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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Droogie" data-source="post: 1447075" data-attributes="member: 1298">Thats basically what I've done. I have land masses and such all scribbled on a pretty basic map but the only areas I've detailed are a couple of kingdoms on an island about the size of Ireland.  I believe this tiny little area will be more than enough to carry my PCs to 20th level, thanks to the rapid rate of level advancement in 3e. There is a lot of adventure to be had in a small area if the DM is willing to cook up the right story. As for the rest of the world, I have a general idea of what's around, painted with "broad strokes".  None of it is even on paper. Its just enough to give the players a sense of the world out there without making lots of fruitless work for me. Since some of my players can't even remember the name of the NPC thats been traveling with them for most of the game, I'm not going to go through the trouble of naming every city on the continent across the sea, unless of course its needed. Addressing the issue of gaming frequency, we have a nice deal worked out: There are 4 of us, and we each take turns Dming. There are 4 different games going at the same time, but as I said, the rapid rate of advancement keeps any of the games from stagnating. Giving someone else the DMing task is a great thing, since it allows each of us to recharge our DMing batteries until our turn comes around. It also gives each individual campaign an "episodic" feel which seems to serve the game well. Dming is a tough task and I can't imagine having to do it every week for a year. No wonder most games fizzle and die.I highly recommend this system. Even if you suck as a DM, you just need to be good enough so that everyone has a good time.  There are a lot of cool d20 games out there, and this is a nice way of trying out that Spycraft or Star Wars game that's collecting dust in your geek collection.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> You might even discover that your group meets more often because of it.</blockquote>

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