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Renin
Learned Scribe
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 Posted - 28 Feb 2020 : 03:23:16
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Well met again.
Just out of curiosity, as we all make the Realms are own, do you as DMs continue build, play, and use all your own past history and stay within the same region, or do all your separate campaigns hit a different region?
Have you run 3 different generations of heroes along the Sword Coast?
Did your old group of heroes carve a place out of history in Cormyr, and now the newest group you are running in the Forest Kingdom hope to make a name for themselves?
Or can you not ever stop running each adventuring group in Waterdeep?
Just curious; with the 29 years behind me roleplaying, we've done most of our work in Cormyr; then we had a 'round the Realms' campaign and just moving and searching across the world.
I ran a 12 year campaign entirely set in Chondath
My friend decided the Border Kingdoms can truly be whatever he wants, so we did whatever we wanted there as we crossed so many would be leaders and lands.
Now I'm running a 'Sea of Fallen Stars' campaign, where we travel anywhere there is a port, running afoul of Red Wizards, Fire Knives, Untheric Zealots, Zhentarim, demons and drow around Myth Drannor, Sembian...;D ...lotta fun.
How do you run things? What are you currently 'doing?'
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Demzer
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 28 Feb 2020 : 12:37:36
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Same history, same timeline/"universe" but several different regions (the Realms are huge!).
I've run a lot of one- or few-sessions campaigns all around the place (Impiltur, the Great Dale, Rashemen, Moonshae, High Forest, Heartlands, Hartsvale, Calimshan, the Dales, Anauroch the Planes) and had three long running campaigns: one based in the Shining Plains but with the high level PCs ranging and messing around everywhere; one entirely centered on Amn which included trips to Tethyr, the Heartlands, the Waeldath and Maztica; one, recently finished and running for 8 years, with the players moving from the Old Empires to the Lake of Steam to Chessenta and back and forth and profoundly shaping the region(s).
All events are connected so I have a long chronology file and reference events that happened in the other campaigns (wars, plagues, important deaths, rumors) if and when needed (the players, always the same bunch, have so far avoided "meeting themselves"). |
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cpthero2
Great Reader
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Posted - 10 Mar 2020 : 21:04:18
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Learned Scribe Renin,
I split up by region so that I can get my players immersed in all of the epic diversity of the Realms. Familiarity can breed contempt after a while, is what I've seen over the years in my campaigns. Not overt contempt, but that loss of fun that they get from exploring. There are so many places to build, that I thought it silly not to jump to another area. Especially since I use a sandbox campaign approach.
I am finishing a real world 3 year campaign in the Shining South, i.e. Durpar/Var the Golden/Estagund. My next campaign is going to the Lost Empires, roughly in the region of Impiltur, the Endless Wastes, Narfell, Thesk, Rasheman, etc.
Best regards,
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Originally posted by Renin
Well met again.
Just out of curiosity, as we all make the Realms are own, do you as DMs continue build, play, and use all your own past history and stay within the same region, or do all your separate campaigns hit a different region?
Have you run 3 different generations of heroes along the Sword Coast?
Did your old group of heroes carve a place out of history in Cormyr, and now the newest group you are running in the Forest Kingdom hope to make a name for themselves?
Or can you not ever stop running each adventuring group in Waterdeep?
Just curious; with the 29 years behind me roleplaying, we've done most of our work in Cormyr; then we had a 'round the Realms' campaign and just moving and searching across the world.
I ran a 12 year campaign entirely set in Chondath
My friend decided the Border Kingdoms can truly be whatever he wants, so we did whatever we wanted there as we crossed so many would be leaders and lands.
Now I'm running a 'Sea of Fallen Stars' campaign, where we travel anywhere there is a port, running afoul of Red Wizards, Fire Knives, Untheric Zealots, Zhentarim, demons and drow around Myth Drannor, Sembian...;D ...lotta fun.
How do you run things? What are you currently 'doing?'
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