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Setherial 09-26-04, 09:58 AM	Hey Guys My name is David op De Beeck, I'm a DM from Belgium and a first time poster on this board. I've been playing with the idea of fleshing out my own city campain setting for quite some time now, I even read a few books on the subject, now that I have a basic idea of what I want I started thinking bigger. I recently bought the Eberron campain setting and I love it, most inspiring thing I've read in a while and even more so my idea for a the city setting with only small modifications to it's history is easely fitted into it. To situate the city setting for you very briefly, it'll be a frontier city under military rule, based in Breland near the border of Droaam build on the ruins of another city that fell during the last war. I basically played (DM'ed) the last days of Keep Dreamor, the ruined city on which the new city is built and it's destruction at the hands of the great Orcen army lead by the Black Orc warlord Marush. After defeating Marush and his horde, with the help of a ancient white dragon and his army of Frost Giants, the players had to rebuild the city and became the new government. Playing the history of this city rather then just inventing it really gave personality to it. This is why instead of inventing the rest of the city setting on my own I was thinking of creating a forum where everyone who's interested can become involved in the creation and dayly life of this new eberron based city setting. I'm now working on this forum and I've created a set of in and out of character discussion forums. If I go trough with it it would start really small and with limited bandwith (probably limited concurrent online users). Anyway my question is if there are people interested in this idea ? For many non professional game designers I think it would be an opportunity to be part of the creation of a campain setting rather then only be able to discuss something that has already been written. A setting that lives, changes and has an interactive flavour. It's more then a forum, it'll be, more or less, a bit of online gameplay. kind regards David
Whakapapa 09-26-04, 10:33 AM	it looks interesting. So if a guy joins your city campaign, is he a regular commoner or adventurer?
Gilgiga of the Hunt 09-26-04, 12:28 PM	So it's alot like our Garic's City here. Where everyone is invloved in one giant evolveing supper campagin. I personaly love the GsC exprence, and transplanting that into Eberon would be majorly cool. I'd so play. You may wan't to contact the GMs in Garic's City (look under WotC Comunity you'll find it) for some pointers in running a city game.
Setherial 09-26-04, 01:46 PM	Whakapapa : The origenal idea was indeed to join the city with a sort of virtual family where you are either a commoner starting a business or a 1st level adventurer. The cooler stuff you post the more XP you are rewarded and you make a name for yourself + DM's can use your character in their adventures. Now making a forum behave as a sort of online game might be very hard to accomplish so I'm slowly moving away from the idea (besides I won't have the time to code to many game mechanics into the forum). Still there will be an In game forum where you can actually pretend to be part of the city and tell your tale from that perspective. If many people do this you automatically generate and roleplay the cities population. Gilgiga of the Hunt : I'll have to check that out. I didn't know but was secretly hoping that something like this already existed. thanks ! cheers David
Whakapapa 09-26-04, 02:28 PM	It sounds cool :) So basicly I create my own character and I just write short stories of what my guy/gal accomplish during the day/week?
Setherial 09-27-04, 02:38 AM	Yes indeed. here is an overview of the forum sub categories : General Discussion - Townhall : general forum for questions and introductions, everything goes - General City Setting : The big picture, government, law enforcement, economics and religeon. - Adventures : a place to post your adventures in and around the city In character Discussion - The Tavern : Here you tell stories and whisper rumors all from your characters perspective as if you were a DM introducing a new adventure hook. A place for adventure seeds, bard tales and treachurous backstabbing. - Shops and Taverns : Here we discuss individual stores, taverns, small Businesses and entertainment, things like a weekly marketplace, who comes and who goes, a yearly festival, a busy traderoad... The Library - History and Timeline : Here can can find out about the cities history, view and discuss the timeline. - Factions : Read about and discuss the various groups struggling for power. Their plans, plots and schemes, their history and their possible future. - Heroes and Villains Character sheets and background information about some of the famous or infamous individuals who play their part in the cities history. New Rules - Prestige Classes, Feats and Skills - The magic and the mundane : items, relics and secrets - Monsters The Good Stuff - Artwork : forum for artists who want to contribute to the city setting - Stories : forum for writers who want to contribute to the city setting cheers David