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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 2043905" data-attributes="member: 8447">Ah, creating worlds!  What a wonderful adventure!When I started off, years ago (1971 or 72), with miniature wargaming, I loved developing the scenarios for the battles much more than actually fighting them out.  Over time I became the referee, settling rules disputes and creating the terrain and victory conditions, never actually fighting on one side or the other.Any wonder why it was easy to work over to being a GM?When I first got D&D, there was no setting.  There was only the idea of going into a dungeon and, after the fact, of going into the wilderness and randomly slaughtering monsters and taking their treasures.  With time this became a bit dull and I created a world to fit this into.  By the time Blackmoor came out I already had my own world that functioned a bit differently from what Arneson and Gygax saw as a "real" D&D world.  I saw a couple of the early adventures, wasn't too impressed with them, and simply went my own way.Now, after nearly 30 years of rpging, I simply cannot imagine running someone else's world.  It would be like wearing someone else's suit -- it might be okay, but the fit isn't quite right.  So over the years I have created a couple dozen worlds, some as one-shots, some as part of long campaigns.  The interesting thing that I have found is that my players now have less and a less interest in places like Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk, Eberron, and the rest -- they prefer being in our own world, the one we jointly create.  Food for thought.  <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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