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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GlassJaw" data-source="post: 3647041" data-attributes="member: 22103">I'm firmly planted in "Other" as well.More maps the better, especially cities and smaller overland regions.  I actually find massive continental maps not as useful as smaller locale maps when I'm designing a campaign and adventures.I don't need full NPC stat blocks.  One-line stat description is fine just to establish relative power.  Description of personality, motivations, etc is much more important.The two things that are absolutely CRUCIAL for me in a setting are motivations and adventure hooks.  Bland descriptions and wordy historial accounts aren't useful.  I want to know what makes these NPC's, organizations, and even cities and countries tick.  How do they feel about each other?  What are their goals?  What are their alliances or feuds?  Immensely useful when using a published setting.Same goes for adventure hooks.  There's nothing more useless than describing a region in detail without some hooks about the goings-on in that region.  Same goes for NPC's, organizations/cults, and important locations.  Heck, I'll buy products just for adventure hooks.Maps + motivations + adventure hooks = lots of options for the DM = enjoyable campaign</blockquote>