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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kennew142" data-source="post: 3969730" data-attributes="member: 18490">I don't know about one assumed world. MOst of the earliest modules gave references to the World of Greyhawk. I can't remember when it was published (I bought my copy sometime in 1980 or so), but I used it back in my earliest days for a campaign world. The known world was a Basic D&D default setting.I do mostly homebrew campaigns. I have a map for the surrounding area and some idea of what is going on around the world, but I almost never design any part of the world in detail unless it becomes important to the adventures or the backstory - or unless someone asks me about an area.I am mentoring one of the GMs in our group in creating a homebrew world, and I have essentially advised him to follow the old school of world design. Start with one town and the local adventuring sites and then expand from there. 4e appears to be extemely well suited to this style of design, with its focus on Points of Light. With the exception of changing the default gods (none of us are too fond of them), his campaign will begin with the assumed setting and make changes/expansions as they are needed.My own campaign has been influenced by this style as well, with lots of civilization near the waterways and coasts, but very dangerous territory surrounding it. As an aside, many players in games over the years have assumed that I have hundred of pages of detail on my campaign world. They are often surprised to find out that most areas have nothing more than a few sentences. My general rule of thumb has always been to design nothing in detail until it was needed. In many cases, the information I have provided the characters is all the information that exists on a particular region.</blockquote>

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