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Post by Admin Pete on Oct 18, 2016 14:33:15 GMT -5
Just wondering, have you ever created a campaign world completely from scratch?
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Post by Admin Pete on Oct 18, 2016 14:34:36 GMT -5
I create my worlds completely from the whole cloth and am curious about what others do.
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Post by hengest on Oct 18, 2016 19:06:21 GMT -5
How "from scratch"? I assume it can still be from scratch if it has elves or dwarves in some form (or re-skinned). Is that right? Or did you mean "absolutely everything new and utterly unique"?
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Post by Admin Pete on Oct 18, 2016 21:00:47 GMT -5
How "from scratch"? I assume it can still be from scratch if it has elves or dwarves in some form (or re-skinned). Is that right? Or did you mean "absolutely everything new and utterly unique"? Yes, it can have elves and dwarves, etc. By from scratch, I mean inspired from original literary sources (such as Tolkien), myth, legend, folklore and the like. Not pre-filltered through modern 3rd party eyes. I do mean with your own take on it, not imitating another existing campaign world. Now if you have the time, energy and creativity to do "absolutely everything new and utterly unique," that would be fantastic. Most of us do have day jobs so we can't really do that 100%, but that is what I wish I could have done for the last 40+ years. My current campaign does not have elves, dwarfs, hobbits or gnomes as PCs and there are no npcs of that type on the continent that the players are currently on. There may be some version of them in other parts of the world. |
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Post by robkuntz on Oct 19, 2016 1:56:46 GMT -5
I created mine from both "scratch" and an "itch".  |
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Post by Mighty Darci on Oct 19, 2016 14:50:00 GMT -5
I am going to go out on a limb here and vote yes, because I am determined  to do so. |
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Post by hengest on Oct 19, 2016 15:16:19 GMT -5
I'm not voting because I've never actually run it, but I'm working on something that would qualify.
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Post by Admin Pete on Oct 19, 2016 15:43:24 GMT -5
I'm not voting because I've never actually run it, but I'm working on something that would qualify. I will accept that vote!  |
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Post by Necromancer on Oct 19, 2016 15:51:49 GMT -5
Yes, I have. I've actually created a few over the years - as for quality and originality, well, that's a completely different question...  |
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Post by LouGoncey on Oct 20, 2016 4:49:07 GMT -5
I voted 50% because I have both created my own setting and I have gamed both in Greyhawk and the City of the Invincible Overlord.
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Post by Crimhthan The Great on Oct 20, 2016 14:17:52 GMT -5
I voted 50% because I have both created my own setting and I have gamed both in Greyhawk and the City of the Invincible Overlord. I don't think you are disqualified from choosing the first option, just because that is not the only option you have used, just my 2cps. I voted 100% original, every time and always. |
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Post by Admin Pete on Oct 24, 2016 8:29:18 GMT -5
I am running the same poll here over at the ODD74 site and I have gotten a lot of comments about what constitutes "from scratch" and that people were not clear on what I meant and what qualifies. I am going to post below my comments to those questions. |
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Post by robkuntz on Oct 24, 2016 8:48:39 GMT -5
It's pretty simple. Whatever the source was for creating the first Dungeons, campaign areas and worlds, they were from scratch. Without the use of premade game materials (besides what is contained in the rules). There were no premade sources then, they all had to be made up to fit into the game structure. Arneson starts this and is the the truest source for making it from scratch. Barker retro-converts his world, which is influenced by other sources, but then made from scratch and later inserted into a D&D game. We can take it to wider and widening levels and start making all the monsters and magic, etc., as well, But in either case as long as you are creating everything from the sources it's from scratch, or MIY. Now, people may argue as they lift things whole cloth from premade sources and say that that is consonant with the rules themselves as a premade source, and that is where some of the difficulty in interpreting "from scratch" may derive. But if you just use the rules themselves and no premade sources after that and thereby create and modify the content on your own that pretty much explains it.
