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<blockquote data-quote="Ashrum the Black" data-source="post: 5308097" data-attributes="member: 1585"><p>Personally, I prefer a richly detailed setting, with lots of space for me to add onto. This has always been one of my hangups with 4e is its lack of information, and continueing support for the settings. I love Eberron, but I don't love digital support after the big release for support. I want a new book release covering more of the world, or at least some new conspiracies, and I want to see the gory details of the place. </p><p></p><p>As a DM, even if I never play in the world, or use it in it entirety, I love reading and mining the settings. I have never truely like the Realms much, always been more of a Greyhawk fan, but I have liberally stolen bits and pieces that I did like.</p><p></p><p>A detailed setting that covers all of the magor players, and gives lots of juicy low hanging adventure fruit to pick from in the setting material, and at the same time leaving some areas of the map open for me to drop in my material. Not every corner has to be mapped out. But the areas that are mapped out and detailed need to be detailed well so we have a nice overview of the area, some adventure hooks of slaying the bad guy, politics, even economics, would all be great. </p><p></p><p>Some time later, move on and do another area, maybe focusing on another aspect than geography. Perhaps military orders, knightly virtues in one book. Magical orders and some information on magocracy's. ETC. This is what I'm looking for. Detail the setting out, but do it in such a way that it's easy to change and re-order if there are parts I, or my players, don't like, or even like better so want to port from place to place. </p><p></p><p>-Ashrum</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ashrum the Black, post: 5308097, member: 1585"] Personally, I prefer a richly detailed setting, with lots of space for me to add onto. This has always been one of my hangups with 4e is its lack of information, and continueing support for the settings. I love Eberron, but I don't love digital support after the big release for support. I want a new book release covering more of the world, or at least some new conspiracies, and I want to see the gory details of the place. As a DM, even if I never play in the world, or use it in it entirety, I love reading and mining the settings. I have never truely like the Realms much, always been more of a Greyhawk fan, but I have liberally stolen bits and pieces that I did like. A detailed setting that covers all of the magor players, and gives lots of juicy low hanging adventure fruit to pick from in the setting material, and at the same time leaving some areas of the map open for me to drop in my material. Not every corner has to be mapped out. But the areas that are mapped out and detailed need to be detailed well so we have a nice overview of the area, some adventure hooks of slaying the bad guy, politics, even economics, would all be great. Some time later, move on and do another area, maybe focusing on another aspect than geography. Perhaps military orders, knightly virtues in one book. Magical orders and some information on magocracy's. ETC. This is what I'm looking for. Detail the setting out, but do it in such a way that it's easy to change and re-order if there are parts I, or my players, don't like, or even like better so want to port from place to place. -Ashrum [/QUOTE]
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