What's happened to your scrapped projects?

[Ry]

You know, when I saw this thread, and the author who started it, I figured it was going to be a pitch for your Great Hundred project. I'm just surprised it took you until post #48 to do it, although to be fair you did hint at it earlier.

You can't imagine how difficult it was to restrain myself as much as I did.

But I should emphasize: It's not MY project - it's OUR project. Whatever goes in can become the next setting for your RPG, or ideas for your next novel, or the "distant land to the south" in your existing campaign. Free and Free-like-speech!

 

[Minicol]

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?

someday, I will dust it off, and inflict it on my poor, harmless innocent players...

then i shall .... RULLEEEE THEEEE WOOOOOORLD ! MWAHAHAHAHA !

 

[Orius]

I still have most of my old campaign notes. The stuff from the first campaign I started off when I first started playing is gone; those only lasted a handful of sessions anyway. I still have mostly everything from the two campaign worlds I created later. At the moment, I've been sort of wavering between revamping the second world which I used during the last year of 2e and during 3e or just scrapping it and creating something new. I have some elements of a third world I've been working on while trying to make up my mind, and that world cannibalized elements from the first two worlds that I liked (more from my second world, since that was better designed and had more development). That's why I still have the old notes, because I recycle my good ideas.

The hesitation is pretty much because of 4e; some of the changes seem pretty radical, and I don't want to create something 3e based that I'm going to have to completely reinvent.

Much of it is handwritten notes and hand-drawn maps. I have some electronic data stashed away, but I really like writing stuff down on paper rather than typing it out. The same with hand-drawn maps, but I've also never found any sort of mapping software for mapping outdoor areas that I liked.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I have piles and piles of files and files, dating back to about 1982 or so.

Some, unfortunately, are incomplete- I did a HERO campaign set in 1900, and typed up most of the campaign info- including a PC spreadsheet- into Microsoft Word & Works (Mac). When Microsoft threw everything into Microsoft Office, they included Excel and didn't support a translation from Works into Excel, so all I have left are my (incomplete) hardcopies.

I'm also missing my main working copy of the best homebrew D&D adventure I ever ran (the players- veterans all- who went through it actually complemented me!), although I do have most of my design notes.

OTOH, my campaign notes from a RIFTS campaign I ran back in 1992 are complete, including a list of the allowed O.C.C.s and R.C.C.s, with a quick descriptive blurb and sourcebook listing, for the convenience of my players.

Currently, almost everything I've designed in the past 2 years has either wound up in a Word file on my Mac, on my Palm Tungsten E2 or in a bookmarked thread on ENWorld.

 

[Achan hiArusa]

Gives me an excuse for websurfing (heh):

Masque of the Red Death: There is a defunct url on James Wyatt's Site (http://www.aquela.com), but my latest version can be found on: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/motrd/files/ under Mortd3etemplate.pdf

Empire of the Petal Throne: My latest version can be found on:

http://www.tekumel.com/gaming_rulesDD3.html

I still need to update the spell and power lists to 3.5. My 3e version can be found at:

http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/byzantium/55/ept3e.htm

My old 3.0 Dark Sun conversion can be found at:

http://members.fortunecity.com/quebec/dsgrimes.htm

My 3.5 conversion is on my laptop and desktop and in the hands of a few people (I drew heavily from the Paizo version but fixed a few things).

My 3.0 conversion of Gamma World (pre Sword and Sorcery) can be found at:

http://www.angelfire.com/games/Alterniverse/gammad20.htm

My other conversions for Oriental Adventures, guns, Exalted, and other stuff is probably out there somewhere. I still run into my name every once in awhile.

Most of the stuff I had on my computer in storage has been transferred but I have a (preS&S) conversion of Ravenloft, a rewrite I made of DragonStar to make it more of a mix between D&D and Star Wars, a World of Darkness template for Vampires (preMcWoD), prestige classes for vampires based on the various disciplines, a Trinity d20 conversion that predates the Trinity d20 Game (I used standard psionics for this one), My Hard Vacuum game which was a cross between Transhuman Space and Trinity, a rewrite of Aberrant using both Mutants and Masterminds and New World of Darkness, a Bughunters game using the New World of Darkness, a Rifts conversion, a d20 game using 7th Sea, Bushido, Legends of the Nine Rings, and the Book of Nine Swords for playing in a Nagasaki-like city where the "French" took it over like the British took over Hong Kong, and tons of other files. Also I am working on making a coherent SRD that does a smooth progression from D&D to Modern, and I'm thinking about creating a game using that and the Runequest SRD.

I still work on all of them at some point in time. My friends wonder why I just don't strike out in my own direction and create my own game one of these days.

 

[DragonLancer]

Anything that was hardcopy has been thrown out over the years, which is a shame.

On my PC I have shedloads of ideas and notes that may or may not ever see use in my games.

 

[megamania]

Collect dust within 3 ring folders on the shelf or within a box.



Every so often I pull stuff out for inspiration, ideas and / or to run

 

[FalcWP]

I've got stuff stored here and there. A few notebooks with various ideas jotted down, a bunch of half-formed ideas on a flash drive, an old folder that has some looseleaf sheets as well as my first few character sheets, quite a bit that's rattling around in my head... most of it either isn't useful, or got incorporated into another game. Taking a quick look through some stuff, we have....

-One campaign setting in MS OneNote that I put some actual work into, and would like to finish and run some day - magic is rare, a tool of the nobility, lots of small baronies, etc.
-A second campaign setting, also in OneNote, that's basically "take the Greco-Roman world, put fantasy races in place of the various nations, and go from there". I'll probably swing back to the idea at some point, but I've poked at this a number of times and my enthusiasm never lasts.
-A half-finished map and some notes on a third campaign world that would have been very, very generic D&D, in what was once a math notebook. I made this back in, oh, 2004 when I started to try my hand at DMing. I think we actually ran a session or two. Very unlikely it will ever again see the light of a gaming table.
-Yet another notebook (I think this one was a chem notebook, but I never took much for notes there...) which has the info from the very first game I ever ran, a Star Wars game.
-A few dozen ideas for adventures or campaigns in a text file - the one thing here that gets used regularly, as I'll add to it and draw ideas from it as appropriate. But many of the ideas should probably just be junked.
-A few actual adventures that I've never gotten to run, and would need quite a bit of work to update to my current house rules, so they'll likely sit for a million years. Some digital, some still in notebooks or on loose leaf.
-A Word file with details on a few shops and shopkeepers I was working on - figured I'd make a whole bunch of shopkeepers, complete with unique items and potential plot hooks, and always have someone interesting handy when the players went shopping. Only got two or three shops finished, but one of them did actually see some game time in my current campaign, so maybe an idea I'll go back to.

Some day, I should really organize all of this, transfer the hardcopy stuff I want to keep to a digital format, etc.