In the beginning...
Starting a new D&D Campaign is alway a big headache to some. You have this neat idea about how the setting would look like, but when you decide to begin fleshing it out, you suddenly find yourself lacking so much information that you just didn't think of...
That's when I decided to take the small steps on creating a tiny portion of the world and keep my mind open to anything I might come across. I began by picking up the main theme that I wanted my new campaign to have, Buccaneers and High Adventure.
I began by "founding" the major city in the area that the campaign would begin, Tavernhall. Once a cove used by pirates that evolved into a burstling town of Trade & Commerce.
I continued by populating the area with another small village/hamlet and another small port town on the frontier and thought to myself, that's where I'll base my beginning adventures.
I used a short Modified Dungeon Magazine adventure to bring the PCs together and establish the main theme of the campaign through it. I think it captured the spirit of the theme and set the PCs to find thier own ventures in the new campaign.
That's when I decided to take the small steps on creating a tiny portion of the world and keep my mind open to anything I might come across. I began by picking up the main theme that I wanted my new campaign to have, Buccaneers and High Adventure.
I began by "founding" the major city in the area that the campaign would begin, Tavernhall. Once a cove used by pirates that evolved into a burstling town of Trade & Commerce.
I continued by populating the area with another small village/hamlet and another small port town on the frontier and thought to myself, that's where I'll base my beginning adventures.
I used a short Modified Dungeon Magazine adventure to bring the PCs together and establish the main theme of the campaign through it. I think it captured the spirit of the theme and set the PCs to find thier own ventures in the new campaign.
posted by DM T. at 17.8.05
1 Comments:
(Caligula minus)Have you thought about molding into your campaign some real stories, from the antique times- like from dark ages and back further?
Molding history with a campaign can be a good thing, especially when some of the players are familiar with that piece of history. It can make the campaign much more easy to "submerge" into, since you can visualize it more vibrantly.
Unfortunately, it can also be much more cumbersome to the DM. The easy part is the way to incorporate things into the campaign, the hard part is "fixing" the player's knowledge of what exactly transpired at that period of time.
One may already know how a certain battle resolved and if the DM changed it in his world, then setting the mindset of the player around that may be a bit problematic.
I think it's very dependant on both the DM & the players as well as on the whole campaign.
As for my current world, I don't see any historical battles or events that I wish to incorporate at this moment.
DM T.
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