Is your Campaign Setting a mish-mash of supplements?

What is your kind of Campaign Setting?

  • A purist CS : nothing added, nothing changed.

    Votes: 5 3.4%
  • A specific CS with a few minor external additions.

    Votes: 44 30.3%
  • A specific CS with a different set of rules (ex: Dark Sun with AU races and classes)

    Votes: 8 5.5%
  • An abberation of CS, odiously mixing everything and its brother together.

    Votes: 52 35.9%
  • A totally homebrew CS with few or no external influences.

    Votes: 33 22.8%
  • We don't use any CS at all! We play, but don't care to know where!

    Votes: 3 2.1%

okay...

I can't use any of the options in this poll.

Yes, I do homebrew exclusively.

Yes, I borrow elements from multiple supplements, even occasionally from "setting books".

So where the hooeys does that place me?
 

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I chose "aberration" (and there's NO excuse for a DM to not be able to spell that -- it's what half the fun monsters are!), but really it's a homebrew with a LOT of external influences. I steal what ever I can to lower my workload, especially from the Manual of the Planes.

-- N
 

Robbert Raets said:
All my campaigns, ruleswise and storywise are a hybrid bastards spawn of everything I have ever read or seen.
THATS my Setting! lol, see thats what I would have voted for it, had that been an option.


Long live the Hybrid Spawn Campaigns! :)
 

I went for the 'aberration' choice - homebrew with items dropped in from many supplements, including Freeport: City of Adventure, Bluffside: City on the Edge, Arcana: Societies of Magic, Assassin's Handbook, Book of Fiends, and others.

None have made it into my world unscathed, though. I never feel constrained by what's in the book, and cheerfully change things to suit my needs.

J
 

I use a lot of supplements, in a frothing mixture of delicious campaign yum. :)

BUT, I do pick and choose some things based on the flavor of the campaign I'm thinking of running. For instance, in my postapocalyptic setting, I use some harsher house rules for death (such as a lower massive damage threshold) that I don't use in my "regular" campaigns.
 

Anything I do with the Scarred Lands, I consider it just as cannon as if Greenwood runs his Forgotten Realms game or SKR/Monte running AU. :)
 

I call my style "kitbashing". I've used Al-Qadim, Dark Sun, Ravenloft, Living Jungle, Citybook, Hollow World, Freeport, and assorted other goodies. Oh and you might detect a hint of Edgar Rice Burroughs (no kidding), Steven Brust, HP Lovecraft, Fritz Leiber, Stephen Erikson and Glen Cook scattered here and there.

I didn't pick an option because none seemed to apply. Barsoom is everything I think is cool, just about.
 

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