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<blockquote data-quote="CCH_LLC" data-source="post: 3616667" data-attributes="member: 52995"><p>I would say that you ought to make a very general theme for the world and from there get more specific. As was mentioned above, there is no point in going into great detail regarding areas your PC's will never see or hear about, but you ought to have a general idea of what is where, and if it looks like the PCs are headed there then you can flesh it out based on what your whim is. </p><p></p><p>One idea you might consider is that of a shattered world/asteroid belt. A world was shattered by magic, or whatever cataclysm you want, and now consists of thousands and thousands of asteroids in a big loop around the sun. Since this is DnD (I am assuming), a good chunk of stuff survived and the area around the belt still has and atmosphere, and the individual asteroids act as islands and archipelagos forming kingdoms and empires. There can be ships that "sail" between the "islands" and you can have birds and fish flying around as well. Different regions of the belt can represent different elemental planes, and you can even have people turn asteroids with mage towers or whatever you want into flying fortresses which they attack other islands with or just fly around the system. </p><p></p><p>Do whatever you want, just have a good time.</p><p></p><p>Feel free to plagiarize me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CCH_LLC, post: 3616667, member: 52995"] I would say that you ought to make a very general theme for the world and from there get more specific. As was mentioned above, there is no point in going into great detail regarding areas your PC's will never see or hear about, but you ought to have a general idea of what is where, and if it looks like the PCs are headed there then you can flesh it out based on what your whim is. One idea you might consider is that of a shattered world/asteroid belt. A world was shattered by magic, or whatever cataclysm you want, and now consists of thousands and thousands of asteroids in a big loop around the sun. Since this is DnD (I am assuming), a good chunk of stuff survived and the area around the belt still has and atmosphere, and the individual asteroids act as islands and archipelagos forming kingdoms and empires. There can be ships that "sail" between the "islands" and you can have birds and fish flying around as well. Different regions of the belt can represent different elemental planes, and you can even have people turn asteroids with mage towers or whatever you want into flying fortresses which they attack other islands with or just fly around the system. Do whatever you want, just have a good time. Feel free to plagiarize me. [/QUOTE]
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