What Am I Doing?

     Whenever I sit down in front of my laptop to work on something D&D related my mind almost always wanders from its purpose and what I end up doing is seldom what I intended to do when I sat down. I get bored with the campaign I'm working on and other ideas pop into my head that I feel compelled to write down and expand upon.

     Over the years these ideas have mostly settled upon three settings that I've puttered in off and on but have never actually run yet. These three settings are: The Magewall Campaign, The Wending Road/River Ouroboros Campaign, and The Chains in Darkness Campaign. The first two named are wholly homebrew settings while The Chains in Darkness Campaign is set in The World of Greyhawk setting. Since I'll mostly be talking about these three settings I'll summarize them here.

     The Magewall Campaign's closest analog is The Forgotten Realms. Not the Forgotten Realms as they have been transformed over the years by TSR and WotC - I mean the Forgotten Realms as they appeared in the pages of Dragon Magazine. Those articles fired my imagination and I wanted to make something just like them. The Magewall Campaign mostly centers on the titular city of Magewall and also on the nearby vale of Dark Hollow (which is very much like Shadowdale).

     The Wending Road/River Ouroboros Campaign is my take on a Planescape-style setting, insofar that it is a multi-planar setting. But I wanted the planes to be more like the planes in Michael Moorcock's Elric books and less like Gary Gygax's Great Wheel setting. And the campaign focuses on the two major planar highways that meander through all of the Multiverse - The Wending Road and The River Ouroboros.

     The Chains in Darkness Campaign is set in the World of Greyhawk. More specifically, it centers on areas detailed in The Shackled City and Savage Tide Adventure Paths published in Dragon Magazine. And it tosses in a big heaping helping of elements of Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil.

     If I ever figure out how to properly design this blog site then I'll categorize each entry according to its place in one of these settings.