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I am a somewhat anomalous gamer. I did not grow up playing D&D. As a matter of fact, before 3.0 released, I'd played a total of two sessions of AD&D - both times sitting in on someone's long-running game and dying about two-thirds of the way through the evening.
When 3.0 came out, I decided I wanted to try running it. This was at the dawn of the OGL bubble, and my only available resources were the PHB, the DMG, and White Wolf's Creature Collection. I took those three things and some elements of the fiction I'd read over the preceding decade and slammed it all together to create a setting. The result was the Ashen Lands, which may have been my longest-running GMing experience.
After that campaign fell apart due to GM burnout and group dissolution, the scattered notes sat on a succession of hard drives. I didn't do much with them until a couple of years ago, when I was working on a New Year's Eve one-shot for some close friends. I was running Fantasy Craft and needed a setting to use with the FC engine, so I dusted off my notes and updated them to align with my current tastes and the FC races and alignment systems.
A forum thread I was just reading reminded me of that work, and I figured one of my three loyal readers might be briefly amused. The resulting setting "sourcebook" is available here, with an attendant Google Map of the known world here. Enjoy.
When 3.0 came out, I decided I wanted to try running it. This was at the dawn of the OGL bubble, and my only available resources were the PHB, the DMG, and White Wolf's Creature Collection. I took those three things and some elements of the fiction I'd read over the preceding decade and slammed it all together to create a setting. The result was the Ashen Lands, which may have been my longest-running GMing experience.
After that campaign fell apart due to GM burnout and group dissolution, the scattered notes sat on a succession of hard drives. I didn't do much with them until a couple of years ago, when I was working on a New Year's Eve one-shot for some close friends. I was running Fantasy Craft and needed a setting to use with the FC engine, so I dusted off my notes and updated them to align with my current tastes and the FC races and alignment systems.
A forum thread I was just reading reminded me of that work, and I figured one of my three loyal readers might be briefly amused. The resulting setting "sourcebook" is available here, with an attendant Google Map of the known world here. Enjoy.