Ways to Sort Campaign Settings?

[Ishmayl-Retired]

I agree Meeps, maybe I can sticky one and as everyone adds their campaign, I can place links to their actual thread and/or site.


Oh another note, I think when we're reviewing these campaigns that we should be as utterly objective as possible.  Different people review in different ways, but none of you guys want to hear me say over and over again, "Well, I'm tired of elves, so since you're using them, I can only rate you as a 4-out-of-5" or something similar.  Rates, rankings, and reviews should be based on the campaign's originality, flow, coherence, structure, and implementation of optional and/or advanced rules.  Just my couple pennies' worth there.

[Soup Nazi]

I hadn't really thought of the template sticky as a place for everyone to post their core ethos with a link to their thread, but that actually seems like a good idea too.

I had originally thought of the sticky like a posting guideline. I was hoping everyone who posts a setting could open with their core ethos, and you could get a good feel for the setting within the first few paragraphs.

I actually like the former idea better. I do not think however that it would become a huge ten page thread; we're still a small community. Ishy could copy the core ethos (of those who express a desire to be included) and post a link to the main thread right after it. Does that sound like too much work? I'm not sure.

-Nasty-

[Túrin]

I don't see much value to being objective. Trying to be objective when reviewing something that is essentially art (if, for convenience, I can define art here as being an expression of one's creativity) and by definition subjective seems pointless, and would IMO only make the review cold and emotionless. I don't think anyone is going to rate a setting (as in your example of assigning a number between one and five to a setting). If they do not give reasons for the rating, it will be useless to the creator, and if they do, I for one as the writer would only care for the reasons and not for the final value (so if the reviewer wants the presence of elves to negatively influence his rating of my setting, he can do that as long as he states this clearly). Am I making sense here?
Túrin

[Soup Nazi]

Sounds pretty clear to me Turin. I feel largely the same way.

-Nasty-

[Epic Meepo]

On the other hand, Ishy has a point when he says it wouldn't be terribly constructive to post a review that says "I don't like elves, so I don't like your setting that has elves in it."

For example, steampunk isn't my thing.  On the other hand, I shouldn't just look at the Sulos setting - which has many steampunk elements - and say little more than: "I don't like steampunk, so rewrite everything."  Instead, I should try to suggest ways to make Sulos a better steampunk setting.  (I had actually argued for wider-spread instrialization in Sulos; not because I like wide-spread industrialization, but because it made sense for Sulos.)

That's what I think Ishy was getting at when he encouraged people to be objective: don't slam the Italian restaurant just because you'd rather be eating burgers.  Just give them suggestions about how to make better pasta.

[Ishmayl-Retired]

Yeah, Meeps got it right.  

[Túrin]

I'd hardly call that objective, but I see your point. I think we basically feel the same way, but word it differently.