Fantasy Campaign Setting: What do you want/not want?

[Hussar]

I largely agree with Gamerprinter. I'd prefer that a campaign setting really, really detail a fairly small (small being a relative term) area and leave everything else relatively open. So, you get an area the size of a good sized American state, or possibly modern day Germany (as an example) which is more than big enough for most campaigns.

I'd rather lots of detail about a small area than a small amount of detail over a large area.

 

[Derren]

- No Big Bad Evil guy who wants/is able to destroy the world. Politics provide enough conflict while leaving open the option of failure without everything going to hell.
- No build in "awesome but silly moves". Keep your buster swords your whirlwind attacks and nonsense acrobatics, thank you very much.
- Appropriate to its time period. While there is certainly some leeway, especially when magic is involved, in a world with medieval technology not every town should have a sewer or a library etc.
- No "Humans with pointy ears = good, rest evil". You can have monsters, yes. But everything capable of reasoning should not be reduced to good and evil, especially along Tolkien lines of alignment.
- Less Tolkien in general. Its simply overused.
- No "adventurers are special" treatment. If adventurers can use it so can everyone else which should affect the world in a appropriate way depending on availability (can be read as the often mentioned magic as technology").

But as I am nearly always in the minority, if you want to earn money do the exact opposite of what I want.

Edit: And consistent naming. The names of locations and persons should be consistent with the culture that named them instead of a random string of letters.

 

[AslanC]

I want to thank everyone who replied here and I think I have managed to get some good ideas of what I would want and not want to do.

Alas, as we can all see, in the end the desires are so diverse there would be no way to please even 1/3rd of folks, so as was said, make the world that pleases me and see who comes to play.

Thank you all again and Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!