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Do you want your setting to be Showcased here at the CBG? All you need to do is follow the link below and follow the instructions. It's that simple.
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What Is the CBG?
The Campaign Builders' Guild is your one-stop source for information and communities centered around building and creating homebrew campaign settings, adventures, and worlds for role playing games. World building and campaign building is a craft and an art, to use the words of Raelifin, and goes far beyond just simply creating locales, NPCs, and adventure locations. These things must connect to each other in some sort of fundamental way. At the Campaign Builders' Guild, we will help you achieve a mastery of this art, either through reviewing your campaign setting, critiquing your adventure, or simply basking in the wonder of your campaign world. Go to the forums and ask for help for that new kingdom you're building, and ask for advice on the new magic system you're creating. And while you're here, please ponder others' works of art. Write your own reviews on someone else's setting, and play an adventure RPG in a new campaign world. You can't go wrong.
Setting Showcase
The Opal Council has been hard at work trying to find the best ways to increase productivity here at the site, and the decision has been made to re-open the Campaign Setting Showcase! For those of you who don’t know what this is, back in the good ‘ol days of the CBG, we would showcase a setting once a week to help drive attention to that particular site. The Showcase had its merits, but for all the hard work that was put into it, it still only marginally increased reviews around the site. Well, the Opal Council has figured out a way that we think the Showcase can be successful, and it’s high time we get this wagon rolling again.
Here is what the Showcase will be all about. Unlike the last time the Showcase was active, we will not be voting and picking at random the settings to showcase. We feel that there needs to be a bit more “oomph” to the Showcase than before, and have decided not to leave the Showcase’s fate to the arbitrariness of random voting. Therefore, the Opal Council will be selecting campaign settings to Showcase for an entire month. That’s right - we are ridding ourselves of the “one setting per week,” and will be showcasing a setting for an entire month.
But Mr. Opal Council, how will you determine which setting gets Showcased for a month?
The setting will be chosen based on a number of factors, the most important one being the “completeness” of the campaign setting. If your campaign setting (or at least, a portion of it), is “complete” enough to run a series of adventures (a “campaign”) in, then most likely your setting will eventually get Showcased. As far how we pick each month’s Showcase, the Opal Council will dedicatedly review each campaign setting that is being considered, and choose one they feel best will suit the Showcase in the coming month.
So is the Opal Council going to go through all twenty pages of homebrew settings and find the ones that are “complete” enough to Showcase?
Are ya crazy?!? :: ahem :: No, we will not be going through all 200 + homebrew campaign settings on this site to determine those we feel should be Showcased. Instead, we will be taking submission forms from campaign builders and setting authors who would like to have their setting considered for Showcase. The submission form will basically just be a text file that you will send to us that will describe why your campaign setting should be Showcased, while answering several questions we have.
Oh, so then whomever you pick to Showcase, you’ll just set up some links to their thread?
Not exactly. See, that’s basically what we did last time, and as those of you who remember will recall, it didn’t work so well. So this time, we’re making sure there the Showcased setting will be very prominent on the site. First, like list time, we will set aside a sidebox here on the site which will give a quick blurb about the setting. This will basically (presumably) be the core ethos, with some sort of tagline. Think like you’re “pitching” the campaign setting to an editor, and you need to tell him in 100 words what makes your setting AWESOME. The second thing we will do, which we sometimes did before, and sometimes didn’t, is we will always post a news article for the campaign setting twice a month. We will post a news article when it first gets Showcased, and then halfway through it’s Showcase tenure, we will post another news article about it, hopefully rounding up some of the discussion that has already acrued on the setting, as well as reminding people that it’s there. The third thing we’re going to do - which is brand new, this time - is we will create a “stickied” thread at the top of the “Homebrews” forum, which will be basically a copy of your submission, but in a nice “article style” format. Fourthly, your campaign setting will be featured in the next issue of the Campaign Builders’ Guide after your Showcase.
