It has always struck me as being rather funny: we bill ourselves as the campaign builderâ,¬,,¢s guild, but mostly what we build here are not campaigns, but worlds to have campaigns to play in. So, Iâ,¬,,¢m curious if anyone here has actually written a campaign theyâ,¬,,¢d share with us, or ideas for campaigns for your worlds, someone elseâ,¬,,¢s world, or just generic campaigns. Letâ,¬,,¢s see what youâ,¬,,¢ve got!
Yeah, I always figured "Campaign" was short for "Campaign World." X-)
There is a tiny silent and invisible s in CBG right between the C and the B, which stands for setting. :)
That has been the single thing that bothers me most about the CBG, but I suffer in silence for your benefit!
Now, shower me with pity!
It bugged me too, at first. I have since learned to cope with the idiosyncracies of our community's name.
However, building a campaign is one of my intended projects on the horizon. Keep an eye out for interest-gathering and concept-forming thread(s) in the relatively near future, concerning an IRC game set in the Jade Stage.
"Campaign" is often used to mean the same thing as "campaign setting" or "world."
"The Campaign Builders' Guild" is, simply put, a misnomer. We are primarily a guild for building campaign settings (in the broadest sense of the word), not campaigns, though our little forum here really is open to anything, and I would be the last to discourage someone to post a full campaign write-up, if anyone would be insane enough to completely record one in digital form (ever noticed how many pages it takes WotC to record a one-session adventure?).
Túrin
I always in my mind associated campaign with setting/world. It all seems pleasantly interchangeable.
Yeah, I'm of the same mindset as Cymro; though I know they don't mean literally the same thing, I think amongst most/many/a lot of D&Ders, the two words are very interchangable.... plus, the World Builders' Guild is taken :(
http://worldbuildersguild.com/news/
I am. I'm fine tuning it in a way lately. My campaign has already started but my playaers are at the preliminary stages and that is good because I'm modifying their first adventure somewhat.
It's a somewhat militaristic D&D campaign, set in a small republic, and has a theme of nation building which my players will take part in.
This is a link to the general campaign description
http://www.thecbg.org/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?9249 (//hyperlinkurl)
http://www.thecbg.org/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?8971 (//hyperlinkurl)
Quote from: TúrinI would be the last to discourage someone to post a full campaign write-up, if anyone would be insane enough to completely record one in digital form...
Okay, you asked for it: click here! (http://www.thecbg.org/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?10150.last)
I have a really good campaign I ran in "Midnight" a couple years ago that I still have all the info saved... the campaign ran for about 40 sessions, and they're completely in "chat" form at the moment, so it would take a bunch of work to make it readable, but if anyone's truly interested, I could probably be talked into it.
It would be sweet, but I won't try to force you.
While I really like your campaign journal, Epic Meepo, what I meant by a "full campaign write-up" is a completely prepared campaign, i.e. all preparatory notes including all possible paths that might be taken. Like a WotC adventure but a bit larger (taking you from level 1 to 20) and with entire adventures that might be passed by, so quite likely bigger than your average sourcebook. :P
Túrin
Quote from: TúrinEpic Meepo, what I meant by a "full campaign write-up" is a completely prepared campaign, i.e. all preparatory notes including all possible paths that might be taken. Like a WotC adventure but a bit larger (taking you from level 1 to 20) and with entire adventures that might be passed by, so quite likely bigger than your average sourcebook.
Oh, well screw that, then! Even Dungeon magazine takes years to do something like that, and they've got a full-time staff and dozens of contributors.
True; I once had an entire campaign set in the Forgotten Realms, that was based around an invasion (much like the "Incursion" campaign about Githyanki that Dungeon and Dragon magazines used a few years ago) of an ancient race, who were coming back to Faerun to revive their long-dead god. It was somewhat of a crazy amalgamation of Wheel of Time (the Seanchan), the Riftwar Saga, and various other novels I had read... I had many, many, many printed pages, all with full-color and pretty text and everything, and it described every (possible) encounter, along with various optional storylines and such.... maybe I can find some of the discs I used to keep that on...
One of the problems of posting full campaigns here, as I see it, is that certain members of the guild (myself included) do all or most of their gaming in pbp's here. So, any campaign that was posted in it's entirety to the site, would then become unusable for the purpose of gaming. And, since you were talking about a full start-to-finish detailed write up, that is an immense amount of work to do on a campaign setting that you then become unable to run.
That being said, I do have a campaign worked out currently but there have been a few reasons not to post the info about it. The prime reason being that this is the campaign set in my Shadows of the Last Alliance seting that i started running a pbp in back around the start of the summer. It unfortunately didn't manage to get very far off the ground, but i still hold out hope of being able to run it at some point in the future.
As well, when I design an adventure path, while i will work out many of the long-reaching plots and the ideas of what may lead where, I do not write out full detailed encounters for the entire sequence. Particularily important bit, i do, but for the most part, i make myself some stats, basic stripped down encounters, and some rough note to work from. Other than that, i use the overabundance of ideas floating around in my head at all times to work out all the smaller details and many descriptions on the fly.
So, while I would love to post a rough outline of it up here - and I am torn between wanting to share my work and wanting to run it for some of you later - I will most likely not, and wait until I have time to pick the campaign back up.
That said, if anyone posts a full write up, then more power to ya. That's an impressive undertaking and i would look forwards to reading over the massive volume that it would require.
Maybe I'll try to work out some of the other campaign ideas i have had, and then post at least a rough timeline of events and plots for a possible campaign. hmm... maybe in one of my other settings, not the fairly cannonical one...
Quote from: IshmaylTrue; I once had an entire campaign set in the Forgotten Realms, that was based around an invasion (much like the "Incursion" campaign about Githyanki that Dungeon and Dragon magazines used a few years ago) of an ancient race, who were coming back to Faerun to revive their long-dead god. It was somewhat of a crazy amalgamation of Wheel of Time (the Seanchan), the Riftwar Saga, and various other novels I had read... I had many, many, many printed pages, all with full-color and pretty text and everything, and it described every (possible) encounter, along with various optional storylines and such.... maybe I can find some of the discs I used to keep that on...
I guess that could be a semi common plot line, but mine had m,any similar elements to this.
Kinda spooky.... doodoo doodoo doodoo doodoo (spooky music)
Speaking of this subject, I'm putting some new work into Memory Fading (http://www.thecbg.org/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?11692), a campaign idea I had a few months ago. I'm thinking of trying to run it as a PbP if I can get enough interest 'round these parts.
I did post a snippet of campaign setup info in my thread at one point. (In the guise of a bit of prose fiction.) But I'm not exactly sure what I'm going to do with that campaign idea.
Really, I don't think campaign settings and campaigns are that different from each other. I could write up some background, initial events, detailed settings, dramatis personae, a bit of what's really going on behind the scenes. How much of that would be OBE by the end of the second session?
If I had time, I might run a mini-campaign here or on IRC or something. But with two one-year-olds, a full-time job at a start-up, cadets to take care of, two mortgages... Well, I wish there were six more hours in the day - then I'd get seven hours of sleep.