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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6229728" data-attributes="member: 7006">I agree with this wholeheartedly.  And as I mentioned in the "how should they do the campaign settings" thread... my personal preference and belief for a much more usable campaign product would be to do another Nentir Vale / Neverwinter type campaign book.  Select one specific area of the Realms and really delve into the details of the space-- Icewind Dale, Cormyr, the Dalelands, or something like that.You can go into more specifics about the certain towns, litter it with many more adventure sites and plot hooks, make it large enough to travel across to give you "road adventures", but small enough that something that happens on one end will actually have an impact on the other end.  Make it such that 95% of all the detail within the book is actually capable of being reached and used in a normal campaign.You can't really do that with a full world.  Invariably, you'll start in one small section, rarely leave it for quite a while, then perhaps the group goes on the road to some other nation... but even then, the campaign will never hit three-fourths of all the locations and stuff in the book-- rendering those sections less optimally useful for most players and campaigns.</blockquote>