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Originally Posted by John Carroll
The world is going to be about twice as large. I have dragons and like the idea of epic battles and vast unexplored regions.
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You can have vast, epic battles and huge unexplored regions on a planet 1/3 the size of ours. Especially if there's no fast travel like trains or airplanes. If most people are limited to ~30 miles/day, an expanse of a thousand miles is huge.
Earth still has vast, unexplored regions. Most of them are covered by ice. You probably need ice caps; you don't need the largest continents to be the coldest ones.
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As far as the metals go, I need lots of precious metals and gems for treasure. There are dragons after all.  I also make much of the rock more dense than Earth, which will add more mass to the world I believe.
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The amount of metals *on the surface* and the density of rock that people have access to, doesn't necessarily directly connect to how much metal is under the crust. (Well. It sort of does, but you'd need to provide a lot more details than the average fantasy novel gives, for a geologist to be able to draw any conclusions about that. Having a lot more gold & gems than medieval Europe had floating around says absolutely nothing about the planet's composition.)