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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 3066374" data-attributes="member: 32740">At the most basic level you need to general locales - a place to adventure, and a place where the adventure ISN'T.  The two most common approaches are, of course, top-down (starting with the broadest parts of the setting and working down to where you have enough detail to start), and bottom-up (starting with only the most immediate locations and building outward to the limit of where you want the setting to go.)  Personally, I take both approaches at the same time.I'm ALWAYS tinkering with world-building on some level whether I have a game going or not.  Even in the middle of gameless dry spells that last for years I've occupied myself with world-building stuff.  When it comes to actually getting one going I have settled on first deciding where the outer limits will be, what the grand plan will look like, but then in order to get things started without having to have EVERYTHING filed and on hot-standby I detail as much as I need in order to run at least several initial adventures without needing to supply more than general information about the world as a whole.</blockquote>