How big is your world?

[Jürgen Hubert]

The world I am developing is about the same size as Earth. The region I will focus on is about the size of Europe and Africa combined, maybe a bit larger. So far, I have listed 18 regions, and I plan to add 10 more (I am still in the brainstorming phase, so there are no maps on my site yet...). On average, they each have about 15 million inhabitants, and most of these people are crammed into gargantuan cities...

 

[Vymair]

Yes, I meant the Indonesia Archipelago. And yes, I change place name mostly using english names from small towns.

 

[S'mon]

My world Ea has an equatorial circumference of about 18000 miles, the largest continent is some 7800 miles long east-west, vaguely turtle-shaped, and occupies a large proportion of the northern hemisphere. The primary gaming area, the Lands of the Old Empire, are about 2000x2000 miles, or 4 million square miles. It's the equivalent of Europe from north Africa to Scandinavia and from the Atlantic to the Steppes, although the map is totally different. Typically nations are about the size of real-world France (Bretania), Scandinavia (Trafalgis) etc, or somewhat bigger, Trafalgis being about 1000 miles long on its east-west access, maybe 50 miles north-south.

 

[Psion]

My game world is about earth sized. The main continent I am playing on currently is a bit smaller than South America. The island off the coast where I am currently running is a bit larger than England.

There is a second major continent on the world that I have some other game elements on -- it's bigger than Eurasia.

The world, however, is in the cell of a tesseract style multidimentional structure that links it to 7 other Earth sized world. Those worlds are also linked to a smaller solid tesseract with 8 half-earth-radius inverted "bubble" worlds that have light sources in the center that produce an anti-gravitational field that simulates the effect of gravite. So all told, I have a bit of real-estate to work with.

Oh, I generate my world maps with the touch of a button using Fractal Terrains.

 

[Storminator]

I used strange math to determine the size of my world. I have a mountain formation called the Claws of the Beast, where allegedly the evil god struck at the homeland of our heroes. This left five enormous splinters of rock, 1 mile wide and 50 miles tall. Needles in the sky. I wanted to know how far away you could see them, so I made the radius of the planet 2500 miles (earth is 4000).

Of all the world I've only detailed a 500 mile diameter circle. I have some good ideas about three or four times that area, and vague notions of what's beyond that/

PS

 

[Zappo]

Oh, nowadays I play Planescape which is infinite in several ways. But back during OD&D, I had a homebrew world which I spent several years developing. It felt huge, and adventures often involved taking months of travel, and I even had an unknown continent just in case, until I actually did the math and found out that the equator was only something like 12000 km. And the only very detailed bit (the one most adventures were in) was just a fraction of that. A bit depressing, but it definitely makes you realize how friggin' BIG Earth is.

 

[seasong]

Varies by what kind of campaign I want to run. My first world ever was about twice the diameter of Earth, with a continent that could easily swallow the American & Eurasian continents whole. Individual kingdoms, city-states and whatnot, however, tended to be pretty small (on the order of 50-300 miles diameter at the most).

Another fantasy setting I have, on the other hand, has an empire that takes a month to cross, assuming a soldier's hard march (40+ miles per day)... but the world itself is much smaller and countries tend to be more intimate with one another.

I also like running an occasional campaign in a mythic version of Europe, which is mapped much like, well, Europe.

 

[Kweezil]

Oops, double-post. Sorry.

 

[Kweezil]

My own world is approximately Earth-size, though most of it doesn't exist except as a concept inside my head. The main continent stretches from the north pole to the tropics (~2500 miles by 4000 miles, IIRC, IDHTBIFOM) and shaped vaguely like north america (entirely by accident, it just happened that way), with a huge ocean-filled crater where the Gulf of Mexico should be.

Eventually I'll have a webpage, with maps and everything, and then I could provide a link. :\

 

[ichabod]

The world for the new campaign I just started has about 10,000 times the surface area of the earth. The area that the campaign has started in is much smaller. It is an inhabited area around an ocean about the size of the United States. Around the ocean is an inhabited area of 400 to 800 miles. Around that is a horkload of wilderness.