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<blockquote data-quote="TornadoCreator" data-source="post: 5537055" data-attributes="member: 6672078">Interesting, sounds like you're getting into the swing of things. My suggestion if you're ever able to run a campaign... use Forgotten Realms and make everyone from the Swords Coast. Why? Firstly, you can play Forgotten Realms without any background knowledge at all, after all, the average pig farmer in Faerun doesn't know which city/God/spell/monster is which so why would your first level character? Second, you have a truck-load of stuff to use to make it feel like a living breathing world. Thirdly, you will slowly get them involved in a world that can be made more real for them and expanded with additional countries, enemies, factions etc. without you needing to write everything (and more important remember everything) yourself. Fourthly, if there's a setting they're familiar with, it'll be the setting they used for Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale and Neverwinter Nights, all popular video games... but they're all 3rd Edition, thus almost a century ago and therefore all the NPC's they know are dead. It'll make it familiar enough that they'll think &quot;oooh, I know that&quot; but not so much so that you actually need to remember who the halfling rogue in Neverwinter Nights is.If however this is just going to be a few sessions, just to see how it goes... well good luck with it and I hope you have fun, you seem to be doing well enough.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TornadoCreator, post: 5537055, member: 6672078"] Interesting, sounds like you're getting into the swing of things. My suggestion if you're ever able to run a campaign... use Forgotten Realms and make everyone from the Swords Coast. Why? Firstly, you can play Forgotten Realms without any background knowledge at all, after all, the average pig farmer in Faerun doesn't know which city/God/spell/monster is which so why would your first level character? Second, you have a truck-load of stuff to use to make it feel like a living breathing world. Thirdly, you will slowly get them involved in a world that can be made more real for them and expanded with additional countries, enemies, factions etc. without you needing to write everything (and more important remember everything) yourself. Fourthly, if there's a setting they're familiar with, it'll be the setting they used for Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale and Neverwinter Nights, all popular video games... but they're all 3rd Edition, thus almost a century ago and therefore all the NPC's they know are dead. It'll make it familiar enough that they'll think "oooh, I know that" but not so much so that you actually need to remember who the halfling rogue in Neverwinter Nights is. If however this is just going to be a few sessions, just to see how it goes... well good luck with it and I hope you have fun, you seem to be doing well enough. [/QUOTE]

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