Campaign Setting Challenge

So years ago, Wizards of the Coast launched a Dungeons & Dragons setting search.  Basically, they put out a call to their fandom for original campaign settings.  You didn't have to be a professional designer - if the panel of judges at Wizards decided that you had a pretty cool idea, you could eventually see your work in print.  Eventually, Eberron was the proposal that won.  Which is fine, because Eberron is pretty cool.

Anyway, like just about everybody who knew about the contest back then, I had a bunch of ideas.  I never submitted any of them, the ideas being pretty crude and unrefined, but I did give it some thought.  Talking with some friends of mine, reminiscing about this contest.  Eventually, we came up with a challenge similar to Script Frenzy or NaNoWriMo.  Write 50 pages of RPG material, all in one month.

So my contribution will be to dust off one of my old campaign setting ideas and see if I've learned anything about design in the last decade.  For this I've chosen the most straightforward of my settings, Sunken Realms.  I plan on putting my thoughts and ideas as a sort of "commentary track" as I work on this.  The pace seems like it will be much easier to maintain than the other competitions of this sort that I've done in the past (I only need to do less than 2 pages a day to hit my target) so this should be completely doable.

It might seem a little like cheating to dust off an old idea for this, but:
1) I'm going to be writing everything from scratch, and
2) What I *do* have is pretty thin.

Sunken Realms can pretty much be described as a water world run by expansionist spanish halflings.  See, I *said* it was pretty thin.  Hopefully over the next month we can flesh this out so that it's at least somewhat interesting.