No problem! (Or rather, sorry!) I figured you'd already answered these questions and only listed them to show how one thing led to another - but it's way too much fun to play even with other people's worldbuilding. >_>
Heh, I tend to be great at details of botany and everyday life, but never stop to consider distances and numbers. Then suddenly the question arises just how many people are going to attend that royal feast and how far/for how long have they travelled? And if character A can ride to the next village over to get to the market, why can't she go the same distance in the other direction? OK, let's remove the big city a big further from character A's homestead... but now an obscure reference in chapter 1 will no longer work and have to be rewritten... if only I had thought about this from the beginning! ;) So although there is such a thing as overthinking stuff, there's also the problem of Not Having Done Your Homework. Better to have a lot of unused material. It can always be used to cobble together A Geography Of X-World (possibly alongside A History Of X-World and An Ethnography Of X-World) to be published separately. Or to kick of the Role-Playing system to accompany your books! XD
Heh, I tend to be great at details of botany and everyday life, but never stop to consider distances and numbers. Then suddenly the question arises just how many people are going to attend that royal feast and how far/for how long have they travelled? And if character A can ride to the next village over to get to the market, why can't she go the same distance in the other direction? OK, let's remove the big city a big further from character A's homestead... but now an obscure reference in chapter 1 will no longer work and have to be rewritten... if only I had thought about this from the beginning! ;)
So although there is such a thing as overthinking stuff, there's also the problem of Not Having Done Your Homework. Better to have a lot of unused material. It can always be used to cobble together A Geography Of X-World (possibly alongside A History Of X-World and An Ethnography Of X-World) to be published separately. Or to kick of the Role-Playing system to accompany your books! XD
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