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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 6905970" data-attributes="member: 6801845">I'll echo the start small.  Start with a village, have a vague idea of what kind of area and kingdom it lies in and general understanding of what is in the general area.I'd also add that you don't want to plan too many details of your world ahead of time.  Storytelling has a tendency to take on a life of it's own and some of my campaigns have gone far, far off what I had originally anticipated.Don't rewrite classes, races or monsters more than you need to.  Instead give them a different flavor and feel so that they fit your world.  Designing new races is not easy, and part of the reason D&D works for so many people is that it plays to people's preconceived notions.  Instead of creating new races, I'd suggest that you take a different spin on existing races.  For example, for the most part dwarves worship the standard dwarven deities (Moradin, etc) but there's another region where the dwarves worship the elemental forces of nature.  Magic is done with runes carved in stone and they believe that all life is connected in kind of an amalgam of The Force and shamanistic magic.  Druidic dwarves from the region tweak the description of their spells to be more elemental than nature so Barkskin is Rockskin instead.  The spell is the same but the visual effect and feel is different.  But other things that I thought would be awesome never really caught anyone's imagination.  For example in my world halflings worship countless gods.  As far as other people are concerned, halflings just make up gods as they go along.  I thought this was a fun idea that would allow the player to make up dozens of deities, making up new ones as he went along.  Instead the guy made up one deity and stuck with it.  But that's ok.  I gave him an option, it didn't spark his imagination so I moved on.I give my players options to shape the world, but I don't try to force them to play according to what is fun for me.  We play a style of game that is fun for us as a group.</blockquote>

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