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Yes, listen to anything Jennel Jaquays has to say. One pitfall to the inside-out method, where you start with a point and expand outward. The Known World grew that way in the 80s, and it seems like every time they decided to expand the world, they compacted the scale so each hex had more miles...

The only thing I've seen that I can recall off the top of my head is Steve Jackson Games' Caravan to Ein Arris, which is essentially a series of encounters and events tied together by the titular caravan. It's free -- here's the latest version, for GURPS 4th Edition.

I am quite fond of the World Builder's Guidebook, although sadly I have lost the pad of maps that came with. I think they're in a box somewhere.... You could also check out Welsh Piper's Mid-size Campaigns and Hex-Based Campaign Design, although they don't cover a whole world (and who has time...

We had a lot of fun with I6 RAVENLOFT last Halloween; not my fault that the group stumbled into Strahd while still hasted from fighting his vampire maid, and that the holy symbol was in the same room. The Halloween before that, we played (some of) Tegel Manor, and that was also a lot of fun...

Hexographer has tiles, icons, styled and custom lines, optional hex numbers, and a variety of styles (e.g., 1st Edition, black and white, calligraphic). Here's the free version, which has limited features.

Sorry -- I guess I should have looked around more. I'll go do that now!

Ehh, I figured "allowed" was the wrong word just after I clicked "add comment." I thought we had to wait for a license or at least a statement of what's IP (I'm guessing that includes every monster in the Manual).

Okay, I feel dumb just asking this question, but we're allowed to publish adventures for 5E?

You know, I used to think of the FF as "the book with all the stupid monsters" but it's grown on me. Or maybe I got less uptight. I'm gonna hit my players with a flailsnail one of these days, I promise.

Yay! Done with the DMG! We won't have to do that again until Unearthed Arcana!

The bloody hand prints all over the walls might help with the perspective.

That guy'll need to know the rules for somatic components so he can compensate after he loses his hand to the Highly Visible Trap even though he's got a stick right there.

There are also yuan-ti in the Serpent Hills, green dragons in the Wyrmwood, and trolls (what else?) in the Trollbark Forest. dndclassics.com sells plenty of older Forgotten Realms tomes fairly cheaply. FR5 The Savage Frontier deals with the Uthgardt, High Forest, and what becomes the Silver...

ECL is the sum of Hit Dice, level adjustment, and class levels. If I'm going to play an ogre mage, I'd need to select a class, probably wizard, and start at 1st level in that class. So a 1st-level ogre mage wizard would be HD 5 + LA 7 + Wiz1, or ECL 13. He could join a 13th-level party just...

She was left kind of up in the air. It sounded like that gnome got devoured.

Here's the Forgotten Realms Wiki's page on the Sword Coast. The short answer is, you've got three metropolises in or near the region, being Waterdeep, Baldur's Gate, and Athkatla in Amn. Most anybody could come from those, or from Neverwinter. The Uthgardt barbarian tribes wander the Savage...

I have worked climatology into my campaigns, but generally only when using the World Builder's Guidebook. Other than that, I try to account for watersheds and low spots and rain shadows, but I don't bust my butt working it all out. That's a lengthy example of play, but I recognize the end of...

Well, yeah. My mom writes poetry and my wife writes fiction. I know how this works. The power to publish my work was inside myself all along!! :P (I kid, I kid.)

I read the first DLC book and I immediately wanted to run DL3. DL4 kind of left me cold. I was expecting more encounters.

I received my rejection letter today, so I guess I can share my encounters. I had an exploration encounter with a small ruined temple to Boccob. There were five pillars, each engraved with a different scene. One of them had a secret door into a tomb below the temple, where if the sarcophagus...