The Campaign Builder's Guild

Settings?

I kid, but usually, until the rubber hits the road and i start running a game, I'm thinking more about individual setting elements that I can use any old place.

With the exception of my scifi setting, which I want to get straight before I start writing the most depressing comic on Earth.

Quote from: MAHA (WHO IS LORD OF EXPECTATIONS)My friends have pathetic attention spans, which wouldn't be so bad if I (as the GM) had a little more discipline. Unfortunately I'm no better than them.

My remedy as of recent months has been to merge much of my material into an ambiguous meta-setting. I come up with a bunch of thematically connected vignettes as well as larger but more nebulous settings which all serve as "snapshots in time" for a planet called "Earth" (I call all my settings earth or wheel, because they're either pretty much like Earth or pretty much like a wheel, and why complicate things?). These snapshots can span from hundreds to thousands to hundreds of millions of years apart and my writing is always opaque enough (assuming that's a good thing) that the sequence of events is almost totally subjective.

first off, ...
HAH.  that was funny.

Secondly, I will be forthcoming here and say that Celtricia *does* have bits of my David's Delvings campaign, my Ish Isle (Cargo cult meets low magic ancient) campaign, and my early and late Gesana (Grassplanet) campaigns built onto/into it.  Not so spokelike, but man, instant background.

I've been trying to focus on one setting, but my mind wanders. I keep going back to wanting to work on D&D and brainstorming a sci-fi setting. Been watching a lot of "Alien Astronaut" theory documentaries which have been gold for sci-fi setting ideas.

I've finally gotten settled at my new place, so I'm hoping to find (no, make) the time to write more. My goal is to set aside 2 hours (at first) each work night to write. I have five projects currently, so I hope cycling between them will help get the creativity flowing again.

Mostly I focus on one at at a time. But I do HAVE multiple settings, which I occasionally work on when I take a break from Eschaton.

I used to be the kind of guy with a hundred and one settings but... Most of them lacked depth to be forged into anything other than one-campaign-worlds... Which really doesn't appeal to me any more.

My goal has long been to have a core set of deep settings that I love and cherish. Currently I have 2 - Aeolond and InnerSOL. Both settings are very different stylistically (one is High Fantasy with lots of quirks, while the other is a futuristic mecha setting that takes place 140 years from now).

I have a ton of ideas for those two settings but I haven't found the time to really codify them on the site. Sadly Summer School and my weekly InnerSOL sessions seem to drain most of my free time away. But I know both settings will be there waiting for me when I find some extra time.