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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BlackMoria" data-source="post: 3533454" data-attributes="member: 424">Seriously...Trying to be original and innovative is alot of hard work, particularly if you want to design your own world.Unless you got the time and the ambition to work on it, it is going to come across as lacking the spark you seek.  And since time is a factor you say you don't have in abundance, then any attempt to do lip service to your quest of originality is going to further offend your sensiblities.I suggest that you take whatever published material you have at hand and just retcon aspects of it - such as removing an organization and replacing it with your original creation.  Or completely redo a town or a small country.  As the campaign develops, continue to delete and refine at your leisure.  Over a space of a campaign, you can add alot of your own original personal touches.  The next campaign, keep the world and refine some more and so on.  Eventually, the published campaign world you started with will have more original elements in it than published elements and you are on your way.And if that doesn't help, whenever you get that feeling like a hack feeling, start with a six-pack of your favorite brew and imbibe until the feeling goes away.   <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></blockquote>