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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greg K" data-source="post: 7652521" data-attributes="member: 5038">As a player and a GM, I am not interested in campaign creation described by the OP. I will, actually, walk out as a player.  Tell me your setting basics: your races, cultures, your nations, your deities, etc. If it interests me, I'll make a character that fits in. If it does not, I will politely decline to participate (for published settings, I will decline participating in Eberron, Planescape, Spelljammer, and the default 4e setting) (Note: along with the setting, I want to know the house rules before the first adventure).As a GM, I will provide the setting basics. If you want to participate, great! Give me a character that fits within the established limits of the setting and table rules (the latter includes limits on the optimization and charop stuff). Follow that rule and we can discuss its back story and I'll work with you to tailor it to the setting. Want a paladin raised in an temple and adventuring to find a lost sibling while another character is a knight from a neighboring kingdom seeking the people that ambushed his patrol and two others are from a northern kingdom seeking to find and rescue their abducted princess?  No problem. There is only one deity with paladins.  The three major temples are located here, here and here. Throughout the campaign, I will throw in hooks and full night adventures revolving around them.  Want a drow? Sorry, there are no drow. However, there are these island dwelling elves that look like drow. Mechanically, they are your standard elves and favor these classes.Want to play a ninja that throws shurriken and does all the classic ninja stuff? Sorry, there are no ninjas, asian martial arts, or asian weapons in this campaign.  What is it about ninja that interests you?  Spying? Being stealthy, acrobatic, dressed in black and thrown weapons?  Being stealthy and casting spells?  My actual suggestion will depend on the campaign. It might be that there are very few magic users and, therefore, no organizations that blend stealth and spellcasting. Another campaign, might find me suggesting a class that blends magic and stealth.At the same time, the characters, through their actions, make their own enemies and allies throughout the campaign.  If they grab on to  hooks leading to potential major villains I have provided great. If not, they there are many other possibilities and directions.  So, ultimately, when I run, the players shape the campaign, because I react to the characters I have and their actions.  However, the characters are grounded into the setting  because they built them to fit within the preestablished limits and I have enough prebuilt to adapt on the fly while running a setting that interests me.</blockquote>

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