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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 3533040" data-attributes="member: 22779">So, Wiki is redifining a commonly used term?&nbsp; Wow.&nbsp; I guess wiki isn't a decent source of common thought at all.&nbsp; And that's pretty much my point in a nutshell.&nbsp; Most of world building is creating 23 grasses, even if its on a smaller scale.&nbsp; My point isn't you should improv world building or that you should do prepared world building. My point is that you don't need to do world building at all.&nbsp; Compare, for a moment, Ed Greenwood's Realms articles to <a href="http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/arch/vv" target="_blank">Vicious Venues</a>.&nbsp; You could easily build upon those VV articles to create an entire campaign.&nbsp; Nice little linked locations that are mostly self contained.&nbsp; To do the same with the Realms articles, you have to contrive some pretty bizarre circumstances like finding a way to make 23 kinds of grass relavent or the shape of windows.Yes, I realize that we are all creative enough to contrive situations where the fact that windows are square (like anyone would assume that they weren't), but, I'm still going to file those articles in the same place as Elven Tea Ceremonies.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 3533040, member: 22779"] So, Wiki is redifining a commonly used term? Wow. I guess wiki isn't a decent source of common thought at all. And that's pretty much my point in a nutshell. Most of world building is creating 23 grasses, even if its on a smaller scale. My point isn't you should improv world building or that you should do prepared world building. My point is that you don't need to do world building [u]at all[/u]. Compare, for a moment, Ed Greenwood's Realms articles to [url=http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/arch/vv]Vicious Venues[/url]. You could easily build upon those VV articles to create an entire campaign. Nice little linked locations that are mostly self contained. To do the same with the Realms articles, you have to contrive some pretty bizarre circumstances like finding a way to make 23 kinds of grass relavent or the shape of windows. Yes, I realize that we are all creative enough to contrive situations where the fact that windows are square (like anyone would assume that they weren't), but, I'm still going to file those articles in the same place as Elven Tea Ceremonies. [/QUOTE]

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