything else is pillaged, looted, crammed into my homebrew, with the bones left for the crows.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mark Hope, post: 8626590, member: 27051"] Bespoke, mostly, although it's a bit of a mish-mash. I started gaming in Holland in the early 80s and it was nigh-impossible to find gaming stuff, so from the start I was running games in a bespoke homebrew setting because from what I could tell, that's what you were supposed to do. I hoovered up whatever I could find (so my world has the Isle of Dread and Castle Amber etc) and just went from there. By the time I got my hands on a pre-made setting (the Greyhawk box), I already had a world map and there was no room for the Flanaess, so Greyhawk became another planet that characters from my gameworld went to from time to time. I've continued in this vein, stealing things from Forgotten Realms (Myth Drannor, Undermountain, Thay) and adding off-world things like Spelljammer, Planescape, the odd trip to Ravenloft. I think I'm not alone in this approach. All my D&D games are set in this ongoing world and I develop new areas as needed - barbarian adventurers over here, enlightened magocracy over there, crumbling empire off thattaway etc. Apart from my homebrew, the only premade campaign setting I use in its entirety is Dark Sun. Because Dark Sun is just so freaking awesome. Everything else is pillaged, looted, crammed into my homebrew, with the bones left for the crows. [/QUOTE]

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