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<blockquote data-quote="paradox42" data-source="post: 5636775" data-attributes="member: 29746">For building a campaign from the ground up, and with no information about the players or starting territory, the question can't be answered honestly by anything except &quot;all of the above.&quot; Different players find different sorts of information useful- serious roleplayers who like writing character backstories, for example, will want lots of world history and &quot;fluff&quot; text, while dedicated powergamers will insist on detailed mechanical rules (i.e. &quot;crunch&quot;) that they can tinker with to build optimized characters.In other words, we can't really answer the question; our opinions will not necessarily match the opinions of your own players. Best solution is to just go to your players and find out from them what they want: though admittedly, many players will just answer something like &quot;anything you can give us&quot; and leave you back at square one. This is when you'll have to fall back on knowledge about their gaming styles.This is why it can help to do some research and find already-published settings that you can <s>steal</s> er... &quot;borrow&quot; from. In your case, I'd suggest looking at Dragonstar; it probably has a lot of what you want. One attempt to convert it from 3.X to Pathfinder can be found <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/dragonstarreboot/" target="_blank">here</a>.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="paradox42, post: 5636775, member: 29746"] For building a campaign from the ground up, and with no information about the players or starting territory, the question can't be answered honestly by anything except "all of the above." Different players find different sorts of information useful- serious roleplayers who like writing character backstories, for example, will want lots of world history and "fluff" text, while dedicated powergamers will insist on detailed mechanical rules (i.e. "crunch") that they can tinker with to build optimized characters. In other words, [B]we[/B] can't really answer the question; our opinions will not necessarily match the opinions of your own players. Best solution is to just go to your players and find out from them what they want: though admittedly, many players will just answer something like "anything you can give us" and leave you back at square one. This is when you'll have to fall back on knowledge about their gaming styles. This is why it can help to do some research and find already-published settings that you can [s]steal[/s] er... "borrow" from. In your case, I'd suggest looking at Dragonstar; it probably has a lot of what you want. One attempt to convert it from 3.X to Pathfinder can be found [URL="http://sites.google.com/site/dragonstarreboot/"]here[/URL]. [/QUOTE]

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