Never homebrewed!

[Desdichado]

Until I started posting here at ENWorld, I honestly didn't know a single DM who DIDN'T run a homebrew campaign. Like Templetroll said, we all just took it for granted that creating a campaign world was part of a DM's job. It was one of the reasons we wanted to be DMs in the first place.

Of course, when D&D first came out, there WERE no campaign settings, so it was homebrew or nothing. If you wanted to play, you had to create the world.

Haha! I remember those days! Yeah, back in the day homebrewing was pretty much equivalent to DMing. I remember very clearly all of us drawing out maps on graph paper, because, well, that's just what you did. Even then, that was one of the reasons I enjoyed it, though. And I usually only made some "high level" notes and a map.

 

[Celtavian]

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I have a Homebrew world I am working on, but I would never run it with anyone save close, trustworthy friends because this is the primary world for which I write.

It definitely takes a long time to create a unique and interesting homebrew world. And like you, I work on it when I have a good idea. I don't want to rush it and make a boring world with little depth.

Mostly I just used the published world. The FR is especially rich in detail and very interesting to me. I can read through the world books and concoct enjoyable adventures, and that is what I look for in a world.

 

[hong]

Mmm, homebrews.

Hong "musta left those hops too long" Ooi

 

[Taloras]

Im currently working on a homebrew campaign setting. ive never DMed (before last night, when i ran the first adventure because the others wanted me to DM), and its frustrating trying to put together encounters. The reason im homebrewing is because there just ISNT a campaign setting with the Norse gods. Now i need to flesh out the world with cities, towns, people. Im trying to keep a Norse flavor, but am having trouble with town names....

 

[Nathal]

Re: Re: Never homebrewed!

Alsthough I haven't actually read it yet, that new book by Gygax sounds like it would be of use as well, but only after you have gotten started on the construction.

That's a good way of putting it. Here is the thread about the Gygax book, including a chapter-by-chapter outline of its contents.

http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=38019&perpage=40&pagenumber=1