Campaign Settings Category

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Currently campaigns have a name, URL-friendly name, tagline, game system, status, description, looking for players, and publish option. I'd like to see a new option between game system and status: setting. There are quite a few settings published by game companies, many more homebrewed, and even a more than a few which are a blend. If the setting field could also be searchable, that'd be cool.

I think this would be preferable to combining settings into the game system as suggested here: http://forums.obsidianportal.com/forums/5/topics/90

darkliquid

I agree, it makes far more sense to have 2 fields for this info rather than one. Plus it makes sense for settings to be unrelated to systems - I've played many a game where we were using the WEG Starwars D6 system in homebrew settings as well as standard D&D-style fantasy settings.

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bq. I agree, it makes far more sense to have 2 fields for this info rather than one. Plus it makes sense for settings to be unrelated to systems – I’ve played many a game where we were using the WEG Starwars D6 system in homebrew settings as well as standard D&D-style fantasy settings.

Another example is how "Feng Shui":http://index.rpg.net/display-entry.phtml?mainid=143&editionid=809 is its own game system, but they created "a d20 adventure":http://index.rpg.net/display-entry.phtml?mainid=8915 using their setting.

RobJustice

I also agree with this idea. D20 is notorious for multiple settings but we're starting to see more of that with other systems. Savage Worlds for example, doesn't have a default setting but various "Savage Settings" to run games in. All Flesh Must Be Eaten has multiple "Deadworlds" to play in. Tru20, Mutants and Masterminds, Palladium, World of Darkness (to a certain degree), etc all have various worlds to play in. Then if you want to get a bit more esoteric, games like Shadowrun have a very different feel if your running in Seattle as opposed to Los Santos or Rifts feels different if your in Atlantis or Chi-Town.

If you allowed it to be a simple text box as well it'd be less stress then adding new settings into the system combo box.

darkliquid

bq. If you allowed it to be a simple text box as well it’d be less stress then adding new settings into the system combo box.

If you also made the text box have a simple ajax-style auto-complete, then it would help cut down on duplicates too (i.e. where someone had 'Eberron' and some else has 'eberron'), as well as speeding things up when entering settings.