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I'm a veteran DM since 15 years. during this time i played in dragonlance before switching to homebrewed campaigns. I created a high level apocalyptic world, a wilderness barbarian game, an all dwarven underdark campaign and an orc war against the elves. The dwarven one was by far my favorite. After going through the planes, through all type of terrains and dungeons, i realized my games were way too complicated and often lost my players in multilayered plots.The decision was taken to go back to the classics and simple. With my friend who designed the orc campaign, i submitted an idea. Since i hate elves and wanted to get a chance to appreciate them, i created a world using the orc campaign base and setting. Using Eberron and wrath & rage supplement i came with a cool design that litterally enthralled my players.
The setting is based on a giant island (like australia) much like aeranal from eberron. The bottom third of the island is populated by the waning elf civilization. the island is separated in two by a river of lava coming from the dragonwall mountains inhabited by orcs. There is a beachead of humans vikings in the north westernmost part of the island, they call themselves the nordaghs. Beyond a great desert of red sand in the north part of the island, is an old empire of human on the verge of disapearing, it's the rich imperium tremense. In my campaign there is no halflings nor gnomes and orcs are lawful evil. The players were to create only spellcasting elves for this game. They were following the leader of a minor noble house: the Corbonazis. The campaign went on for 1 year and a half until recently when the leader of the company went to europe. In the meantime, i started a new small side-campaign with the rest of my players. They are part of the Corbonazis's new army, they're recruit and irregular under a vain selfish sergent, Blake Ir'Celovalis. They had to chose PC from a list of 12 irregulars starting at level 3.5. On the list were just race and class, they had to build the rest.