The Campaign Builder's Guild

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, 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.