D&D 5E Resources for building a Homebrew mini setting / sandbox

[Malcolm Serabian]

Hello gang

Thinking of starting to work on a home-brew sandbox. I'm wondering what resources people would suggest would be most helpful for planing and brainstorming building a mini-setting about the size of Nentir Vale for a sand-box style D&D game...

Things I'm thinking of looking at: The "Dungeoncrafting"articles by Ray WInninger in Dragon Mag. World Builder's Guidebook for 2e. KOBOLD guide to world building.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Marandahir]

DriveThruRPG

www.drivethrurpg.com

Or very similar content (not laid out as a book or finalized, but is free, here:

World Building – 5 Minute Workday

Building a Fantasy World XVI: Miscellaneous For this, the final entry in my worldbuilding blog series, I’ll be looking at everything else: the assorted and miscellaneous details that are unnecessary but can be fun. Details other worlds have used to bring […] <a class="more-link"...

www.5mwd.com

 

[the_redbeard]

Here's a blog post - "how to make a fantasy sandbox"

And here's a pdf of useful tables d30 Sandbox Companion

 

[aco175]

You have some good suggestions there. I would offer more advise depending on your scope and playing experience. Some things on starting locations and overall scale to strive for. You may have this though.