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Post by jeff on Oct 31, 2016 11:51:44 GMT -5
I'll volunteer as odd-man out. I've only ever used gaming worlds (and voted such). I've often wanted to, but find that I have very little time these days (and apparently had little or no imagination as a teen in the late 80s/early and mid 90s). That's changing as I think through how to handle collaborative creation between myself and players. That being said, I think the fallacy is simply in me and is more of a lack of desire than anything else.  |
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Post by Admin Pete on Oct 31, 2016 12:08:06 GMT -5
I'll volunteer as odd-man out. I've only ever used gaming worlds (and voted such). I've often wanted to, but find that I have very little time these days (and apparently had little or no imagination as a teen in the late 80s/early and mid 90s). That's changing as I think through how to handle collaborative creation between myself and players. That being said, I think the fallacy is simply in me and is more of a lack of desire than anything else. There is nothing wrong with using an existing game world. That is not the point. Do you and your players have fun? If so then that is all that really matters. I do want to encourage and promote original creative work, but not in a way that says there is something wrong if you don't do that. Whether you create from scratch or use an existing world or somewhere in between have fun and I encourage you to place your own stamp on it. |
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Post by Von on Nov 15, 2016 3:15:28 GMT -5
I whittle away at one from time to time, but I have yet to set a game there. The vast majority of my Actual Play these days is either one-off games at conventions (for which I generally design an original module for someone else's setting or world), or an instalment of an episodic World of Darkness game (for which I gleefully take scalpel and spanner to the published material since so much of it is rubbish).
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Nov 27, 2016 21:10:47 GMT -5
Yes. It's the same world I've always been working on. Sometimes the games are planned for the first age and some times for the second age. There's plenty of parts inspired by other sources and they aren't really difficult to figure out.
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Post by True Black Raven on Mar 17, 2018 12:04:29 GMT -5
Creating worlds from scratch is fun in and of itself. I would continue to do it even if I knew I would never get to play any of them.
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Post by robkuntz on Mar 17, 2018 14:18:04 GMT -5
Creating worlds from scratch is fun in and of itself. I would continue to do it even if I knew I would never get to play any of them. Ah. A true lover of the creative spirit! Have an exalt! |
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Post by True Black Raven on Mar 17, 2018 15:13:00 GMT -5
Creating worlds from scratch is fun in and of itself. I would continue to do it even if I knew I would never get to play any of them. Ah. A true lover of the creative spirit! Have an exalt! Thanks! Creating worlds is fun and brings a sense of satisfaction that is found in very few things. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2018 19:00:39 GMT -5
I have!
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Post by mormonyoyoman on Mar 18, 2018 2:03:02 GMT -5
Not really. Have merely used the world I've seen around me, then extrapolated what it would be like if fantasy existed as a tangible thing, or superheroes existed, or what the future might be like If. Then I would simply set these campaigns at different eras of our Earth, usually in a far, far future - and call it Great Honk no matter what the residents might call it.
Swiping items from other game worlds? As blatantly as I'd swipe from any work of fiction, from myth, from theoretical physics, or from archeology. I had no shame.
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Post by Hexenritter Verlag on Mar 18, 2018 23:36:52 GMT -5
Though I am working on a home version of Forgotten Realms based solely on the 1e FR Gray Box, as a alternate setting for more 1e style games I generally create my setting ground up & will do so with my World of Skarn revisions.
If you are asking if I am influenced by other settings? Sure, from RPGs, comics, anime/film & fiction, but I do not generally use those worlds directly, just tropes from them.
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Post by Dartanian on Mar 26, 2018 22:44:35 GMT -5
While I believe that mine are completely from scratch, there is no wrong answer in this poll.
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Post by mao on Jun 4, 2018 14:48:28 GMT -5
Ive made more gameworlds than I remember........
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Post by Jakob Grimm on Jun 4, 2018 17:42:19 GMT -5
The Whole Cloth, I picked the cotton and started from there and by and by I had a tapestry.
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Post by Hexenritter Verlag on Jun 5, 2018 20:16:04 GMT -5
darn skippy I did, two recent ones are in semi-development (On hiatus at the moment) & three seeds of min-regional ones being germinated.
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Post by Robert the Black on Jun 21, 2018 9:32:50 GMT -5
I do them all from scratch, I have built several that I have never gotten to run.
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Post by Yaleric on Jun 29, 2018 20:37:10 GMT -5
The Whole Cloth Several Times.
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Post by Warrior Twin One on Aug 20, 2018 23:56:40 GMT -5
Yes, started from nothing and built it all myself.
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to do so.
