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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DDK" data-source="post: 636667" data-attributes="member: 6469">That it's mine, Mine, all MINE!Seriously. The fact that I can do whatever I want with it is a great motivator, especially when I get miffed at limitations or silly things done in published settings. I get into a, "I could do this so much better..." mood and so I sit down and rework my world for the nth time.Also, much like Drawmack, I write both fiction and flavour text for the world which is something I enjoy doing. My world's history is replete with wars and empires and ages and lots of cool stuff (or at least I think it's cool... which is half the point).Most especially, I love making up characters and evolving them into the world. A lot of my character concepts start out simple and evolve, you see, into highly detailed and very complex personalities. Character is, IMO, what truly drives a world. Make your characters bigger than life itself but not so big that they dwarf anything a PC could do (something I feel Forgotten Realms suffers from) and you've instantly got an interesting backdrop.And cities, I love making up cities. Giving each one a little quirk all it's own. Some have big quirks, others have little ones, but much like in the real world, each city has a character all its own. Paris is different from London; Melbourne is different from New York; Seattle is different from Moscow, and all of them convey the immense variety that just ONE species is capable of.About the only thing I dislike is races. On my world, the races are a bit like on David Eddings world, where they have differences that make them distinct enough to tell apart, but not so blatent as the difference between, say, a dwarf and an orc. And there are no hobbits on my world. God I hate hobbits.</blockquote>

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