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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Odhanan" data-source="post: 2808358" data-attributes="member: 12324">Crothian's got it right: you begin with whatever feels right to you. That's a bit like singing: you've got to find your voice, and after a while, you'll have your own.As a matter of example, I can speak of the way I do it. Usually, it starts with an idea. Like... Atlantis just before its fall, for instance. I have a start of background in my head. Then I start to draw a map. And I try to imagine the regions as I draw mountains, hills, forests, rivers, cities. It sort of comes together for me that way. Then I get a grasp of the kind of climate there is, what kind of ethnicities may live here or there. I adjust the geography and topography according to where I want to go (from my initial idea), or I modify my goals with whatever comes up from the pencil that seems better than what I originally had in mind.Then I return to the background, and start to flesh it out with a Chronology on my note book. I will modify this Chronology fairly often, until the past reflects the Present, vice versa, and both Present and Past inspire me to create adventures for the PCs. I usually turn then to the crunch. The races available, what kind of character classes would fit, what kind of PrCs I could come up with. I go down to the details, until I reach the point of houseruling on this or that point of the rules I'd like to use to fit the setting.I then go back to the background and modify it again. This time, I fit in whatever races and ethnicities I'd like to have to represent a good pannel of choices for the PCs. I start describing them in a D&D format with background, rules information and so on. I insert events here and there, modify others by domino effects. And I go on like this, switching between rules and background so that each answer and reflect each other. It may take years for me to get where I want to be with the setting, but it's one of the best creative activities I know, if not the best, because it blends so many different types of logic and arts.I hope it helps you out Galeros. And remember: any long term endeavor is a war between despair and hope. Things take time to grow. You've got to arm yourself with patience and work at it consistently to be truly satisfied, I think.</blockquote>

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