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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Recidivism" data-source="post: 5833843" data-attributes="member: 51740">I tend to prefer developing smaller locales myself. A mining town on the edge of extinction, a bustling trade city, a mountainous monastery. I haven't decided whether or not my preference is part and parcel of my favoritism towards low-magic, highly political games. Either way, it's a lot easier for DMs of all stripes to take a specific town or city and plop it in their own campaigns. Since I like for the time I spend to be valuable, I focus on NPCs and locations that I can recycle or reuse.The biggest concern for me is not whether there's too much detail -- I don't think there'd ever be too much detail for me as a DM. The problem is when too much of that detail becomes part of established fiction that people come to know outside the gaming table. A player in Forgotten Realms might want to go to the Elfsong Tavern. What if I don't want it there? I don't really want players griping because my judgement calls don't align with what they know of the game setting from other sources.</blockquote>