How big is your world?

[Sir Edgar]

Did you know that at its widest point going west to east, England is only 250 miles wide?

If you're travelling on foot at 1.5 miles per hour for eight hours a day (12 miles/day), it will take you less than three weeks to get from one coast to another. By horse, it should take you less than half (?) that time. It's really not that big of a place at all. Of course, England is but one country.

So, how big is your world? In other words, what would be the equivalent size modern-day country for your entire world? How large roughly is each nation in your world?

 

[Vymair]

My campaign map is the Indonesian Peninsula. The characters have spent 90% of their time on the Island of Borneo which is split into 2 major human kingdoms, 1 elven kingdom and many other settlements of various sizes and monsters. Of course, I renamed everything and flipped the map upside down, so I don't think they ever realized it until I told them...

 

[SableWyvern]

Well, I've just discovered that the world I'm currently developing is 12,360km around at the 72nd parallel.

I have a lot of countries fairly similar in size to the British Isles or smaller, as well as some significantly larger empires (one is about 500mi x 200mi, but with a sea in the middle taking up about a quarter of the total area. The largest empire is about 400 x 600 miles, but that's mostly desert, sparsely populated and as a result the ability of the rulers to maintain direct control is difficult. There's a huge area of steppes over 2,000 miles long and about half that wide. And lots of very sparsely populated regions.

 

[Sir Edgar]

I thought Indonesia was only comprised of islands.

Do you use the same topography? What about place names?

 

[Dagger75]

One world I had from Top to bottom of one continent was 9000 miles. The place was pretty huge, then there was an unexplored hunk of land on the other side that was just discovered.

 

[Cerubus Dark]

I use the FR map as the backdrop (I like the huge map)
If your meaning how many planes well, anything in the manual of planes is open. Plus anything in the Scared Lands setting (I love the monsters & Magic)

 

[Bob Aberton]

Avalon is about the size of England, maybe a bit smaller...

 

[Agback]

G'day

My world is a spheroid with an equatorial circumference of approximately 50,000 km (31,250 mi). But the part I have mapped and described and in which most adventuring has taken place for the last fourteen years is an archipelago 1,500 km long and 320 km wide at its widest. PCs occasionally sail from one end to another in less than a week.

In the Archaic Period there are about 880 kingdoms, democracies, tyrannies etc. in Gehennum. In the Classical Period it is united into one empire. In the Archaic Period it is nominally united, but practically divided into twenty-odd satrapies that are practically independent.

Regards,


Agback

 

[Agback]

I thought Indonesia was only comprised of islands.

It is. About 6,000 of them. The Malay Peninsula is nearby, but perhaps the previous poster meant "the Indonesian Archipelago".

Regards,


Agback

 

[Ace]

Did you know that at its widest point going west to east, England is only 250 miles wide?

If you're travelling on foot at 1.5 miles per hour for eight hours a day (12 miles/day), it will take you less than three weeks to get from one coast to another. By horse, it should take you less than half (?) that time. It's really not that big of a place at all. Of course, England is but one country.

So, how big is your world? In other words, what would be the equivalent size modern-day country for your entire world? How large roughly is each nation in your world?

Well my World Midrea is slightly larger than Earth. However the main continent is roughly the size of Eurasia on Earth.

The main country we play in Vinyar is about 300 miles by 250 miles. All travel is on foot as they have no horses. On the roads (Romann style) it takes 2 weeks to cross from the southern city of Farhava to the Capitol, Landpon in the North

This presumes the standard travel pace of 20 miles a day on the excellent road system and reasonable use in Inns along the way