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Originally Posted by jamesh
Thank you for the reply. I think you've saved me $70. I was hoping against hope that the boxed set was more than a list of encounters and some metaplot, but the more I hear, the more it seems that these two things compose the bulk of the material therein. For the time being, I think the PG is actually a better deal for me in terms of content versus sticker price.
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It true that the short answer the boxed is a list of one or two paragraph encounters.
But in reality it is more complex than that. One thing is fact that nearly every hex has a encounter listed in it. Another is that the authors (of which I am one) tried to make each encounter relate to each other in subtle ways.
What this does for your game is that you can start your players in any region of the Wilderland and they can pick a direction in which they want to do. You can quickly scan what they are getting into and use that as a framework to construct an adventure. In addition this allows you remain consistent if players ever choose to re-visit the area.
This is opposed to say the forgotten realms/greyhawk style that give you say a forest decribe what roughly in the forest and then leaves it to you fill out where all the encounter and locales are. And much of a FR/Greyhawk is filled out with the bird's eye view of the world. For the wilderlands this is the role of the Player's Guide.
The wilderlands take the opposite tack. We realized that the most tedious part of GMing is creating all the encounter and locales. Most GMs limit themselves to a couple of dozen at best because of time constraints. With the Wilderlands that limitation is removed. Plus we stayed away from imposing any grand campaign meta-plot (there are plenty of local ones) so you can make the wilderlands your own either stand-alone or part of an existing world.
And you download the rorystone stone preview to see a small sample of what the boxed set will offer.
http://www.judgesguild.com/pdf/rorystone.pdf
Enjoy
Robert Conley
Author of Map 5, 8, and 12, Wilderlands of High Fantasy