NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 1148807" data-attributes="member: 8447">I tend to start with a mood I want to approach first -- Epic, Lighthearted, Gritty, etc.After this, a general theme or course of Big Events.  This will not be utterly Set In Stone, because I allow for a LOT of player interaction.I usually also try to deal with a campaign aspect that I haven't played with before:  make a very realistic city, develop changes in a culture over time, come up with a long history, decide what foods are appropriate and what menus might look like, etc.  Each world (no matter what the system is) is a new challenge, each one a little closer to a feeling of share-reality.At that point, I start writing.  I come out with a series of shortish (1-5 pages) essays for my would-be players giving different background aspects to the world, well before I start dealing with House Rules and the like.  I want them to get a "feel" for the world.  After they start getting some notion of where the world is going, I ask them for feedback.  At that point I start working on the "crunchy bits" (limits on classes and PrCs, limits on equipment, added or subtracted skills, etc.).Somewhere along the line a map or two will appear.I will know that the world I am working on is going to be sucessful if the players start adding bits to the world, extra races, names of fruits, a story or legends, maybe a counting game.While I start the ball rolling, I want all my players to understand that this is a cooperative venture -- it is not MY world, but OUR world.Eventually flavour wins over mechanics in all my games.</blockquote>

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