The Campaign Builder's Guild

Due to Jurgis's thread, on outsourcing his own setting, I've decided to make my own thread, clarifying my wants for other people working on my settings.

[spoiler=Disclaimer]
This is purely volunteer work. I don't expect any of my settings to be published, but in the extremely rare chance that any of them do get published, no payment will be made to other authors.  I don't even think payment would be made to me, to be honest. Also, if alot of authors end up working on a setting that eventually gets published, there is a possible chance the credit will go to something along the lines of "Members of the CBG community". Specific usernames may appear if only a handful of people work on said setting.

Again, I sincerely doubt any of my settings will get published. This disclaimer may never need to go into effect.[/spoiler]

Quote from: http://www.thecbg.org/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?26959.0Cyberpunk Setting Project[/url]


For this, ultimately, I would like to see just about everyting outsourced. In fact, I'm hoping somebody else would like to create their own Cyberpunk setting, using what I've done so far. All I ask is that I get to Write explainations for the remaining two ideas (ILE, and the 15% Law), that all my work is used, and that I get credited for my work. Everything else is up to whomever claims it as their own setting.

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For Fiendspawn, I'm willing to outsource fine details on the three countries already listed, as well as some "broad strokes" for other countries. I would like to claim editorial priveledges on the entire setting. I will still create plenty of Fiendspawn material myself, though.[/quote]

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I'll allow minor outsourcing on Xiluh, but this is a setting I would like to have maximum control over. There are some ideas that may need outsourcing for fine details, but be prepared to put up with more then a little bit of "diva artiste editor" if you decide to take this up.[/quote]


If there are any questions or volunteers, please bring it up here. New material, once decided on, should be posted as a new message in the setting's thread. Thanks!

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Nobody is interested?

I'd say most are quite busy with their own settings themselves, and simply don't have much time left to spent working on others' settings. :(

I'm actually doing some work with Jurgen on Urbis and on my own campaign setting, Pelagos, which is pretty much all I can handle at the moment. That said, with a strong enough vision and a fairly complete foundation (both of which Jurgen has created in spades), I'd be willing to consider working with others to develop their settings further. I'm looking for settings that have a strong "feel" to them, as well as enough foundational material to act as a sturdy framework for any detail work I do. Feel free to drop me a PM if you want some help on your setting and I'll review what you've got.

One thing that may be of interest to you and to other serious world builders is the online environment in which these settings and others like them are being developed. It is specifically designed for collaborative world building projects like what you're describing, where multiple world builders come together to bring a single vision to life in great detail. The tools ease and formalize the division of labor amongst collaborators, allowing them to build structured content and to create specific content requests when they need help (e.g. I need a two-story tavern built and populated with half a dozen roughnecks, one of whom should be the proprietor who has links to the local crime syndicate). Other collaborators and even visitors to the setting can volunteer for individual content requests and submit them for review by the owner.

The site isn't completely done, but it currently supports locales, characters (using PCGen, the popular open source character generator), items, vehicles, spells, and races, and there are over 300 of these components within the various settings that are already on the site and in the repository - a searchable free-for-all of components that others can use if they need a character, a map, or whatever. It will also soon support classes, feats, skills, domains, languages, and eventually scenes (specific moments at a given locale), adventures (a series of scenes tied together by a plot and decision tree), and entire campaigns (a series of adventures sharing a storyline). All components have both player and GM-only aspects, so players can be directed to the site to experience the setting as an online player gazetteer, while those that wish to GM within the setting can sign up (for free, of course) to see all the juicy GM-only bits.

Anyway, I'm on the development team for the project and would love any feedback that you and other experienced world-builders might have to offer (just drop a note to contact@eruvian.com). It is due to be launched in Beta in a little under two weeks, at which point you'll definitely be hearing more about it. So, consider this notice a special invitation to preview the tools before they are promoted to the world. ;)