Original Campaigns from Wizards Campaign Creation contest

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

My campaign world, Northern Crown, is more along the lines of Nyambe -- an original campaign setting with both historical and fantasy elements, but in my case, early colonial North America rather than classical Africa.

Wow, that sounds really neat. Will definitely be looking for that.

And I can't wrap my head around the idea of Eberron as "Forgotten Realms: The Sequel." If anything, it's "Forgotten Realms: Let's Make an Antithesis While Still Being Relatively High Magic."

 

[dougmander]

Have you read either Orson Scott Card's Alvin Maker books or J Gregory Keyes' Age of Unreason books? If so, are either one an inspiration? If not, I'd reccommend them. The Card gets a bit dodgy after the third book, but the first couple are winners. Keyes remains solid throughout.

I didn't read Keyes until after I developed the campaign, but it's uncannily similar in flavor. Alvin Maker, on the other hand, I did read when the books first surfaced, and I'm sure they were a major influence. (I heartily agree with your assessment of them after the third book -- major letdown).

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

Wow, that sounds really neat. Will definitely be looking for that.

Well, there's a lot of great stuff in history you can steal from. Personally, I stole quite a few things from the European Industrial Age for Urbis...

 

[diaglo]

Well, those were only the one-page proposals. Most people didn't develop their settings further after they were rejected...

i sent them whole reams of paper.

my setting looked very strangely like OD&D.

Classes:

Cleric
Fighting Man
Magic-User

Alignments:

Lawful
Neutral
Chaotic

Races:

Human
Dwarf
Elf
Hobbit

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

i sent them whole reams of paper.

my setting looked very strangely like OD&D.

Classes:

Cleric
Fighting Man
Magic-User

Well, I think it is easy to see why you were rejected - they wanted a setting for D&D3E (now 3.5E), and not something that basically removes most of the options of D&D3E, to the point of being essentially a different game.

Plus sending in "whole reams of paper" when they explicitly wanted one page probably wasn't a good idea, either...

 

[Knight Otu]

Plus sending in "whole reams of paper" when they explicitly wanted one page probably wasn't a good idea, either...

He could have sent them several one-pagers.
Of course he said setting instead of settings...
Maybe he sent the same setting multiple times?

 

[d20Dwarf]

Not Midnight!