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Ilztfryn Claddghym
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 Posted - 30 Oct 2008 : 19:10:53
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Hey guys,
Just wanted to check to see if anyone here was interested in helping me (among others) create a fantasy world of our own. I know you are all interested in the lore and political systems of FR so I thought some of you might be interested in collaborating to create there own. I am in need for guys who have skills in map making, hero creation, politics, geography etc.
We would work off of a temporary forum and create the world together through e-mail (the forums) and IM.
Pm me or post here please and thanks for your help.
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Edited by - Ilztfryn Claddghym on 30 Oct 2008 19:11:43
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Jamallo Kreen
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 30 Oct 2008 : 23:36:53
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Do you want a randomly-generated world which you will then adapt to a fantasy setting, or one with deliberately selected components? If the former, try using Space Opera; you can use its rules to generate an enormous variety of random planets, and then use your ingenuity to create socities which must follow the constraints of the planet, not vice versa, as is usually the case in fantasy fiction. Toril orbits its sun, for example, in exactly 365 days and six hours (no word from Ed if Vhostym messed that up!), but try to create a fantasy society in which the year is thirty-two Earth years long -- zounds!
For a tamer example, consider a randomly-generated desert world with no spice and no Fremen, but with an OWEC (Organization of Water-Exporting Countries); Michael Moorcock put Elric in a desert country for one story, but he's never tried to write up a desert planet with only a few regions where the water can be accessed from the surface. Think about the effects such a world would have on a fantasy society, especially with OWEC agents assassinating anyone who tries to create magic which would make water more readily available....
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Kentinal
Great Reader
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Posted - 31 Oct 2008 : 00:45:12
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In someways indeed the question, some years ago I found untilities that build the world map. That is not the hard part. The hard part is deciding on what creatures live on the world, how many and how organizised.
All in all for a local campaign it tends to build the world up, start from local area and then expand it to further regions. The World map still can be used, just mostly not filled in.
A world maps first, countries and teritories first, popukations and type later, then cities/towns/communities is a massive build that might not be visited by PCs in their lifetimes. Such masive worlds have been built and still can be built, however such worlds also have empires emerge and then fall.
UO had a world map that some regions appeared to be not well known (last time I looked at that) at all and hard to travel to. A full mapping of the World is a lot of work that might very well have few if any visitors. |
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Ilztfryn Claddghym
Seeker
Canada
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Posted - 31 Oct 2008 : 00:57:04
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| Thanks for the ideas guys. Either of you interested in helping me out on a day to day level? |
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
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Posted - 31 Oct 2008 : 01:17:26
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Unfortunately I am currently designing my own (for use with any setting), and am in the 'employ' of someone else who is doing the same.
Building three worlds - while still maping out Toril - would be a bit much... otherwise I would have loved to help.
Sorry. 
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Originally posted by Ilztfryn Claddghym
Thanks for the ideas guys. Either of you interested in helping me out on a day to day level?
There's nothing says you can't come here (in the general forum) just to bounce ideas off of us.  |
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Ilztfryn Claddghym
Seeker
Canada
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Posted - 31 Oct 2008 : 16:59:46
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| Thanks Marustay I'll keep that in mind! |
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Tyranthraxus
Senior Scribe
Netherlands
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Posted - 02 Nov 2008 : 20:46:34
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I'd love to help, but I'm kinda busy with school at the moment so I can't help at a day to day basis. But I have some ideas for a campaign world.
I have some questions though...
Do you intent it to be published online, or just as a home brewn campaign?
What kind of setting is it going to be (medievil high fantasy like FR, or is it based on greek or celtic mythology, ect)?
And like Kentinal said, it's easier to start locally and build from there on. There are some blank regional maps you can download at WotC that can be used as a start. |
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Jamallo Kreen
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 03 Nov 2008 : 01:34:05
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Hmmm. ... My attempt to post yesterday was thwarted, apparently. I, too, am too busy with my own world-building and Realms-running to work day-to-day on someone else's world without professional compensation. As others have said, however, I am available to have ideas to thrown at me in order to see if they bounce ... or words to that effect....
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