A pitch for a shared world starting point

[frogspawner]

Originally Posted by Puck

What would really be nice is a place for contributing writers to add campaigns, senario's and particularly mini-adventures that people could add to each world. ... There could also be a place for additional societies, cults, fantastic, legendary items and whatnot. ... Another neat thing would be a rumors thread about what is going on in each setting.

An 'idea pool' like that could be really good. Maybe trying to define an entire world from the start is too ambitious and even off-putting for some people. But this way we just collect any ideas we can, and perhaps meld them together later...

On that note It would be nice to see to see a semi-private forum where writers could suggest stuff to one another or have solid, honest editing help with one anothers work.

Not sure if this would be worth the admin work Mr Trifletraxor would have to put in, but then again I would perhaps like advice with writing-out stuff from my own world that's derivative of commercial settings (i.e. nearly all of it!)

[rust]

I like both ideas. I am always on the lookout for interesting ideas for my
world, and I often have ideas which seem interesting, but will not fit into
my world's framework, so a place to "trade" ideas would be nice. And a
place to discuss new world elements before throwing them at the players
(and having the bad ones being thrown back at me) would also be a great
advantage.