[Balanor]

I noticed if you examine the map of Thay item, it gives you alot of distances to and from alot of places, most of which sound like town names, yet I've never heard of anyone planning a special trip anywhere but Nethjet, Murbant or Thassalen, with the occasional Keep Of Sorrows trip thrown in just to do a quest.

Not to ruin the illusion, but the placeholders for all those other areas technically exist on the overland map which has already been setup, however those areas references on the map item have not been created and cannot be accessed because PCs can't get up onto the Plateau of Thay. Designing those areas would be the focus of the 'New Areas' option above.