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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 3307953" data-attributes="member: 172">Well, I'm still experimenting with my "kitchen sink world", my "two-pronged attack" consists of:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Lists</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Regions</li> </ul>Not in that order. <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    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I am taking the game elements I want to include, and sorting them into regions. I have four major continents. Each has its own flavor/character. And I am trying to sort races, classes, and setting material into those four continents.Of course, I'm not done with this activity yet, but it's my strategy. Here's a look at what my homebrew kitbash world looks like, with a few of my allocated regions plotted out:[sblock=Click me for the map]<img src="http://users.gmpexpress.net/adkohler/pics/merc_world_hammer_projection.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock]I'll add a third tool in my toolbelt: play up coincidences. Sometimes you'll find redundancies in published material by different publishers. One way to make these elements seem less redundant and more linked is to play up any areas of overlap.A quick example: Psigates from the old Talaron article in the Dragon feature as part of my world. I am also using Bluffise and the Dry Sands region in the West continent, and Hamunaptra in the center continent. Both Hamunaptra and Dry Lands feature jackal-headed humanoids. Okay, do we need 2 races of jackal headed humanoids? Well, what I did is made the Dry Lands version a subrace. They are psionic, so arrive at the desert in the west via the network of psionic gates. I may even decide to make them the tenders or keepers of the gates on the world.</blockquote>

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