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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6094534" data-attributes="member: 4937">Let me give you some perspective.  I was in a campaign once where the DM wrote a seven sentence description for each named NPC (see 'The Seven Sentence NPC') plus a stat block.  By the time I left, the descriptions of the named NPC's in the campaign world alone would constitute a singificant portion of your write up - and this was for a game based loosely on the Forgotten Realms.  I know that the write up of NPC's unique to that campaign world (not ones in published sources) was in the thousands.  This was also a sea going campaign.  My character sheet for my PC extended out to around 150 pages alone, do the the number of boats, buildings, retainers, hirelings, and the like that was part of my dominion.  While there are a lot of areas you out depth that campaign, we out depthed and detailed you on boats by a ton, not just in the type of boats, but in how much we could tell you about them.Forgotten Realms, mapped at a 1" = 4 miles scale over a significant portion of the Sea of Fallen Stars as well as at a 1" = 1 mile scale over important locations.  Battle of Starmantle - 40000+ combatants - play at 1"=10 yards scale and 10 units to the counter over the course of 48 hours.   Naval battles involving 15000+ sailors, over 60 ships, and literally thousands of engines of war.Look, your campaign sounds AMAZING, and is a testimony to what I consider the definitive quality of a good DM - preparation - but I assure you the level of detail you got is not unique.   It does however sound the closest to publishable of anything I've heard about.You have inspired me to kick it up a notch with my current work though.  Currently, I have a 500 page house rule handout that I give new players, and about 150 pages or so of house rules under production.  I also have over 500 pages written up on just the current adventure/campaign.   But I have so much more to do to get where I want to be.</blockquote>

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