The Campaign Builder's Guild

So I have been using the name "Griznuq" now since the mid 2000s... (02 maybe... ) and occasionally, I google it just to see what comes up. Which I did a few minutes ago, and lo and behold, CBG came up.

...I have ZERO recollection of coming here, but apparently I posted like three things back in 2008 or something. I'm sure I didn't leave for any personal reasons, perhaps I'd signed up during a (not uncommon) alcohol induced haze or something... But in looking around again, looks like I made a good choice! :)

So uh... Hi! Um... again.

What's new? o.0

So... how about that setting you mentioned back in '08? You gonna deliver, or were you just whistling Dixie?

Hahahahahah....zero recollection?    That's pretty cool.   Lets get back to work.

Seriously... none. Not idea what setting we are talking about... lemme read back. Did I give any idea what I was thinking??

Ah yeah!  I remember being called a Guinan!

And the setting... I did (more or less) finish it. I will look around and see about sharing the info.

I finished enough of it to run a small campaign. I have learned a good deal about myself as a player in the last 5 years, and my problem is, and I am under NO delusions here, I'm really a substandard GM. I tell a very boring story. The setting, I think, has merit, but we'd only played a few sessions, as I had a very tough time weaving a good campaign.

Which is likely why I couldn't really remember saying anything about it, I haven't thought much about it in the last few years.

I will share as much as I can here, I'll just have to gather it all. It's all over at griznuq.com if you wanna read about it, it's the campaign called "Emerald Skies".

It's an interesting premise. You've got a new magical dichotomy of Power as Opportunity vs Power as Responsibility, and the old psionic order that doesn't give a damn about their philosophies and just wants them gone.

Yeah... If you think about it, the only folks who were ever able to do something like that were the psionic folk... Until the Emerald Dawn, they were pretty much the only act in town. Gods amongst men.

When generating characters, I pretty much let my players decide what they wanted to play, and together we made it work... if they wanted to play a magical race, I let them decide HOW the race was created, and we all worked together on the benefits and drawbacks.

For example, one wanted to be a Satyr, so I let him write the story of how the Satyr began. etc.

That's cool. Allowing players to make historical contributions to the setting helps invest them in it. I am very much a fan.