Recent content by robertsconley

Appreciate the review. I am always learning something from detailed reviews. I am glad you like the details of how magic and religion plays out in the setting. My players deserves much of the credit as we devoted whole campaigns to where everybody played a mage or everybody played a member of a...

The 3 step process may be accurate but it also vague and unhelpful to the novice. In addition most roleplayers play D&D or other Fantasy RPGS so while Google Maps and many internet resource are great for other genres they don't help as much for fantasy. In addition using existing setting is...

A person can get through my 35 steps to create a fantasy sandbox in two weeks spending 2 to 3 hours each evening. While Alexander's setup does differ than mine I don't see anything in there that suggests it would take any longer then what I recommend. The tradeoff being $$$ that you spend...

Good article and I am glad to see you got Southland up. I hope everybody enjoys it. I do have some comments on event triggers. I use a similar technique that I developed from following and participating in writing "what-ifs" for alternaty history forums. (http://www.alternatehistory.com)...

Great Article. The only thing I would add is that from working on the Necromancer Wilderlands Boxed Set and my own Points of Light that it is helpful to have a section before your local area that details some of the regions on your sandbox map. For example a paragraph on the Darkwoods, notes on...