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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5683285" data-attributes="member: 8835">I'll use an example I actually ran, an adaptation of Babylon5 to D&D.I told my players that the campaign would be a naval military campaign from the human perspective.  Humans had just recently discovered other islands and other races.So every player had to make a PC that could serve on a human Navy ship as officers, marines, ship's mage, etc.As a GM, this allowed me to do the following:get the party moving toward basic D&D missions as an activityexplore working to get promotedexplore recieving orders, and disobeying them when it was the right thing to doswashbuckling pirate actiona military court martiala live-action interrogationunderground railroading of innocent fugitiveswar, sacrifice and losshonor and prideBy choosing the Setting, and the PC starting point, I emphasize the kind of themes  we would be exploring without explicitely stating those themes.I was reasonably certain I could get my merry band to the Battle of the Line (and I did).  But they could have gone mutiny and that would then be a new theme (pirates!).Had I chosen the setting as "you guys are a bunch of rogues in the same thieves guild" then this big Elf vs. Human navy battle would not have been a crucial theme in the game.  let alone if I let the PCs just pick any random classes and races.For the purposes of a campaign, I don't consider that we are going to explore just 1 theme (the Battle of the Line) or even a list.  I just know that when I pick a certain starting environment, there's a number of obvious kinds of possible outcomes and stories that can come out of it.</blockquote>

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