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<blockquote data-quote="tsadkiel" data-source="post: 1417992" data-attributes="member: 262"><p>Not quite this very thing . . . Keith is talking about meta-plot, while I'm talking about something else. Let me give an example, and I'm afraid the details are going to be a bit vague, since the example refers to books I got rid of years ago.</p><p></p><p>Back when the very first Forgotten Realms boxed set came out, I ran a Realms campaign. Something about the boxed set's very brief description of Chessenta inspired me - they mentioned city states, hedonism, a few other brief details. So I made Chessenta a part of my game, and since I didn't have much to go on, I lifted details from other sources, along with a few ideas of my own, and my Chessenta looked like a cross between Renaissance Italy and a version of Rio where it was Carnivale every day. It was cool, and my players and I had fun.</p><p></p><p>Eventually, I picked up a copy of <em>Old Empires</em>, and immediately turned to the section on Chessenta, only to discover that Chessenta is basically ancient Greece with the names changed. Now I know I could have just ignored <em>Old Empires</em> - for that game I <strong>did</strong> ignore <em>Old Empires</em>, though I used it in other games since it is a cool book. But at that point I was subtracting from the setting. I don't want to subtract from the settings I use, I want to add to them, because adding is more fun. If that makes any sense.</p><p></p><p>Now Eberron, IIRC, is going to cover the entire planet, rather than just one area of one continent. Obviously the core book will be very vague about things, with other supplements filling in the gaps later. But that still cuts down on my wiggle room; with the world that developed, I won't even have blank spaces on the map to drop in Mindshadows or Nyambe or whatever.</p><p></p><p>So I wish Eberron well. I'm sure I'll be picking up particular Eberron books to steal things from; I know I'll be picking up the April Dragon because I really like the Warforged. But Eberron will not be my campaign world.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tsadkiel, post: 1417992, member: 262"] Not quite this very thing . . . Keith is talking about meta-plot, while I'm talking about something else. Let me give an example, and I'm afraid the details are going to be a bit vague, since the example refers to books I got rid of years ago. Back when the very first Forgotten Realms boxed set came out, I ran a Realms campaign. Something about the boxed set's very brief description of Chessenta inspired me - they mentioned city states, hedonism, a few other brief details. So I made Chessenta a part of my game, and since I didn't have much to go on, I lifted details from other sources, along with a few ideas of my own, and my Chessenta looked like a cross between Renaissance Italy and a version of Rio where it was Carnivale every day. It was cool, and my players and I had fun. Eventually, I picked up a copy of [i]Old Empires[/i], and immediately turned to the section on Chessenta, only to discover that Chessenta is basically ancient Greece with the names changed. Now I know I could have just ignored [i]Old Empires[/i] - for that game I [b]did[/b] ignore [i]Old Empires[/i], though I used it in other games since it is a cool book. But at that point I was subtracting from the setting. I don't want to subtract from the settings I use, I want to add to them, because adding is more fun. If that makes any sense. Now Eberron, IIRC, is going to cover the entire planet, rather than just one area of one continent. Obviously the core book will be very vague about things, with other supplements filling in the gaps later. But that still cuts down on my wiggle room; with the world that developed, I won't even have blank spaces on the map to drop in Mindshadows or Nyambe or whatever. So I wish Eberron well. I'm sure I'll be picking up particular Eberron books to steal things from; I know I'll be picking up the April Dragon because I really like the Warforged. But Eberron will not be my campaign world. [/QUOTE]
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