How big is your world?

[Quasqueton]

How big is your world? I'm not asking for the diameter of the planet, but rather how big is the setting of your campaign?

The Greyhawk campaign setting is about the size of Real World Europe. The Forgotten Realms is a really big continent?

How big is your homebrew setting? (Can you describe it's size in relation to the Real World?)

Is your setting a place to support multiple campaigns? Or do you change settings with each new campaign?

Quasqueton

 

[alsih2o]

My known world is a slightly modified version of north america, turned so that east is north.

The unknown is also based on the real world

 

[hong]

Britannia 3E is roughly 1000 miles E-W by 1000 miles N-S.

It's tiny.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

The main continent IMC is roughly the size of North America. Maybe a little less, but close enough. As for the rest, well, there are about five other major continents, but size doesn't really work in total because they're all seperate Material Planes divided by the Elemental Plane of Water...err, Oceans.

As for different types of games...well, the main continent is your classic Sword and Sworcery type world. Mostly Greyhawk Gods but a lot of my own thrown in major places. The other continents each roughly represent another culture, though. There's Oriental, Greek, Egyptian, and Norse like continents with a big continent off to the northeast called Craig Ddraih...Welsh for Dragon Rock.

 

[Desdichado]

Relatively small, for most homebrews I do. Certainly nothing larger than Europe itself, often no more than the England/Scotland/Wales island. Say, is there a name for that island as a whole?

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Relatively small, for most homebrews I do. Certainly nothing larger than Europe itself, often no more than the England/Scotland/Wales island. Say, is there a name for that island as a whole?

You mean for England/Scotland/Wales? Well, Britain, really...

 

[Wombat]

My next campaign (still in planning stages) is Size Unknown (at least to the players). They will be starting in a fair-sized city on the edge of Uncharted Territory. So to begin with they will be dealing with a neighborhood, then a city, then the outlying regions; the whole (semi-mapped) area could probably be about the size of Mexico.

In my last campaign, now sadly deceased, we used Harn, so that was a given

 

[derelictjay]

Never finished drawing the map, heh. But my original campaign for the brand spanking rules back when 3ed came out was on it, and my new one is on it, different area, and attitude (and pantheon), but same continent. The first one wasn't that large, about the length of a single coastline, like the gulf coast of Texas (except facing west). The new one, a greek-steampunk campaign is pretty large, though I center it on a single city. But the overall campaign world, has got to be a huge continent (maybe like Eurasia). I've got a lot of ideas for other areas but haven't fleshed them out.

 

[kigmatzomat]

How big is your world? I'm not asking for the diameter of the planet, but rather how big is the setting of your campaign? (Can you describe it's size in relation to the Real World?)
Quasqueton

I've modified Dragonlance. The DL Atlas (1st ed) had a *tiny* world, so I jacked up the scale and made it bigger. Solamnia is roughly the size of New York State in my game (~50,000 sq miles), and they stay in the northern half of it, with occassional forays across the continent taking weeks of travel in each direction.

Is your setting a place to support multiple campaigns? Or do you change settings with each new campaign?

I'm not sure. I reused one world multiple times. I *might* reuse this variant of Krynn later, given it's very personalized feel, but I dunno. I have trouble seeing it without the same party.

 

[the Jester]

My campaign takes place on the inside surface of a gigantic air bubble about 780,000 miles in diameter.

Of course, the 'local region'- the equivalent of 'what's on the map' to most pcs- is about 5280 miles x 4080 miles. Lots of it is water.