Crystal: The Price

The idea that I am most seriously considering involves creating maps for entire regions, as opposed to just the individual zones and then an Overworld to connect them. Each zone would be make up a portion of the region, connected to the remaining zones by its own detailed map/maps (Think of a mapped out King's Road or something, if you will.)

This is further shaped by a camp, similar to the BoF games possibly, where you will be able to choose a region as your destination. Within that region there will be dungeons and towns all interconnected with interesting and pertinent transitional maps. For instance: http://rpgmaker.net/games/4001/images/26194/

The above being the 'Capitol Region' or whatever (Note: above places are not necessarily represented in game. Anywhere.) Your upgradable camp/town/fortress would then act as a hub between all of the regions within the game.

Sorry if that was a somewhat rough and rambling explanation.

My main concern is that this would become overly tedious for the player.
Would numerous methods of quickly traveling about some of the zones remedy this sufficiently?

Toss out your opinions and questions, please! Feedback (in whatever form) is always highly appreciated! Thanks again!

Ah, thanks! I hadn't heard of this! That does sound useful. I would most likely use this spell alongside several static travel options (portals, carriages, tremendously ancient and misunderstood relics from long past civilizations, Etc.)