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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 6906323" data-attributes="member: 6704184">In my experience, the &quot;start with a village&quot; idea is strongly dependent on the world builder, in terms of how good advice it is. For me, I can't do it that way. Even at my least experienced, trying to do it that way was impossible for me. I was 100% stuck* until I gave up on that and started building the world that village inhabited. Then, the world came alive, and within a few weeks I had a setting two detailed continents, with a dozen fleshed out &quot;cultures &quot;, twice as many nations, three defined religions and basic ideas of other faiths, heresies, etc, a couple example knightly orders, and a couple detailed cities, and at least 1 important NPCs for each faction. I figure from your OP that the setting is already at least partly built, since you refer to it as the literary setting you've developed? &nbsp;[MENTION=6801219]Lanliss[/MENTION] is right about the q&amp;a thing. It helps. Also, player input. Give the players an idea of what the world is, and ask them what sort of characters sound interesting in such a setting, and figure out if you need to add a nation, faction, conflict, or other element to the setting to allow for such a character. Those two things go a long way to bridging the gap between literary and gaming setting.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 6906323, member: 6704184"] In my experience, the "start with a village" idea is strongly dependent on the world builder, in terms of how good advice it is. For me, I can't do it that way. Even at my least experienced, trying to do it that way was impossible for me. I was 100% stuck* until I gave up on that and started building the world that village inhabited. Then, the world came alive, and within a few weeks I had a setting two detailed continents, with a dozen fleshed out "cultures ", twice as many nations, three defined religions and basic ideas of other faiths, heresies, etc, a couple example knightly orders, and a couple detailed cities, and at least 1 important NPCs for each faction. I figure from your OP that the setting is already at least partly built, since you refer to it as the literary setting you've developed? [MENTION=6801219]Lanliss[/MENTION] is right about the q&a thing. It helps. Also, player input. Give the players an idea of what the world is, and ask them what sort of characters sound interesting in such a setting, and figure out if you need to add a nation, faction, conflict, or other element to the setting to allow for such a character. Those two things go a long way to bridging the gap between literary and gaming setting. [/QUOTE]

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