Quote from: RPGPundit;599310I guess if you count pseudo-historical copies, My Albion games and my Arrows of Indra game are both in settings of my own making.

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that certainly counts.

Well, there we go. Its kind of a strange situation for me where at the moment three out of the four campaigns I'm running are set in settings of my own creation; stranger still that two of them are in the SAME setting!

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Quote from: RPGPundit;599405Well, there we go. Its kind of a strange situation for me where at the moment three out of the four campaigns I'm running are set in settings of my own creation; stranger still that two of them are in the SAME setting!

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We all do it differently. 4 campaigns running, 3 in my main setting, 1 in my bronze age one, but all my own settings.  I actually don't like using canned stuff, but that is me.

Its more common for me to take a commercial setting and make it my own.

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Quote from: RPGPundit;599629Its more common for me to take a commercial setting and make it my own.

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I do that quite a bit, like my recent adaptation of Savage Worlds for Karl Schroeder's Virga universe.

That was what I did with my FR campaign, where it was very explicit that it was not the same setting as the published one and players shouldn't assume they knew something just because it was in the book; it was like that with my recent RIFTS campaign, and if they count it was like that too with both Legion and Golden Age.

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Quote from: RPGPundit;600643That was what I did with my FR campaign, where it was very explicit that it was not the same setting as the published one and players shouldn't assume they knew something just because it was in the book; it was like that with my recent RIFTS campaign, and if they count it was like that too with both Legion and Golden Age.

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Yeah, my Systems Failure campaign is only loosely based on the main book. It has its own additional history, world development, and chronology that is nowhere in the "canon," though I do have Bill Coffin's seal of approval.

It was actually some time since i did run any series of games, and that is why i have been unsure of posting here.
However, when i did, i almost always put it in a setting that i have made up together with some contributors.

It is one of those "alternate modern" ... or perhaps more like "alternate 80's" in terms of public use of technology.
It is a cross-genre world, where the players can't be entirely sure what will happen next, ....

As an example:
The latest of the longer stories i ran, was originally based on a few characters in a street gang, but during the course of the story, they had to rescue a girl in their gang from a kidnapper ... who performed experiments on her.
They freed her with some help from a kind of werewolf, and a mage that was her boyfriend ...
Then some of them went to a concert in a park right outside the city, and ... encountered what proved to be some kind of beastman-like faun ...
And on their way back, they saw yellow posters saying things like:
"You know you want to"
"Soon in a theatre near you"
"Hail to the King"
.... And those posters were highly mesmerizing ...
After that, they got involved in a "friendly skirmish" with another gang, followed by a message that the girl that had been experimented on had to be protected, because some was hunting "people like her".
Then, they got hunted by demons, and saw one of the demons getting sucked into one of the yellow posters mentoned earlier ... and the image of the demon showed up on the image on the poster ...
.... And at one occasion they got help to flee from the demons from someone with some superpowers, that had a pokemon-looking creature tagging along.

The gist?
You'll never know what happens next, will it be demons, corporate running, unspeakable horrors, digimon monsters, robots, a gangfight, elven slavers, cultists, thousands of furballs, a talking ostrich, magic, four superpowered men fighing over the right to the name "Powerman", or subduing a cannibal with the multiple personalities of the people it has devoured.

Also, I think pretty well every Amber game I've seen becomes this one way or another.

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