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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scribble" data-source="post: 3008466" data-attributes="member: 23977">Well, it's fun in some ways... Like writing, or painting, or anything creative really... You're making something that wasn't smething before you made it... It might be a lot of work, but still... As for the vanilla ones there are lots of people who paint bowls of fruit... But they still do it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />My current world I'm working on isn't super unique... But it's exactly how *I* want it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Other worlds tend to have a few things that just don't fit right for me. Sure I could change them, but shrug, why not make my own world up.Presently I have a campaign that only uses 1 god. (although unknown to the characters there may be others..) Which effects the entire campaign setting a good deal... I also tend to forget a lot from pre published campaign settings... With my homebrew, I seem to remember everything that's happening... I guess cause I made it happen.. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />I also use mainly pdfs and stuff I've transferred to word files to write my adventures... My homebrew sits along with my various rule books on a USB flash drive... All the maps and documents and npcs and magic items and everything are all filed away on that drive... It's normally in my pocket, so I can use it anywhere... It's nice... If I wanted to do that with a published setting I'd have to retype almost everything anyway, so why not put the effort into something of my own?Finally, I'm not always a fan of how everyone knows just about EVERYTHING about published settings... I like the sense of wonder players have when they, along with their characters trapse into unknown territory, or meet up with a new group or organization that they have no idea about... Do I steal ideas? Heck yeah!I really like most of the organizations in the Secrets and Societies book from Scarred Lands... I've ganked a few. Rename them, change a few things to mold it to my own campaign... But a good deal of the crunching and fluffing (err that sounds bad...) has been done already.But I think thats normal for every "art" form out there... If you're into movies you'll notice filmmakers tend to "nod" to eachother all the time.</blockquote>

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