The_Universe
First Post
Because of the apparent choice of game (Abandoned), I'm starting to build a world from the ground up. While this is, in fact, among the more enjoyable parts of GMing, it's also a good place to get player input.
That's where you come in.
I want you, to the best of your ability, describe a place that you'd want to adventure. General terms are generally better than specific, detailed descriptions. They can be big, they can be small, they can be essentially without scale. It could be a town, a village, a forest, a swamp, a mountain, a temple, a dungeon, etc. - anywhere/anything you think should be part of a world of adventure.
I'll start.
Necropolis (currently unnamed)
Rather than tiny cemetaries all over the place, with a few larger plots and mausoleums near the larger population centers, it would be cool if, because of some long-ago cataclysm, the dead of the known world (at least the human dead) were gathered in one place. A sort of quarantine for corpses. It would have to be on an island or otherwise isolated land-mass, and would probably contain enormous crypts and mausoleums for important families, as well as smaller places for the less well-to-do. The treasures of the dead should be guarded in some way - graverobbers have to be stopped, somehow. There may be mundane guards, as well as magical wards of some sort or another.
Ultimately, this place can hide any number of secrets, artifacts, and curses, or even serve as a "home base" for a ravening army of the undead. If the cataclysm that led to the necropolis's creation has been forgotten, PC's might be forced to find out why the Necroplis exists, as well.
Just a thought. What do you want to see?
That's where you come in.
I want you, to the best of your ability, describe a place that you'd want to adventure. General terms are generally better than specific, detailed descriptions. They can be big, they can be small, they can be essentially without scale. It could be a town, a village, a forest, a swamp, a mountain, a temple, a dungeon, etc. - anywhere/anything you think should be part of a world of adventure.
I'll start.
Necropolis (currently unnamed)
Rather than tiny cemetaries all over the place, with a few larger plots and mausoleums near the larger population centers, it would be cool if, because of some long-ago cataclysm, the dead of the known world (at least the human dead) were gathered in one place. A sort of quarantine for corpses. It would have to be on an island or otherwise isolated land-mass, and would probably contain enormous crypts and mausoleums for important families, as well as smaller places for the less well-to-do. The treasures of the dead should be guarded in some way - graverobbers have to be stopped, somehow. There may be mundane guards, as well as magical wards of some sort or another.
Ultimately, this place can hide any number of secrets, artifacts, and curses, or even serve as a "home base" for a ravening army of the undead. If the cataclysm that led to the necropolis's creation has been forgotten, PC's might be forced to find out why the Necroplis exists, as well.
Just a thought. What do you want to see?
And definately a huge walled city or two. I agree with the others, some naval travel would be nice. But maybe instead of a ship we could all have pegasii, just to spite Dave... 
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