Setting Checklist: Questions to Consider

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6.) What is adventure.

several[/i] types of adventures, but in reality i'd say a setting would encourage one specific type over another.

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I think it is true that a campaign should focus on one or a few types of adventures. There's no reason to think, though, that a campaign set in a whole different part of the same world would necessarily be at all similar.

There's a tendency in a lot of commercial settings to have One Big Idea that their whole world/setting revolves around. To me that makes their worlds feel small, because there just isn't that much variety to them.

To take an example from my own world, a denizen of the Hellenic Kingdoms, if transported halfway across the world to the Mahalic Empire, would just not fit in. They would have a hard time even finding something to do, because the cultural conventions and the burning issues are so different.