Wow, that’s great! I’ll just be able to sit back and let the reviews come to me!
Hrmm... well, those of you who have been here for a while can atest to this - sitting around and waiting for reviews is a good way to ensure that you won’t get any reviews. Reviewing here at the CBG has been mostly a passive process - you post your information, then step back and hope someone reviews it. We hope to change that. The increased presence of your setting, as the Showcased setting's creator, comes with an additional responsibility; the best way to get reviews is to give them yourself, so Showcased authors should be active participants during their month in other threads as well. Answer questions that are asked of your setting, answer quickly, but also go out and ask other people about their settings. It’s a surefire way to get people to see that you’re around, and thus spark interest. The Opal Council will do everything it can to make sure that everyone who comes to this site knows your Showcased setting exists, but you need to take an active role in the Showcase to make sure that people don’t lose interest.
Great, so how do I get started?
The first thing you need to do is take a good, long look at your setting, and determine if you're ready for it to be Showcased. Obviously we're not judging anyone's setting here on whether or not it's ready to be published (because if we were, only one or two at most would even be considered), but looking at your setting from a publisher's perspective can help you determine the readiness of it. If you're still not sure what races you're going to use, and which nation follows what religion, and if your cosmology is going to be a "great wheel" a "great tree" or a "great hamster," then chances are, you should probably tidy things up a bit. However, if you've already played some adventures in your campaign, written stories in the world, and know the inner and outer workings of the nations and the deities, then we see no reason why you wouldn't be ready to be Showcased.
Once you determine you're ready, keep scrolling down on this page, and look for the "Campaign Setting Submission Form." Copy and paste all the questions to a text document, and answer them to the best of your ability. Don't rush; once you've submitted, you won't have to resubmit each month, so you can take your time and make sure all the information is as accurate as possible. Once you've gotten your document ready, email it to thecbg.org gmail com. Once we've received it, we will email you to let you know we have it, and then we will email you once again when we've decided to Showcase it. Keep in mind, if we only get three submissions, then the longest you'll have to wait is three months to see your setting Showcased. However, if we get the kind of submissions we would like (10 - 20), it may be awhile before your setting is Showcased. Feel free to send a follow-up email every now and then, especially if you need to change anything.
The Showcase will run from the 16th through the 15th of a month - for example, if we select your setting to be Showcased in the upcoming Showcase, it will be Showcased from April 16th through May 15th.
We will be taking submissions as of the posting of this news. Feel free to comment on, ask questions about, or gripe at this article in the comments below.
Cheers!
-Ishmayl, Overlord Extraordinaire
The Opal Council
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Campaign Setting Showcase Submission Form
It is really easy to get your campaign submitted into the Setting Showcase. All you need to do is copy all the text below, and then past it into the word processor of your choice. All questions need to be answered to the best of your ability, with as much detail as you can muster. If your entire submission is filled with short, one-to-five word answers, it will make it very hard for us to determine the quality of the setting. The very last question is only if you would like your setting to be included in the World Walkers story line that we are currently working on. Answering "no" to it does not disqualify you from Setting Showcase, it just means your setting won't be written about. Once complete, send it via electronic mail to:
thecbg.org gmail com
We'll take it from there.
Cheers!
Why do you feel your setting should be featured?
What makes it unique, and how?
If selected, what things would you like reviews to focus on?
What parts of the setting do you need particular help with?
Describe your setting in three to four complete sentences, highlighting what you feel are its strengths.
If you do not use the rules found in the SRD, briefly describe your modifications or system.
What would you cite as inspirations for your setting?
What content have you written for your setting?
What have you revised?
What do you plan on writing?
Pick one passage from the content you've written that is particularly interesting, or that you feel captures the feeling of your setting.
Please link to all relevant sites and threads, and provide a working e-mail address to be contacted by.
Are you willing to allow other writers and authors to write fictional stories inside your campaign world? (This will be for the revivification of the World Walkers story line)