How do you use pre-made campaign settings?

[Azazyll]

I guess in retrospect I should have put both a "what do you use most often" and a "heavily modified campaign" in, but hey, maybe someone can do that again a year from now and learn from past mistakes

I guess I should say that I personally go for the second option, with some mix and matching. I love Ravenloft, particularly the Doomsday Gazeteers, which are the best mostly-fluff setting specific supplements to come out of 3rd edition, IMHO. It's easy to just drop a domain into part of any world, since they're modular enough to be put anywhere. The arthaus team, apart from HoL and CoD, really have their act together making interesting supplements. I'm really dissapointed the Kargatane website went down so there's not a lot of community for it anymore. Most people on these threads don't really seem to pick up on the Ravenloft stuff, even though it's the same quality as the rest of S&S stuff.

Yay for tangents!

 

[Emiricol]

I used to homebrew. These days, most of my gaming is in T13K.

 

[Nightfall]

I use the Scarred Lands. Do I modify? Only slightly here and there. But seeing how I am the Sage...well I say my modifications are cool.

 

[Gnarlo]

Another one here who needed the "off the rack campaign, but then with heavy tailoring" choice, but I picked #1 as being the closest. Anyone who's used the FR would recognize the campaign, but anyone who thought they could use the sourcebooks or novels as a divination spell about everything would be in for a surprise.

 

[teitan]

I am about to start an Arcana Unearthed game and I am using the Diamond Throne setting with very little modification. I created a city of about 12000 and put it along the eastern coast and that is about the only modification such a sparse setting needs. When I run D&D I use the Realms but also tend to stick with the book but prefer gaz's like DT.

Jason

 

[Janx]

It seems like it would be more cut and dried. You either bought the FR campaign book and play in FR, or you made your own world map and play in "YourWurld"

Most DMs add material and ideas from other sources, heck that's normal. But is the base campaign original or paid for?

Personally, I'm doing a homebrew world. It's really an emulation of a story series, adapted to D&D. Coincidentally, one of the D20 publishers has licensed the original story and sells it as a product. I not seen or purchased any of it. Thus all I have is the material in the original format (not a game) and I have my D&D world which emulates that story.

So where would that put my campaign? I voted for homebrew. I spent no money on any D20 campaign product. My campaign is not named after any D20 product. Nothing in my campaign bears the same name as anything in a D20 product (barring coincidence). And at present, only one player has clued in on what story I'm emulating, and even he's not recollecting all of it or sure of how much I'm using.

Janx