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<blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 3557763" data-attributes="member: 8447">To my mind, the initial question is something akin to &quot;Is a novel improved if the author is a good writer?&quot;Now a &quot;well-developed setting&quot; is, in and of itself, something of a fuzzy-bordered concept.&nbsp; You can have a very small scale setting that is well-developed or a very large one; you don't necessarily need published books for the setting to be developed; a few well-chose NPCs and settings can really get things going and you can certainly add elements as you go along that were not there originally.&nbsp; For me, I like a semi-plausible setting (given the existence of magic and some monsters, though usually scaling way back on &quot;intelligent races&quot;, etc.) with a real infrastructure to the normal folks lives.&nbsp; For some folks what is &quot;well-developed&quot; is a deep history; for others it is a map with lots of dungeons; for still others it is a dozen+ supplements produced by a single company along with supporting novels.Eye of the beholder, neh?&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wombat, post: 3557763, member: 8447"] To my mind, the initial question is something akin to "Is a novel improved if the author is a good writer?" Now a "well-developed setting" is, in and of itself, something of a fuzzy-bordered concept. You can have a very small scale setting that is well-developed or a very large one; you don't necessarily need published books for the setting to be developed; a few well-chose NPCs and settings can really get things going and you can certainly add elements as you go along that were not there originally. For me, I like a semi-plausible setting (given the existence of magic and some monsters, though usually scaling way back on "intelligent races", etc.) with a real infrastructure to the normal folks lives. For some folks what is "well-developed" is a deep history; for others it is a map with lots of dungeons; for still others it is a dozen+ supplements produced by a single company along with supporting novels. Eye of the beholder, neh? ;) [/QUOTE]

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