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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wik" data-source="post: 4416292" data-attributes="member: 40177">Right.  I think at this stage of the game, the main thing that needs to be figured out are the bare bones of a campaign world.  I think a PbP world has slightly different design needs than a typical D&D world, in that time is much more important.  A large world (ie, one that would require a lot of travel to get from place to place) will eat up a lot of time.  What would take maybe one session to accomplish in a face to face game can easily take three to four months in PbP.  And I think burning four months before the adventure really starts would get kind of annoying.That in mind, I think L4W should be smaller in scale - not North America, or anything.  I was saying earlier that an Archipelego model would work, but there are other options.  The main goal, though, is to make travel a part of the game, but not something that's going to eat up such a huge amount of time "at the table".  Also, and this goes against my previous point, the campaign world needs to support a wide variety of terrain types.  We need oceans, deserts, ice worlds, jungles, plains, and and decidous forests.  Doing this will allow GMs freedom in creating their adventures.Finally, L4W also needs a good starting city - and I think this city should perhaps be a bit larger than Orussus (although, as RA already pointed out, not a metropolis... but we should put a Ptolus city somewhere in the campaign world!) While not a necessity, I think it might be cool if we made this starting city a bit more dynamic than Orussus, as well - perhaps something that makes the city unique (as a hub of teleportation  gates, for example... or that it's ruled by ogre kings... or that it has an "upper city" and an underground "lower city").  One last thing I was considering - the last issue of Dungeon had a giant map that was a collection of all the "maps of mystery", and I couldn't help but think how perfect that map would be for a liviing worlds game.  Thoughts?</blockquote>

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