I’m gonna want to do something different for my home campaign. Right?
Maybe I was just looking for an excuse, to make another hexmap.
While going over some old files, I ran across my first Gimp worldmap. My recreation of the map from my Kastmaria campaign:
I don’t really want to reboot Kastmaria, but I want to use this map for some reason.
I’m hoping my buddy Lee, will be able to play in my home campaign and if he keeps coming to the Meet-up group as well, I don’t want to use the same dungeon. The meet-up thing is kind of an open table, almost convention like deal, which meets once a month. So, while a massive, pre-made Megadungeon like Stonehell is kind of ideal for that situation, I’m afraid that the nuances involved with a campaign world, will kind of fall by the wayside. So, I’m thinking that maybe I should remove Stonehell from Alaethia and run the latter that way, at home. Or, run something entirely different. There’s always Greyhawk and the idea of doing a Forgotten Realms grey box game, has been on my mind for the past few days. But I damn well know, that I would rather do something of my own. Alaethia was the first setting I’ve designed in over a decade. Now that I’ve reminded myself how to go about it, I want to design something else. And if I keep farting around like this, I’ll never get the new game started. :)
Due to the recent death of my father in-law, I’m pushing back the start date of my home campaign. It’ll Probably be mid to late August, now.
Then, there’s this weird map I made, several months ago. My second Gimp worldmap. I think I want to go back and redo the mountain layer:
If it makes you feel any better, I'm sort of in the same boat. After realizing that I don't have the time to do the sword & sorcery camapign world I was running justice, the PCs just swapped game worlds to arrive in the depths of Stonehell and thereby start exploring my longtime homebrewed campaign world. I'm looking forward to sliding back into that comfortable setting.
ReplyDeleteHowever, as much fun as I'm having with that campaign, there are certain itches that it's just not scratching. I'm to blame for some of them; the players for others, but there is a certain something missing from those games. I've been very seriously considering starting up a second campaign set in the grey box Forgotten Realms. This was before your post the other day, which explains my somewhat cyrptic comment there.
I'm waffling on whether I should go back through my notes and see if I can rekindle a campaign from the cold ashes of the events of twenty-some years ago, or start afresh in some little corner of the Realms. In either case, I think I'll start small and see where it goes from there.
Let me know if you too go the grey box route; maybe we can swap notes. :-)
Good luck!
Hi Michael! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI think I see some Blood Volcanoes on the upper part of that middle map. ; )
ReplyDelete@Brutorz Bill: > giggle <
ReplyDelete@James: Pretty Hex map up top. :D
Hi Bill - Ha!
ReplyDeleteThanks Timeshadows!
No time like the present to point out that I'm a B'ham native and still subscribe to the ol' D&D Meet Up notices. If I should happen to move back to Bama I'll be sure to let you know, cause I'm certain to be active in the local rpg circles.
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