Sharing a homebrew world

[Quasqueton]

Have you ever shared a homebrew world with another DM? Not even necessarily the same campaign (same characters), but just maybe you DM the west, and he DMs the east. Or anything?

Gary Gygax and Rob Kuntz did it.

Way back in my old AD&D1 campaign world, one of my Players wanted to DM me in my world. I was reluctant, but I let him. He did well -- kept his "plot" small and localized. I enjoyed the one adventure in my own world, but I don't think I could ever do it again. Letting someone else DM my world is like letting some else kiss my wife.

Quasqueton

 

[TerraDave]

Yes! For about 10 years Terra Viejo has been developed by myself and another DM who occasionally posts here as "diamond b".

A number different campaigns have been run it over the years--some long lasting, some not--with a number of rules sets (straight 2nd ed, heavy house rule-2nd ed, options 2nd ed, all house rule, 3.0, 3.5).

Its been great!

 

[francisca]

There is talk of doing just that right now with my 1e Greyhawk game. I'll keep the west, the other guys is going to do the east, and we'll have a monstrous gameday where the two groups meet in Greyhawk City at some point.

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

I did it in college. It was an "east-west" split, and I played in the west for a couple of years, and then later ran adventures in the east (mostly) for twelve years. I don't know if the other DM ever used that game world after that first campaign ended, as we both graduated from college at around that time.

 

[John Morrow]

Have you ever shared a homebrew world with another DM? Not even necessarily the same campaign (same characters), but just maybe you DM the west, and he DMs the east. Or anything?

Most of the attempts I've had to co-design a setting haven't produced anything playable yet. Probably more my problem than not. I can be a pretty picky setting designer.

Letting someone else DM my world is like letting some else kiss my wife.

I have, however, successfully run the creator of a science fiction setting in my group in his own setting in a game co-GMed by another person in my group. We had both played in seperate games in slightly different versions of that setting. We basically wanted the designer to see his setting from the inside and wanted to demonstrate we would change or fix parts of his setting. He's currently rewriting it using some of our suggestions. It was actually quite fun.

 

[TerraDave]

Letting someone else DM my world is like letting some else kiss my wife.

Quasqueton

I think the key for us is that the focus is on the big picture...the specific campaigns are different, and can have a different style (and at points different rules, though there has been convergence since). So we (and players) still have a fair amount of freedom to make things are own.

 

[Roadkill101]

Letting someone else DM my world is like letting some else kiss my wife.

Quasqueton

I feel pretty much the same way.
The only way, I could share a Homebrew world with another GM, would require extensive collaboration designing the world. Then incorporate a lot of rules about what we could or couldn't get away with campaign-wise as GM's, to keep the flavor of that world.
So there would be no equivalent Time of Troubles as in FR (which, IMO, ruined the setting, when made official, though I dind't mind some of the smaller changes from books affecting the setting, like the introduction of Saurials and Finder Wyvernspur ascending to demi-god status).
Of all the people I've gamed with, I can only think of one person with whom I'd be able to undertake any such collaborations with and make it workable. But I'm rather content with my current game world, so I se no reason to make the attempt, though I find it a somewhat intruguing idea to do so.

 

[S'mon]

Yes, I'm currently playing in a PBEM set in 'my' world, Ea, as a player, with a DM who knows my world well. She's doing well, I answer a lot of world-fact queries but I made clear to the other players that the DM is the authority if eg she wishes to change facts & create an 'alternate' Ea. It's great getting to play Brak of Doskan, a PC I love but rarely get to use - I created him for another GM's game set on Ea 8 years ago, but it didn't last long.