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<blockquote data-quote="LathanM" data-source="post: 2044486" data-attributes="member: 20642">I went for the bottom up. My last campaign started with a small village next to a wall similar to the Great Wall designed to keep something out. For the first 3rd of the campaign there was enough stuff going on at a local level that there wasn't any real need to expand the world. And when I did start to expand the world we only finished the first provence based on things that happened in game. The players got to go through an entire 20 level career without ever having to leave where they started. The village just grew larger as need. Game time was about 15 years with the village going from an outpost/training school to a trade center then finally a major battle scene. Keeping the players focused on a smaller part of the world allowed me greater freedom to have characters and NPCs come and go as needed to build the plot. Since I had mobile NPCs the players had all the chances to branch out and go to different places and see other cities but they weren't forced to even after half the city was leveled and they had to go and find reinforcements.&nbsp; There entire world was like DS9, a travel hub where you didn't have to find adventure it found you.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="LathanM, post: 2044486, member: 20642"] I went for the bottom up. My last campaign started with a small village next to a wall similar to the Great Wall designed to keep something out. For the first 3rd of the campaign there was enough stuff going on at a local level that there wasn't any real need to expand the world. And when I did start to expand the world we only finished the first provence based on things that happened in game. The players got to go through an entire 20 level career without ever having to leave where they started. The village just grew larger as need. Game time was about 15 years with the village going from an outpost/training school to a trade center then finally a major battle scene. Keeping the players focused on a smaller part of the world allowed me greater freedom to have characters and NPCs come and go as needed to build the plot. Since I had mobile NPCs the players had all the chances to branch out and go to different places and see other cities but they weren't forced to even after half the city was leveled and they had to go and find reinforcements. There entire world was like DS9, a travel hub where you didn't have to find adventure it found you. [/QUOTE]

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