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Message: <blockquote data-quote="evildmguy" data-source="post: 1250513" data-attributes="member: 6092">This is as close as I could come to this ideaI recently started (about five months ago) a new campaign.  In this campaign, I moved the cities of the PCs to a "new" world.  This world was created by some very powerful, long lived beings, who bring various species, sentient and not, put them down on the world and watch them interact.  Some of these beings are benevolent and some are not.  There were some people there before, but the beings wiped most of the slate clean.  They are now bringing in the next group of people they want to observe, i.e. the PCs.  So, there are ruins, there are artifacts of the previous species as well as artifacts from the beings themselves.  The towns are dropped into an area and they now have a blank map.  Actually, they have a map they have to draw!  They had maps of where they were before but now have to start mapping everything.So, this is about as "new world" as I would go.  I would want the world to have a back story.  I don't think I would want to start without some progress level above stone age.  I am not against it, and perhaps I will do it next time, but right now, I still want familiar themes, skills and ideas in the area.  I do see the "end" of this campaign, probably in a decade or decade and a half from now, when hopefully, I have been able to run various campaigns set on this world through about 1000 years of "history".  I don't have anything set in stone, just a vague timeline of things that will happen without PC intervention.  What this has done is allow my players to affect the world.  They have named a mountain.  They are going to name a river.  It seems weird and corny to say but in two or three campaigns from now, when they might be playing the great, great grandchildren of the people who named the mountain, I think that will be cool.  At least, that is what I am going for in this.  I also tend to run things very continuous across my campaigns.  So, people and events from old campaigns pop up in the newer ones.  (I usually played DND and ran FR and this is where that happened.)  This crosses people and groups.  In the end, I am the only one who gets EVERY joke but many of them hear about it and at least chuckle at what I have done.  I am just trying to take the one step further and allow the players the chance to affect the world in a very large way.  As I said, I couldn't have gone earlier, because I still wanted elements of fantasy (magic, weapons, species, etc.) present but underdeveloped.  So, magic is there but it isn't as advanced as FR.  (This is also because we, as a group, are still play testing/writing the new rules of magic!  So, it is a nice way to explain that as well.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  )Anyway, that's what I am doing with a world similar but not exactly as described.edg</blockquote>

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