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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Knightfall" data-source="post: 845283" data-attributes="member: 2012">While I agree that campaigns like EGG's Greyhawk and Arneson's Blackmoor originally 'defined' evocative and inspiring, I'm going to have to disagree with the rest of it.Gamers are always looking for that next big campaign setting to play, because there isn't anything like finding a new campaign setting with new concepts to explore or 'swipe' for one's own homebrew campaign setting.  Remember when Dark Sun first cam out... it was fresh, new, and most importantly different.And now, now the Internet provides gamers a chance to explore not only commercial campaign settings, but those homebrew settings of their peers.  EN World is the BEST resource for learning about new campaigns and ideas.How many people have been inspired by the tales of the Defenders or another great story hour, and added certain elements from what they read or rules and/or background material from the author.And from another point of view, Darrin Drader's Galovinius campaign is a good example of a homebrew campaign setting that has been well received by the Internet community, WAY before D20 hit.  Michael Morris' Dusk setting as well.Even if a 'Homebrew Fan' never plays a session in someone else homebrew campaign setting they often use elements of such campaigns, adding them to their own settings or use well-designed homebrew world Internet sites and/or documents to help redesign their own work, so it stands out more.Ask yourself P'Cat, if Monte Cook decided to release Ptolus as a PDF * or book, would you add it to your collection?  (And not just because it's Monte!)* I'm pretty sure this doesn't exist.Now what if Darrin had such references for his Galovinius campaign?  Would you consider it?  (Well, guess what, he does.)You just proved my point. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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