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<blockquote data-quote="Pants" data-source="post: 1151906" data-attributes="member: 8849"><p>Well, I've built my various campaign worlds very differently.</p><p></p><p>I had a haphazardly built 2ed world that had some history, no real map, and just lots of stuff, most of it making no sense at all.</p><p></p><p>My first 3ed campaign started with the vaguest of ideas. The PC's were captured, experimented on, and then woke up and broke free from a strange lab. They then emerged into a fairly large city and I built things from there. One of the PC's played a Half Elven Ranger and his favored enemy was Elves (his human mother was raped by an Elvish soldier.. yadda, yadda). So, building on that idea, I made an evil Elven empire that was warring with a human empire. It pretty much became the focus of the campaign. I expanded on it quite a bit, but I eventually retired it after a year or so.</p><p></p><p>My current campaign started with me drawing a map. Thats it. As the PC's traveled to places, I'd flesh it out. The only thing I had prepared beforehand was a single city and that was it. The campaign eventually grew to have very many different lands, cultures, races, and a fairly varied history. I'm quite proud of it actually, even if it is essentially Greyhawk or FR in style.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pants, post: 1151906, member: 8849"] Well, I've built my various campaign worlds very differently. I had a haphazardly built 2ed world that had some history, no real map, and just lots of stuff, most of it making no sense at all. My first 3ed campaign started with the vaguest of ideas. The PC's were captured, experimented on, and then woke up and broke free from a strange lab. They then emerged into a fairly large city and I built things from there. One of the PC's played a Half Elven Ranger and his favored enemy was Elves (his human mother was raped by an Elvish soldier.. yadda, yadda). So, building on that idea, I made an evil Elven empire that was warring with a human empire. It pretty much became the focus of the campaign. I expanded on it quite a bit, but I eventually retired it after a year or so. My current campaign started with me drawing a map. Thats it. As the PC's traveled to places, I'd flesh it out. The only thing I had prepared beforehand was a single city and that was it. The campaign eventually grew to have very many different lands, cultures, races, and a fairly varied history. I'm quite proud of it actually, even if it is essentially Greyhawk or FR in style. [/QUOTE]
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