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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SoldierBlue" data-source="post: 5196846" data-attributes="member: 57440">I never read any of Mr. Salvatore's novels (a friend tried to get me into one when I was 14, and I couldn't make it through it - even at 14), but I do know that through his novels he put the Underdark into a bit of a straightjacket.   The cool thing about Carrion Hill is that the mention of the Darklands opened up the possibility of endless adventure, rather than simply providing roadsigns to an already well-mapped and well-understood (and frankly very dull) Underdark.  Paizo would be well advised to always leave as much wiggle room within their products as possible, and not detail everything out.   Otherwise the result is those strange chaps who spend way too much time hanging around my local game store discussing their very complete knowledge of each and every corner of the Underdark.  We need to retain a bit of, "There be dragons..." at the edge of the maps.  All is not known - hence the reason for adventurers.  If everything is known (I'm looking at you, Forgotten Realms), there is almost no reason for adventurers or adventuring... Curious if Paizo would attempt a world-shaking event via their APs...a Greyhawk Wars-type of thing...hopefully it would be something you could take if you wanted, and drop if you didn't, for all the reasons already discussed...</blockquote>