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Message: <blockquote data-quote="steenan" data-source="post: 6059990" data-attributes="member: 23240">Consistency over detailI may - and will - add a lot of my own ideas to the setting. It does not have to be detailed, and sometimes even shouldn't, because too much detail does not leave blanks for me to fill. But the setting has to make sense, as already noted by several posters above. If something doesn't fit, or doesn't work as expected, it just shouldn't be there.This counts for both logical consistency and for stylistic (genre) consistency. In some cases, one can be exchanged for the other. Settings that follow a well-defined genre may handwave some things that the genre usually handwaves.Plot hooks over background factsI don't need a lot of data in the setting book. I don't need population numbers, trade routes or five thousand years of history. Instead, the book must tell me what interesting adventures can be placed in given setting. It should only describe people, places and events that may be used to build a story around them.Conflict and change over status-quoI don't want a setting that is static, with powerful NPCs that keep it this way. I want a setting that, if I move it ten years forward, will look completely different. I want a setting full of dynamic conflicts, in both local and global scale. One that changes during the time when play begins - and characters can exploit the changes or oppose them.</blockquote>