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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Xyl" data-source="post: 4021031" data-attributes="member: 55828">Points of Light is easy to define.Imagine a map of your campaign world. Color in all the parts which are civilized, where some power keeps monsters in check, in white. Color in the lawless, monster and bandit-infested areas in black. What does your map look like?If it looks like a bunch of white splotches - some as small as a village, some as large as an empire - surrounded by a sea of black, that's Points of Light.If it looks like a bunch of black splotches in a sea of white, that's Points of Darkness.It's perfectly possible to run a campaign in either sort of world. Points of Light worlds are easier to build piecemeal, because you can sketch out just one point to start with - such as a village - and surround it with "here there be monsters", without worrying about what is in the areas the players haven't explored.As for the long run? It doesn't matter. What matters is that your campaign world is points of light now, while you're building it. If the campaign finishes, and you've now got a Points of Darkness world, you can still run a new campaign in it - after all, you've already got everything mapped out!In other words, it's not that all campaign worlds will be Points of Light now and forever. It's just that it's easier to start in a campaign in a world that is currently Points of Light, and so that's the default assumption for new campaigns.</blockquote>