World Building and the Campaign: How Far into the weeds?
So, I have a gaming group and I'm digging the whole DMing thing again. As I've mentioned, we are running through a heavily modified version of Keep on the Borderlands using OSRIC. So far, we've explored a bit of the keep and the kobold section of the Caves of Chaos. I've placed the keep in the requisite human frontier. The Moinar Marches, as I've mentioned is a politically turbulent place. Not only are there political minefields to be navigated, but spiritual as well. For instance, there is the Church of Daegraed, the Lord of the Dawn. Daegread is the half mortal/half devine son of the Mortal Celestial King Charondros I and Gaehoen the Divine Mother. Gaehoen herself is the basis of many other religions. In some, she is the only god (monotheistic) and in others, she is part of a pantheon. There are splinters off the church, cults, sects, etc. I want there to be a very tangible feel of political strife (between the Moinar and Stennish peoples and aligned fa