I would have never guessed so many people were running their own game world.
It's consistent with WotC's surveys, and it's probably more prevalent in those people who've been playing longer, who I suspect are overrepresented on the forums.
I have a hard time imagining anything that's better than the official campaign settings and every group I have played in runs official campaign settings so I just assumed that's what everyone was doing.
That's... very much a matter of taste. They can easily be much more completely developed, than a homebrew, but sometimes all the development doesn't fit what you/your group want out of the game, and it's easier to toss it all and start afresh.
And some people just enjoy worldbuilding.
plus i guess if your a d&d veteran theres only so man hames that can start off "our heroes first met 20 years ago in neverwinter but today we join them in the underdark"
I would have never guessed so many people were running their own game world.
It's consistent with WotC's surveys, and it's probably more prevalent in those people who've been playing longer, who I suspect are overrepresented on the forums.
I have a hard time imagining anything that's better than the official campaign settings and every group I have played in runs official campaign settings so I just assumed that's what everyone was doing.
That's... very much a matter of taste. They can easily be much more completely developed, than a homebrew, but sometimes all the development doesn't fit what you/your group want out of the game, and it's easier to toss it all and start afresh.
And some people just enjoy worldbuilding.
plus i guess if your a d&d veteran theres only so man hames that can start off "our heroes first met 20 years ago in neverwinter but today we join them in the underdark"
Oh yeah, it's not a criticism of homebrew worlds or saying that the official campaign settings are better. I'm saying I personally can't come up with anything better. (Believe me, I've tried!)
But yeah, I've been playing since 1999. I don't know if that makes me a veteran player or not, but I generally find it's easier to come up with adventure ideas and plug them into an existing region than it is to come up with all that lore on my own.
I wish I had that spark to come up with interesting campaign settings. I can come up with an interesting city or village or something, but my campaign settings generally feel a little flat. I just can't find a good theme to tie them all together. One of these days maybe.
I would have never guessed so many people were running their own game world.
It's consistent with WotC's surveys, and it's probably more prevalent in those people who've been playing longer, who I suspect are overrepresented on the forums.
I have a hard time imagining anything that's better than the official campaign settings and every group I have played in runs official campaign settings so I just assumed that's what everyone was doing.
That's... very much a matter of taste. They can easily be much more completely developed, than a homebrew, but sometimes all the development doesn't fit what you/your group want out of the game, and it's easier to toss it all and start afresh.
And some people just enjoy worldbuilding.
plus i guess if your a d&d veteran theres only so man hames that can start off "our heroes first met 20 years ago in neverwinter but today we join them in the underdark"
Oh yeah, it's not a criticism of homebrew worlds or saying that the official campaign settings are better. I'm saying I personally can't come up with anything better. (Believe me, I've tried!)
But yeah, I've been playing since 1999. I don't know if that makes me a veteran player or not, but I generally find it's easier to come up with adventure ideas and plug them into an existing region than it is to come up with all that lore on my own.
I wish I had that spark to come up with interesting campaign settings. I can come up with an interesting city or village or something, but my campaign settings generally feel a little flat. I just can't find a good theme to tie them all together. One of these days maybe.
i could easily homebrew another thing like dr who or lotr but they have there own rpgs with taylor rules
I can homebrew in the sense of use existing stuff and rework or reinterprate it but not makke a new setting(ihad an idea once bbefore i'd even started dnd it was called war of the ages it was a fantasy world that spanned 3 ages where the races would adapt but trying to peice the lore toger has been on going for too many years) edit:google also confirms war of [the] ages is a book series so not an orginal title lol
An interesting thing is floating around here about the results.
While they are consistent with the larger schema of results from multiple different sources, this is notably skewed by about 4% towards original. Not enough to be a full mean variance, but I do find it fascinating given I asked a similar poll earlier this year.
Both polls are merely suggestive (there are 15 million users of the site, after all -- it would take at least 237 distinct responses to have value for predictive approaches or forecasting, not counting needed controls that aren't possible in this format, so around 2500 responses uncontrolled), but that is outside normative bounds.
(which is a really wordy way of saying there are way more original worlds than typical if you reference previous polls from wotc and others).
What alo startles me is the way the use or lack of use of the great wheel cosmology is involved. That's a pretty mixed bag. I had honestly expected it to be higher for using the default cosmology.
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plus i guess if your a d&d veteran theres only so man hames that can start off "our heroes first met 20 years ago in neverwinter but today we join them in the underdark"
in a hole in the ground you notice a halfling
Oh yeah, it's not a criticism of homebrew worlds or saying that the official campaign settings are better. I'm saying I personally can't come up with anything better. (Believe me, I've tried!)
But yeah, I've been playing since 1999. I don't know if that makes me a veteran player or not, but I generally find it's easier to come up with adventure ideas and plug them into an existing region than it is to come up with all that lore on my own.
I wish I had that spark to come up with interesting campaign settings. I can come up with an interesting city or village or something, but my campaign settings generally feel a little flat. I just can't find a good theme to tie them all together. One of these days maybe.
i could easily homebrew another thing like dr who or lotr but they have there own rpgs with taylor rules
I can homebrew in the sense of use existing stuff and rework or reinterprate it but not makke a new setting(ihad an idea once bbefore i'd even started dnd it was called war of the ages it was a fantasy world that spanned 3 ages where the races would adapt but trying to peice the lore toger has been on going for too many years) edit:google also confirms war of [the] ages is a book series so not an orginal title lol
in a hole in the ground you notice a halfling
An interesting thing is floating around here about the results.
While they are consistent with the larger schema of results from multiple different sources, this is notably skewed by about 4% towards original. Not enough to be a full mean variance, but I do find it fascinating given I asked a similar poll earlier this year.
Both polls are merely suggestive (there are 15 million users of the site, after all -- it would take at least 237 distinct responses to have value for predictive approaches or forecasting, not counting needed controls that aren't possible in this format, so around 2500 responses uncontrolled), but that is outside normative bounds.
(which is a really wordy way of saying there are way more original worlds than typical if you reference previous polls from wotc and others).
What alo startles me is the way the use or lack of use of the great wheel cosmology is involved. That's a pretty mixed bag. I had honestly expected it to be higher for using the default cosmology.
Only a DM since 1980 (3000+ Sessions) / PhD, MS, MA / Mixed, Bi, Trans, Woman / No longer welcome in the US, apparently
Wyrlde: Adventures in the Seven Cities
.-=] Lore Book | Patreon | Wyrlde YT [=-.
An original Setting for 5e, a whole solar system of adventure. Ongoing updates, exclusies, more.
Not Talking About It / Dubbed The Oracle in the Cult of Mythology Nerds
Could we make a poll about those who use official settings?
Of the official settings which have you played in?
(FR,
Ebrron
DragonLance,
Theros
Ravnica
Ravensworth
Dark Sun
Mystera
Greyhawk
Wildmount/Tal'Dorei