Designing The Nation of Ashk | Making A Homebrew RPG Campaign Ep. 1 

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As an Egyptian that wants to get into D&D, this really delights me. Thank you. P.S. When you translated "Capital" on Google it translated it into "رأس مال", which means the money you start with during a project, not "Capital" the capital of a country, that means "عاصمة" which was the first word under *Translations of capital*.

D&D aside, this is just plain good world-building advice. Kudos!

This series has been very helpful! I am a first time DM but I have played as a player once before. This really helped me actually delve deep into my world and make it more immersive, so thanks!!

Your ideas about the use of slaves is exactly where I was trying to get to for my own campaign world. I'll definitely be using them for inspiration. Keep up the good work!

"You're going to want to avoid using names people can recognize." *proceeds to name the capital city after the most notable goddess in the Greek Pantheon* nice dude.

This is PERFECT not only are you talking you are actually screen showing how you do it. Cannot thank you enough.

When I think of Egypt: Pyramids, Pharaos When this guy thinks of Egypt: Isolated towns, loose clothing

I know it's an older video but I wanted to say that this series has inspired me to work on my Norse campaign setting finally.

Thank you for making this video, I was actually working on a campaign map while listening to this and it made me think of a few things I should look at before my group starts (first time DM, so still learning).

As a conlanger, your Google Translate method hurt me 🥵 This series is super helpful tho! I love worldbuilding, but never really knew where to start with actually **making** the campaign.

I am have played D&D since late 80's, always as a player, but took a 24yr break. After starting playing again I decided to start writing my book based on my character again. On a suggestion from a fellow player I decided to make a homebrew campaign . This is my first attempt at such a humungous effort. I find your series(only watch 2 epi so far mind you) informative but have so many questions just in watching those. This is all a bit overwhelming at times.

Good stuff my friend. Volume is really good

Insanely good stuff man, cheers to you.

Thanks, this video has been really useful to me in preparing my notes for my various nations within my setting. I was really worried about them feeling too bland and indistinct from one another but using this method I started to really get a feel about what separates each nation from one another. Hope you continue making these videos and hopefully more people manage to find them

You deserve more views. Great work and Thank You!

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Just started this series but youve really helped out with how i should think when im making my own world for a campaign, thanks. Keep up boi!

For naming, I’ve long been partial to a modified version of what you describe in here. Similar to you, I’ll use foreign languages (Google translate) as my names, but in the interest of filing the serial numbers off, I’ll choose a word that is emblematic of the thing I’m naming (so if it’s a city that has horses as a major export, I might go with horse, bridle, hoof, or the like), pick two to four languages, run the translation of that word into each language, and select individual syllables and sounds from some subset of the languages I’ve chosen to make a composite word that still feels somewhat real but isn’t immediately traceable back to “hey, isn’t that just the Punjabi word for horse?” As long as I’m consistent with what languages a culture draws its names from, I still tend to wind up with a fairly cohesive feel. So a horse city from culture A pulls from Norwegian, Irish, and Japanese, winding up with hest, capall, and uma as my components, so maybe I go with Palluma or Umestall. Whereas culture B is Punjabi, Spanish, and Greek -> Ghōrā, caballo, and álogo, so maybe it becomes Lollō or Ghallo (looking at those, I might rethink what languages I was pulling from for culture B at this point). As a bonus, if I wanted to do something like Scandinavia, where you have multiple cultures, each with their own languages, but all of which share some similarities (Swedish and Norwegian are basically dialects of each other; Danish is fairly close to those two; Icelandic and Finnish sound like those except weird), I could keep some subset of the languages constant and change others, so from country A maybe I keep the Norwegian and Irish but replace the Japanese with Latin (equus) resulting in a city named Palleq or Stumeq.

thank you so so so so so so much

Great video, keep it up.

Very helpful, indeed. This is why i am a subscriber.

This is so helpful! I'm also currently working on a world inspired by the Bronze age Mediterranean/Late Neolithic.

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Great video

This made me think of making a Stargate based d&d game. You could start by overthrowing your god like masters amd them discover they came through a stargate which could turn the campaign into a high level dimension spanning game.

I really liked the video. Thanks 4 giving me inspiration to make campaigns. I keep on making one shots accidentally, can you tell me how to make them longer?

I’m making a more industrial revolution style campaign where kings and queens are slowly losing power as democracy grows and takes monarchy’s place. And magic based technology is beginning to bloom and things like healing potions are commonplace and easy to find.

This is actually perfect because my campaign is also inspired by ancient Egypt (this is my first time being a dm) I actually had a cool boss idea basically there is this large space of deserted desert with ancient catacombs buried in the sand and there a also these giant golems that seem to have a skeletal structure under their outer layer of metal hinting that they may have been alive at some point they are actually not intended to be killed and if you do kill them it will be at very high level in the early game you are supposed to sneak under them in the catacombs but we’ll see what my players do they may come up with something else

Just found this video, but I just wanted to say if you wanted an authentic ancient Egyptian feel, Coptic words & the names of ancient cities (most of which have stopped being used since the post-Islamic "Arabization" of Egypt) would have been a better base. Coptic is the closest modern relative of ancient Egyptian. It's related to Arabic, but it isn't still a very distinct language. Still, Ashk sounds like an interesting campaign setting & this guide is pretty good in my opinion.

The idea that I had will be the whole of Warhammer fantasy world with adaptations to races and places (for example, cathay is not a human country, but a country run by half-dragons). I intent to hide 5 especial itens in 5 corners of that world: Lustria, Nehek, Cathay, Empire and Naggarond/Ulthuan. And make mini thematic campaigns depending where they choose to go, if they go to Lustria it will be an pre-Columbian campaign with dinossaurs, nehek will be an Egyptian/Arab thematic campaign, empire will be medieval/steampunk, Cathay will be Chinese/japanese campaign and Naggarond/Ulthuan will be a classic fantasy campaign. Each region will have their own boss that had the item that they need (the bosses are not related). Once they get the 5 items they can venture into the caos waste/norsca for the finale. They would start in Miragliano (which will be heavily inspired in Venice) and deal with a minor Skaven Threat to get acclimatized

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Is you talking about dungeon & dragon online or any other version of this game?

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What is the software you used in this video? If it was mentioned, I missed it.

what program is that you write you stuff in ?

what program are you using for writing

If there was 1 billion DM you should have a bilion views at least

It always makes me uneasy when DMs or writers in general are so preoccupied with slavery. Even without the suspect interest in it, it's just boring. Slavery, in D&D...groundbreaking.