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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 786875" data-attributes="member: 7240">Well, I came back to D&D because I wanted to work within the narrowest, most archetypal fantasy genre. For years, I did very strange, unique worlds that pushed the margins of the genre; one day, I decided it would be an exciting challenge to try to be creative within the genre at its most narrowly-defined. It's kind of like writing a sonnet, or an episode of the A-Team (remember, at 42 minutes past the hour, the team must be building something) -- sometimes it is enjoyable and interesting to produce something when you have all of these confining requirements placed on you. I've found it a bit of a challenge to design plots within the confines of the circumscribed list of spells, nine alignments, carefully described monsters, etc. It brings out a different kind of creativity.That said, I've done a number of campaigns worlds pretty far off the beaten path. For example, I did a game set in North America in 1247 based on Mormon mythology, Celtic mythology, apocryphal and factural stories of pre-Columbian contact and actual aboriginal histories and oral traditions. One centrepiece scene I never got to do was the Map Room of the Western Northwoods Empire in Saskatoon, where there is a continuous evolving song describing all the locations in the empire, constantly being updated by different people arriving in the capital with their own stories of travel within the empire.Another game I did was set in a land called Albion, the White Land, based entirely on William Blake's myth and symbol system which was actually set in the far future in a collapsing artificial lunar colony. Unfortunately, D&D is ill-suited for such worlds; one ends up having to rewrite so many of the rules that you might just as well design a simple set of custom rules instead.</blockquote>

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