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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Herobizkit" data-source="post: 2820394" data-attributes="member: 36150">My best advice would be to pick one system that you can apply more or less equally to any setting and extrapolate a homebrew world from there.  Then, figure out what kind of story elements people are looking for in their settings of choice, and collectively come up with a mutual agreement of game reality.For example, in one campaign I ran I used d20 rules exclusively.  One guy wanted a futuristic sci-fi extravanga complete with mechs, lasers and computers; my second player wanted a grim-n-gritty detective kind of story; my third player wanted to stick to more "traditional" fantasy.So, I took d20 core, d20 Modern, d20 Future and d20 Urban Arcana and I came up with a really great scenario.  The game started in Modern; the PCs were recruited by a group of Shadow Hunters who were hunting D&D monsters cloaked as regular people and animals (this is the core Urban Arcana setting).  Once they discovered the ties to the Shadow Realm, I had them flitting in and out of the traditional D&D world at random (this makes for awesome lazy DMing; just plug and play any d20 fantasy module and away you go).  This happened back and forth until it was revealed that neither "reality" was real; both were inside a computer program Matrix-style and their REAL personas were aboard a starship in space whose computers had developed a homicidal AI.  To stop it, they donned transforming power armor (Cyclones from the Robotech saga), BFG's, and drove through the mile-long ship shooting any kind of resistance (and having an awesome bike duel with vibro-lances) until they came across a ginat scorpion-shaped mecha, where they used their mini-missiles to obliterate it and save the day.  Yay!Everyone got a piece of the action they were looking for, everyone "chipped in" for campaign ideas based on their character concepts, and by the end, a great time was had by all.  Give it a go, and see what kind of craziness your group can create.</blockquote>

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