Li Shenron
Legend
Currently my preference is planet.
I can understand a designers need to leave the door open for a DM to add their stuff, but frankly the "unexplored continent" cliché has run its course for me. Give me a fully-defined planet instead, and if I really want to add another continent I will play it like when Columbus discovered the Americas i.e. I will just announce the discovery, say that all your maps were wrong and update the planet. Or maybe I'll add another planet.
That said, I prefer small planets. I hate to see another copy of earth, where everything takes place in a western-like continent and then you need to have a vaguely defined asian corner, a vaguely defined mesoamerican corner, a vaguely defined african corner...
So that might mean my preference could be "effective as large as a continent, but with boundaries like a planet" and no undefined continents around it. There is plenty of room for "here be dragons" areas also within the main location.
I can understand a designers need to leave the door open for a DM to add their stuff, but frankly the "unexplored continent" cliché has run its course for me. Give me a fully-defined planet instead, and if I really want to add another continent I will play it like when Columbus discovered the Americas i.e. I will just announce the discovery, say that all your maps were wrong and update the planet. Or maybe I'll add another planet.
That said, I prefer small planets. I hate to see another copy of earth, where everything takes place in a western-like continent and then you need to have a vaguely defined asian corner, a vaguely defined mesoamerican corner, a vaguely defined african corner...
So that might mean my preference could be "effective as large as a continent, but with boundaries like a planet" and no undefined continents around it. There is plenty of room for "here be dragons" areas also within the main location.
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