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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jester47" data-source="post: 2903686" data-attributes="member: 2238">Wilderness does not have walls, but it does have boundries.  Setting up those boundries (geographical, geological, and artificial (i.e. hexes or squares)) helps you direct movment and such.  My point is the Wilderlands of High Fantasy campaign setting is the only one that I have seen that works and does what you say.When I learned how WL worked I was running a FR campaign at the time.  Prior to that, I would really gloss over the wilderness stuff, and only have them encounter planned encounters.  Then I implemented 5mi hexes around Everlund and stocked them with lairs, dungeons, interesting landforms and ruins.  I was amazed at how much cooler my FR Game got.  The only thing I would disagree with is the idea of higher CR areas being further and further away.  They just need to be clearly demarked.  Like having the "dark forest of certain doom" being an obvious place where the CRs are a little higher.</blockquote>