The Big Plan (Yes it's insane, but that's never stopped me before) (Patreon)

I sat down to lay out what the world outside Tir Thelandira looks like and this is what I came up with. All of this is preliminary and nothing is set in stone. Tir Thelandira is the little island on the right.

I don't know exactly how long it would take to write lore and draw maps of all the places on all these islands, but I'd guess it would be approximately the rest of my life. That works for me. This feels like a worthwhile thing to spend a lifetime creating.

Of course, it's not going to be a world for quite a while. It'll be a number of islands that can be inserted into another setting. That's what Tir Thelandira is right now and it's what all the islands will be for a long time. In several years, there may be regions of the map that can be used as a setting by themselves. But the finished world, in which every island on that map has its own story and its own maps? That's something so far away that you may never see it. I may never run a game in it. But that part of it isn't for us, it's for the people after us. It something we can create as a legacy to leave for the next generation of DMs.

Here are a few ideas I had for this world:

• The ruins of an ancient empire, dangerous and uninhabited except for treasure seekers. Littered with colossal statues, crumbling cities and buried palaces.
• An island populated by humans and ruled by vampiric noble families who treat the commoners as cattle. A very bleak place.
• An island of giants who raid other settlements. Basically, super-vikings.
• An island whose people were wiped out by a disease. Now overrun by undead.
• An island populated by humans but ruled by giants. There's an interesting relationship between the two groups.
• Underwater kingdoms of merfolk and aquatic elves.
• Greek stuff
• Islands with cultures inspired by East and Southeast Asia, India, East Africa and Arabia. And Europe, in case that doesn't go without saying.
• A Polynesian-inspired region, parts of which are very advanced. Like, imagine the Republic of Venice was built by the Maori.
• Islands at war
• Dwarves living on volcanoes.
• Lizardfolk with an amphibious kingdom
• An advanced society in an arctic climate.

I'd love to hear your ideas as well. I want to make this thing and I think I've proven that I can. So, what do you say?