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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Altalazar" data-source="post: 1256560" data-attributes="member: 939">I built my campaign world basically from scratch (really, from a hard boiled egg - see world building thread... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  )  But I do the same thing.  I mix and match - I build things into my world using inspiration from all over.  Of course, I will likely change the name of something if it isn't "generic" or otherwise a good fit for my world.  And I don't put in things that alter the flavor - instead I alter what I find so it fits my world's flavor.  Sometimes that means a major change, sometimes that means a purely cosmetic one, from what is in whatever sourcebook i've used.  I like it that way because it allows me to have my own world and yet still get plenty of use and inspiration out of other supplements.  I admit to buying all of the WotC stuff, but 3rd party d20 stuff I only buy if I look through it and see some things that I know I will use.  So I've not gotten much 3rd party stuff, mostly because I haven't had the time to really thumb through it and make a judgment about buying.  (With the exception of Ravenloft, which I knew I'd get everything for - love that stuff)For specifics, well, I'll have to wait til tomorrow.  One major thing I used was the specialty priests back in 2E.  I took those as a base (a subset of them) to build my pantheon, which I then customized.  I now have converted them partially over to 3E (which I used for my 3E campaigns) but due to the lack of spell circle stuff, I will have to do some things to balance the other abilities I gave them.  I'm likely going to end up with a distinct cleric base class for each diety (or even more than one) by the time I'm done with it.  To start off with, I just took domains from supplements like FR to augment my lists - because some of those were more approrpriate than any of those found in the base books for certain of my dieties.</blockquote>

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