Three Settings

So, I've designed three general settings for RPG campaigns over the years.

Attariil is an island nation, at peace internally and with the four surrounding islands. We played in a 6 month long 4e campaign there, and I think it was pretty cool. Travel time was very short, due to me not working out distances or having random encounters. I was disappointed at how small it became after letting the PCs traipse all over without regard to the distance. And then I ruined the campaign with the stupid war house rules. But I digress.

Second we have Northreach - a frontier outpost on the northern edge of civilization. Travel to the outpost was only possible through a dangerous canyon that was completely impassable for half the year. The outpost was created to spread the domain of Baron Vedron of Kor, a large city to the south. The PCs who played in that campaign got to explore the Icepeak mountains and fight a young white dragon. That game only lasted a month or two, as I was trying to make peace with 4e but couldn't force myself to keep running encounter after encounter. I made a stable of interesting NPCs for the characters to interact and bond with, but I don't know how successful that ended up being.

Third is the Guardian Forest where lived many tribes of Guardians, people who borrowed power from the earth and defended their forest from invasions. This setting never saw play because I've been tuning it endlessly for the past 10 years. Important and unchanging facts about this setting were the nature-worshiping Guardians, ancestral spirits who walk the forest and share wisdom with the living, and an evil empire ruled by the victim of a psychic menace.

So now I'm thinking each of these three places could be parts of the same game world! Attariil stays in the ocean near the other four kingdoms (mainlanders might call these the Five Kingdom Islands collectively, much to the chagrin of the Attariin people.)

There's lots more work I can do to tie the three setting together, like making the empire from the Guardian Forest the ones that sent the Northreach expedition. (ok, that's about the extent of it.) But I also get a large area of the empire that would be the main area for any campaigns. It'd be feudal and divisive, so that there'd be plenty of chance for war.