No post in a month. most of the contributors gone.

I believe this project is died. Anyone want to give a second opinion.

what was this really about in the first place. i only just started posting here.

Many months ago, the maxminis community had decided to create their own campaign setting world.  When the community split, and several left for hordelings, this project died quickly.

is there a chance of it starting back up? why the split?

About starting it back up?  I don't know.  I'm not interested, personally.  It isn't the same without several folks who aren't here anymore.

Why the split?  It's quite complicated, but it was because the host of this website offended most of the primary moderators and the main site programmer in such a way that they pretty much left for good.  Many old timers left for good.  Several others kind of keep track of both sites.  Some have lost interest in either website and don't bother much with an online messageboard.

Maxminis used to be a more vibrant place.  It used to look better too, before the interface was changed when the site was "upgraded".

wow! that's messed up. sorry to hear that. i would'vr liked to get on soemthing like that.

Why not go for it anyways? There was a thread about people who were still interested so there are people out there. If you want to work on it, do it. I bet if someone got the ball rolling others might start contributing again. Sometimes threads and projects can be like flowers in the desert: they ook dead but all they need is a little input and then they are blooming again.

If it was to start up again. I think you have to prune the area'a that the original owners are gone. It would be unfair to give them to some one else to do and if they are not going to be finish there is no point.

That said I can get back to work on Zohran and the Seven Star kingdoms.

ok. is there a link to the story in particular? whats the history, politics, etc...

I no longer have the time to devote to this project. You can parcel out my areas to anyone who might be interested.

There was not a story developed yet.  It was more like a really cool map was made, and several people starting saying, "I'll make a region in such and such area with such and such types of creatures."  It was more of a hodge podge of ideas that didn't really work together.  There was a variety of flavors that didn't really mix together.  Some ideas seemed cartoony or Eberronish, while others seemed more serious.  Part of the problem was that there wasn't a cohesive idea worked out.

I must agree. Everyone liked there own areas of course, but there a lot of area's that didn't have wide spread appeal. It seamed that some people didn't look at what other people had done before writing thier own areas.

My opinion on this "New World" is that it was too big of a project to start with.  For example there were no limitations to what the Maxmini members could do and nothing never really mathched up.

I think if this is to ever work again we need to approach this larg scale project at a different angle.  We need to build this "world" starting with very small areas, such as towns and cities.  From that point we could expand off of those smaller locations to create a larger kingdom, eventually developing into a world.  By making the world this way we can get more detailed and use the small areas we develop along the way in adventures if we need to.

The first step would be is to remove everyone's "claims" to sections of the map and pick a good center point where we can start this bottom up process.  We will then start creating a city by contributing buildings or areas as in this thread:

Help Me Build A City (Winner!!)

It would also help if some one had their own website where we can post the new additions as we go.
If anyone would be willing to take this new approach to the world just post and we'll see if we can't get things back on the right track again.

If I was going to get back into this it would only be if I could build on what I already have done.

I understand your point, but I will not throw away the work I put into Zohran and start over.

I never meant for you to throw away your work.  If we start the world over we will need many of the ideas already mentioned in everyone's work as we expand on through the world.

Yeah, this was a problem for me as well. There was no cohesive world idea. Just several people creating their own stuff in a vacuum. Some attempts were made to connect areas, but not enough, imo.

I think Dalamar posted some good tips how to do this project in a more cohesive way.

If you guys do get it up and running again, I'd be mighty interested to see what gets created.

I'd be willing to put some work in if this project gets started up again. I think someone should appoint themselves as "editor" and start handing out "assignments". Cohesiveness should be the word of the day.

I'd be willing to help out too.  Although if this project is really going to work we should start with a small area that we all work on together.  This way we can provide many land features, cities, and NPCs and mix them together to create a connection between the world's inhabitants.  This way it will seem more real.

We just have to pick a starting point and this projet will start up again moving faster than ever.

Do you guys mind that we build the world this way?
If your in, let's get this world rollin'.

I know my post was edited. DJ won't let me get my message out. The site in in my sig at the bottom of my posts.

I don't mind you getting the idea out. Just use the RPG boards as this board is for the new world project only.

Can't we all just get along...



or am I going to have to bust out a frenzy rage combo with a side of shocktrooper power attack and decimate your asses?

If the ideas/world is random, why not incorporate that in to it's design, something similar to Ravenloft's fog that swallows people and dumps them somewhere else, except perhaps there are powerful entities (perhaps dieties) that keep the realms in constant flux - therefore getting very different flavours side-by-side. Just a thought.

This idea does seem to be dead, but I had a thought about this project and the upcoming Points of Light stuff with 4e.

Rather than designing a bunch of unusual nations and trying to link them together coherently, you could focus on making interesting self-contained locales that could be popped into any campaign.

Forget about the map, forget about the nation and world scale and make really unique little bits that may or may not connect into a larger picture later.

Not really a new idea since some of the threads here are already about little areas like that, but it's a way to potentially make the points of light concept more palatable. *shrug*