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<blockquote data-quote="rounser" data-source="post: 419101" data-attributes="member: 1106">At risk of sounding like a broken record, I suggest planning out what adventures you'd like to run first, and then design a world to accomodate their needs.&nbsp; Adventures are the heart of the game - to prioritise worldbuilding before adventures is to put the cart before the horse, IMO.I think that the kind of worldbuilding appropriate to your needs depends on your gaming style, and involves a payoff.If you're into epic, world spanning &quot;road trip&quot; campaigns where tens or hundreds of miles of travel and visited cities are glossed over or improvised as the PCs get to their next destination, then macro level worldbuilding is probably for you.&nbsp; Using this approach, the world comes alive in a sprawling fashion that brings much of the world into view, though it may end up very sparsely detailed except for in broad brush strokes.&nbsp; It's good for epic, political or high level adventure, IMO.If you're into campaigns where attention to detail is at a premium, then micro level worldbuilding in a defined locality with (for instance) a handful of lairs, interesting wilderness locations, dungeons and detailed villages that PCs can interact with is probably for you.&nbsp; Using this approach, the world comes alive in a richness of low level detail, though the big picture of the world and it's politics might never come into view.&nbsp; It's good for low and mid level world exploration style adventure, IMO.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rounser, post: 419101, member: 1106"] At risk of sounding like a broken record, I suggest planning out what adventures you'd like to run first, and then design a world to accomodate their needs. Adventures are the heart of the game - to prioritise worldbuilding before adventures is to put the cart before the horse, IMO. I think that the kind of worldbuilding appropriate to your needs depends on your gaming style, and involves a payoff. If you're into epic, world spanning "road trip" campaigns where tens or hundreds of miles of travel and visited cities are glossed over or improvised as the PCs get to their next destination, then macro level worldbuilding is probably for you. Using this approach, the world comes alive in a sprawling fashion that brings much of the world into view, though it may end up very sparsely detailed except for in broad brush strokes. It's good for epic, political or high level adventure, IMO. If you're into campaigns where attention to detail is at a premium, then micro level worldbuilding in a defined locality with (for instance) a handful of lairs, interesting wilderness locations, dungeons and detailed villages that PCs can interact with is probably for you. Using this approach, the world comes alive in a richness of low level detail, though the big picture of the world and it's politics might never come into view. It's good for low and mid level world exploration style adventure, IMO. [/QUOTE]

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