The 13 Kingdoms

The Thirteen Kingdoms is a collaborative campaign setting created over a period of many months, in an effort to bring together into a single, unified setting the creative ideas and designs of various Dungeon Masters who are active in the gaming world. The goal was to create a new game setting, drawing on the long experience of these gamers, for others to enjoy.

One unique aspect of the setting created is that the founding DMs formed it by creating gods (following the examples and guidelines presented in the Deities & Demigods supplement published by Wizards of the Coast.) Then, through the role-played interactions of the gods with one another, they created a highly coherent history both vast and rich in culture and events. It is a challenging, somewhat dark world with great logical consistency. Though the setting is collaborative, individual gamers and parties can play with extreme freedom from "bookkeeping", while still affecting the larger world that they and other groups play in. In that regard, it is much like the real world.