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 Maybe the PARTY has a level?
-=== Treasure tells a story ===
+==== Treasure tells a story ====
 You kill some goblins, but they are carrying dwarven-crafted weapons carved with symbols of a forgotten clan. Hmm, sounds like there’s an abandoned dwarven lair somewhere in this region. If you deciphered the runes in the depths of the dwarven mines, you could learn that the exiles established another hidden fortress in the valleys to the north.
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 Wanted posters
 There were other kinds of bounties that cropped up in town: the local priesthood is paying gold for water collected from the Opal Caves to treat a spreading fever, or an apothecary who pays for certain herbs growing in the Frog Marches. These weren’t plots, just simple excuses to go out and maybe earn some guaranteed money if you found what you were looking for and made it back.
-Make it EPIC 8?  EPIC 9?
 So a lot of the day-to-day organizing is going to be the same.
-Character creation rules. Including what books are allowed and homebrew is used.
-Variant Rules (like from the DMG). Such as downtime to level up, or modified rest durations, whatever.
+==== Mustering Rules ====
 How sessions are scheduled and any mustering rules (how often a player can request a session, how session parties are formed). I recommend setting up a warhorn event for facilitating DM and player sign ups.
 How campaign calendar/narrative is managed. Since you are doing a smaller scale shared campaign, you have more power over the overall narrative. You may give each PC a certain amount of Time Units to use in each Time Period (e.g. 28 days in 1 month that can be used for adventuring and/or downtime activities), or you may just say, "Each inactive PC accumulates Downtime while the active PCs go off and adventure." Or something in the middle would be using narrative milestones where you just advance the calendar as necessary.
 Rules for rewards. Specifically, rules for how magic items are handed out.
 Downtime activity rules. I guarantee someone will want to make scrolls or potions, and probably even permanent magic items.
 DM rules. Assuming you are splitting DMing duties. What DMs are empowered to do (such as, "How many magic items can they place?").
 What kind of tools are there for DMs who want to create a West Marches campaign? Is it done through a wiki page or facebook or something? What kind of things need to be on the random encounter tables, and do players get to see the encounter tables? Thanks for the help!
 I think the DMG has some okay encounter tables.
 My main recommendation is to set aside encounter balancing. I read a great article recently that suggested not trying to balance encounters against the party. Instead, create a thematic locale with thematically appropriate monsters to populate it, then figure out the relative challenge to the party and inform your PCs when they hear about it (and especially if they manage to sneak up to spy on it).
 This works great for West Marches because (in theory) you are creating a world that gets more dangerous as things get further away. That means that any location you create should fit some distance out based on how dangerous it is.
 So if you just create a bunch of locations and start slotting them into the world.