{"id":3488,"date":"2017-07-14T06:56:37","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T13:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theredactedfiles.com\/?p=3488"},"modified":"2017-07-13T15:09:29","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T22:09:29","slug":"scratch-made-pies-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theredactedfiles.com\/?p=3488","title":{"rendered":"Scratch Made Pies: Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIf you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.\u201d – Carl Sagan<\/em><\/p>\n

Hello, welcome to Scratch Made Pies, a blog that covers my trek through fashioning a fictional universe that I use for a bi-weekly Pathfinder game. I will be using this blog to work through my ideas and thoughts as well as the process that I am using to spin my own little slice of a fictional reality.<\/p>\n

But first, a little about me. I have been playing Pen and Paper RPGs since 1990 when I first played the old Marvel Super Heroes published by TSR. After that I played in various games of AD&D when I was able to check the books out of the library (I\u2019m from a small town. Comic book and game shops are nowhere near my home.) I really hit my stride when I moved to a town WITH a game shop and delved deep into the White Wolf and AEG offerings of Vampire, Legend of the Five Rings and 7th Sea. And then 3.0 hit like a lightning bolt and it was EVERYWHERE. This is where I got my first taste of running games and was fortunate enough to have a regular group where all of the other players were seasoned Dungeon Masters. This gave me some very harsh lessons in how to and not to run a session. Fast forward to a good deal of time later and I\u2019ve been a player and DM for The Redacted Files.<\/p>\n

But one thing that I had wanted to do for the last few years was to develop a game world for my Pathfinder\/D&D games that I really could call my own.<\/p>\n

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This is a common thing for a lot of DMs that play, and they are successful to some extent. Making little snippets of worlds, tiny fiefdoms where they spin a tale and then they let the world fizzle when they complete the story they wanted to tell or the group splits up. What I wanted was something a little more permanent. Something that would last.<\/p>\n

So I did. Or rather, have been.<\/p>\n

I had attempted to create campaign settings before, with varying amount of success. I had one setting, that I called \u201cWaveless\u201d that I had worked on for a couple of years in the early \u201800s. It had a map and some basic write ups for some background pantheon lore and race definitions. I had even ran a couple of campaigns in the setting but it was far from complete. To sum it up I went a \u201cHigh Concept\u201d route when writing my last campaign setting, and it failed. It failed hard.<\/p>\n

It took a good long while for me to want to try and create a world again. Really it took a two year long run through Rise of the Runelords and a really good group of people to play with that made me want to serve them a world that they could explore and find new things in. And I am. But with a drastically different approach compared to what I had done previously. Rather than go for high concept and have all of the world mapped out ahead of time with a number of pantheons I did the opposite. I went granular. I started with naming a town, Joonsvyk (YOUns-vick), and describing what the surrounding environment was like. Things like the local council and a short back story for the town.<\/p>\n

What it ended up as was the hamlet of Joonsvyk , led by the local jarl Ulna Bearkiller, wherein dwelled the mead hall of Brennig. And for the first adventure, I had planned a twist on the old trope, Rats in the Cellar. I will expand on this and how it affected the world that my friends and I are creating next time.<\/p>\n

Thank you for reading.<\/p>\n

Patrick @lilstone621<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIf you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.\u201d – Carl Sagan Hello, welcome to Scratch Made Pies, a blog that covers my trek through fashioning a fictional universe that I use for a bi-weekly Pathfinder game. I will be using this blog to work through my ideas… Continue Reading Scratch Made Pies: Introduction<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[41],"tags":[53,176],"class_list":["post-3488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-posts","tag-patrick","tag-scratch-made-pies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5r9Oo-Ug","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3526,"url":"https:\/\/www.theredactedfiles.com\/?p=3526","url_meta":{"origin":3488,"position":0},"title":"Scratch Made Pies: Rats in the Cellar a.k.a. 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