New Campaign=New Setting?

[Odhanan]

Yes, I like to change settings when I'm done with a campaign and begin another one. There have been exceptions, and I have my favorites which I use time and again, including my homebrews which are 'persistent worlds' over the years with different players, but I like to vary from one campaign to the next.

 

[MonsterMash]

Depends on the DM, but normally when we change DMs we change worlds/settings, but for example all the campaigns I run I use the Wilderlands as the setting so if one campaign ended and I then started to run another it would be in the same setting, but probably a different region.

 

[Aeric]

We usually switch settings if not game systems, just to keep things fresh. At the very least, we have the next game take place in a different part of the world than the last one.

The one exception to this was when we played the children of our characters from the previous campaign.

 

[an_idol_mind]

In the first campaign I ran when 3rd edition came out, one of the principle NPCs was a 4-year old girl who had lost her parents to an orc raid. One of my players suggested I run a game that showed her as an adult. I advanced the timeline 15 years, and she became a PC. The campaign was great.

Since then, I've made a habit out of periodically jumping the timeline forward. Not only does it help keep the power level reasonable (as old heroes retire or die, creating a need for new heroes), but it lets the players see the long-term effects of their characters' adventures. My players have gotten a feeling of ownership about the setting, since their characters often go on to become local rulers and legends of the land, shaping the world in ways that I hadn't forseen. I highly recommend that style of play; it's quite fun.

 

[sckeener]

I like many layered campaigns and the easiest way to do that is to build on the old. Even if I do start a new setting, I usually drag over all the baggage of old....

 

[Mokona]

New games in my group by the same DM tend to use the same setting but 100 to 1,000 years later and in a different area of the map. Of course, we "sunk atlantis" and the sunken continent was the location of the first campaign so later campaigns really couldn't take place there.

When a new DM takes over we always have a new setting.