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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9467090" data-attributes="member: 2209">D&D is all over the place in what it provides as examples of prep. In the <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/17068/t1-4-temple-of-elemental-evil-1e?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">1e Temple of Elemental Evil</a>, set in Greyhawk, I remember it having Hommelette with every farmhouse's inhabitants and even down to notes on where hidden cash was buried for some and lots of stuff going on. The Moathouse is fully done out. Then there is the seedy neighboring town of Nulb which had some notes on some possible pirates and loose cultist connections and that is mostly it. My 1e evil group spent about as much time in Nulb as they did in Hommellete making allies and enemies of NPCs and got into trouble in the woods nearby as well. I improvved a lot and did out a minor dungeon and some groups and NPCs and rolled some random encounters at times. When they finally killed the New Master after multiple assaults and then joining him then betraying him and it all coming together in a fantastic final fight they blew off the known rising evil of the Temple to go explore the wider world of Greyhawk and lit out for the Wild Coast. I was mostly running modules in the sandbox of Greyhawk so I switched to the Slavers modules I had once they got there and it worked well.Part of D&D is the World of Greyhawk folio and boxed set which had about forty nations with maybe three paragraphs on each, including one on military forces. A big open lightly sketched setting where a lot has to be either improvved by a DM or prepped individually more if the party wants to go to the city of Safeton in the Wild Coast.A lot of modules are fairly railroady. A lot of DM advice is to run the world sandboxy and have tables to generate encounters or reactions or such or leave it up to the DM. The players control their characters and the DM runs the world and there is a lot of variety in how to run a world.A wide latitude of styles to approach DMing and prep by the book from the start.</blockquote>

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