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<blockquote data-quote="fba827" data-source="post: 5167147" data-attributes="member: 807"><p>Craft a good scenario to get the PCs to think more than just 'wherever'</p><p></p><p>Example: Earthquakes are destorying the homeland kingdom. Scholars have recently realized there is another continent a couple month's boat ride away. So the PCs are tasked to go by boat to find a new land that the kingdom and its citzens can migrate to. You gloss over the boat ride as a narrative opening to the campaign, and start off with the PCs (and maybe a handful of fellow adventurers depending on whether or no you want NPCs there or not) on this new continent.</p><p>They have to find a land area that is large, unused, and enough resources to support an influx of people. Not to mention 'safe'</p><p></p><p></p><p>Have some basic geography ideas in mind for this continent. They could head to woodland to see how safe and plentiful the lumber supply is, mountains to see if there is good mining, etc.</p><p>Beyond that, i'd basically just make up a list of random encounters for different areas.</p><p></p><p>And then decide stuff like, are there any other civilzations on this continent, what is there level of development like, are they friendly/hostile/etc. though for the above example scenario, it's probably better if the existing civilzation is small and/or not advanced. Maybe they are all "primitive style" (using the primal power source if you're using 4th edition) meaning that style is 'off limits' to the PCs snce they come from a more 'civilized' culture on the originating continent.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fba827, post: 5167147, member: 807"] Craft a good scenario to get the PCs to think more than just 'wherever' Example: Earthquakes are destorying the homeland kingdom. Scholars have recently realized there is another continent a couple month's boat ride away. So the PCs are tasked to go by boat to find a new land that the kingdom and its citzens can migrate to. You gloss over the boat ride as a narrative opening to the campaign, and start off with the PCs (and maybe a handful of fellow adventurers depending on whether or no you want NPCs there or not) on this new continent. They have to find a land area that is large, unused, and enough resources to support an influx of people. Not to mention 'safe' Have some basic geography ideas in mind for this continent. They could head to woodland to see how safe and plentiful the lumber supply is, mountains to see if there is good mining, etc. Beyond that, i'd basically just make up a list of random encounters for different areas. And then decide stuff like, are there any other civilzations on this continent, what is there level of development like, are they friendly/hostile/etc. though for the above example scenario, it's probably better if the existing civilzation is small and/or not advanced. Maybe they are all "primitive style" (using the primal power source if you're using 4th edition) meaning that style is 'off limits' to the PCs snce they come from a more 'civilized' culture on the originating continent. [/QUOTE]
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