What's happened to your scrapped projects?

[Ry]

I think a lot of us have old half-finished campaign settings, half-written RPG products, and notes from old campaigns.

What have you done with that stuff?

 

[Agamon]

It sits on my PC, collecting dgital dust. I tossed a lot of hard copy stuff from the old days a long time ago.

 

[GlassJaw]

Stored away in the dark recesses of my brain.

 

[questing gm]

still in the works.......eventually

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

Gone and never to be resurrected. It was my first 3.0 campaign, and in my zeal to create a unique campaign setting, the whole thing came unraveled and my players, as well as myself, lost interest in it. Only one of my group has any interest in it, and he brings it up every now and then, but it's dead and buried. Other, older edition settings have been retired because most of the key players moved away, and they just weren't the same without them, while even older ones just ran their course and ended.

 

[KingCrab]

My old stuff: in a sealed box at my mother's house about half hour from where I live.

The recent stuff: In a Word document I never go to. Sometimes I think about a new idea for that setting, but it seems I'll never run it so I don't usually bother to write it down.

 

[Ry]

In my zeal to create a unique campaign setting, the whole thing came unraveled and my players, as well as myself, lost interest in it.

Do you still have any of it in an old file somewhere?

 

[DrunkonDuty]

Which ones?

Older ones, on hard copy: mostly gone. But not entirely. I still find occasional NPC character sheets in strange corners. Had the great luck last year to discover that a mate of mine, to whom I gave all my gaming stuff about 10 years ago, still had my old Palladium campaign notes stuffed away in the box with my old Palladium books.

More recently: all on my PC. I have three campaign settings sitting on my PC that I have not used. Well, one of them just got it's first run 2 weeks ago. Still not sure how it's going cos I'm using lots of house rules and the players are mostly new-ish to gaming. The others are sitting there, biding their time patiently. They know their chance will come. And when it does, bwha-hah-hah-hah.

Oh, this calls for a much quoted quote: That is not dead which can eternal lie, for in strange eons even death may die.

Actually I really would like to bring my "Beyond the Keep on the Borderlands" campaign to life one day. I'd love to stand there by its side while the lightning strikes crying, "It's alive!" And much like Frankenstein's Adam it's made from disparate parts. Original inspiration from KotB. Tribal cultures ripped off from vastly different times and places from real life. BBEG ripped straight out of Mordor. And of course the PCs are all meant to be humanoids, which idea I got from a Dragon Mag all those years ago.

 

[Ry]

Man, I'd love to pick over some of that BtKotB for the Great Hundred.

 

[Simia Saturnalia]

It languishes in forgotten boxes, has been recycled into new paper, occupies otherwise unused brain space, was lost in the failure of my two desktop hard drives, or now collects dust on my laptop hard drive.

's all over the place, really.