Yeah, realized how oversimplified the question was. I guess what I'm curious about is, when you go about planning the preliminary stuff of the campaign, how much do you plan/outline? I have a general idea of how I want the campaign arc to go (a very rough idea for each tier basically), and know some key ideas for the setting. So when you start with this knowledge, do you start on the large scale covering roughly what the players might encounter and then narrow down to detail the starting place, or do you keep it local and flesh out what they'll encounter first? How much do you plan as far as NPCs and interesting locations?