The Campaign Builder's Guild

Hey all, I just got around to posting my campaign setting up to the web - the world of Acheron.

http://acheron.bravehost.com/index.html

It's more of a low-fantasy setting. Comments/reviews are welcome please!! (I know, the map is pretty cheesy looking, but I was never much of an artist).

I should first of all admit that I haven't read all of this, but I've read enough to be interested. The first thing that comes to mind is solidity. It is a classic D&D type campaign and you can immediately get the sense of that, just enough fantasy to be intriguing but not so swamped in it that every other person seems to have magic. I like in particular that you have so many Greyhawk references, mostly for the entirely selfish reason that I have as well. I quite like how you have focused on goblinoids as one of the main enemy type races.

I will look over it some more in the near future but I thought you might like to know that someone is taking the trouble to read through it. There's a lot there and it is almost like reading a sourcebook. I'm impressed with the lengths you have gone to and I'll give you an overall impression in a few days.

Hello f_hayek,
First of all, welcome to the Guild!  I'm always glad to see new people coming by and jumping right in and getting involved.

I've taken a gander at your site, and as Tybalt said, there is a lot of information there.  Whenever anyone comes by and throws out a setting this largely-detailed, it always helps to maybe narrow down options and choices for reviews.  Is there anything in particular that you would like people to look at and review, or would you rather us just read the entire thing, beginning-to-end, and then say something?

First, thanks a lot for checking out what I've put together!! You are most certainly welcome to read through everything and make any comments you'd like. But to narrow things down more, I guess these are the first questions that come to mind:

1. As Tybalt said "just enough fantasy to be intriguing but not so swamped in it that every other person seems to have magic" - I built the world off of some very basic, classic d&d concepts and focused more on interweaving those classic concepts, and less on inventing new, wild races/classes/forms of magic/etc... So let me know if the 'interweaving' makes sense. I put a lot of effort into referencing other parts of the world within every description of one individual part of the world, so you get the feeling of a real living, interconnected world. Does that come across well? Any places where that's strongly evident? Any places where it's a little weak?

2. Along with the interweaving, does the organization of it all make sense and flow well. Are the pervasive links within every description too few, too many, or just right? Are the links at the bottom of each section ("Top" and "Table of Contents") all it needs, or should there maybe be a link back to the main entry that the subheading is under on the page?

3. I also tried to write it not as necessarily an exhaustive list of everything about every part of the world. There are supposed to be some holes that can be filled in by the DM for whatever adventures he comes up with (just how many warring provinces and city-states are there along the Herkasian shores anyways?). And some of the things that are mentioned are not necessarily the most important parts of the nation or the world (like the small city of Talyn in Kasalat) - they are there to provide some interesting flavor that can spawn some adventure hooks. Do you find some entries that do inspire some adventure hooks?

4. Do you like the 'Character Paths' section or is it unnecessary?

5. Good & Bad - anything in particular you really liked reading about, anything that seemed written poorly or was unnecessary?

That's what first comes to mind, but feel free to comment on anything you like!! Thanks again for checking it out - you guys all have some very interesting well thought out campaigns on this site, and I'm glad to have you all reviewing what I've put together!