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It varies based on the level of the characters, but it starts with a map. It is detailed with the parties starting point out to about two days travel in all directions, then starts to become less know until they travel to or talk to NPC. Locally they know towns, rivers, seas, roads, politics...

For me all mentioned in above post with some adds: Warhammer FRPG, White Dwarf, Warhammer Battles The Call of Cthulhu Mythos Dungeon Keeper computer game Karl Edward Wagner David Gemmell Roger Zelezny - The Non-Amber stuff like Lord of Light, Jack of Shadows, Dilvish the Damned, etc. Elizabeth...

Running a Zweihander game in the Witcher computer game world with other stuff thrown in. Group of wizards are trying to locate and open dimensional doors to other realms and then raid them for magical artifacts. This is requiring them to locate ruins where the doors were, find out how to...

It is much like Academia; you have a society that requires a controlled and proven way of doing something. Those that do not follow the prescribed method are shunned and seen as radicals. :)

Resources. Deforestation, food production, and everything else. The rich just want to stay rich and finding new sources of income and so, the dump their malcontent somewhere and tax them. It also gives them loopholes to laws back home.

I have used both and some where I have a DragonBone (old electronic dice wand) BUT...

Rote. It is not always about game mechanics but your campaign world and world building. You have a magic guild, you have a magic school, you have an apprentice system, then you have a magic system that will be rote, the same spells taught the same way over and over again for generations.

Today 08/05/2024 attendance was posted as 71,000!

Been to 30+ and the I thought the first one in Milwaukee was packed and then a few years later thought it was crazy big. Then the first in Indy and the one in 2017 was just "damn, did not know there were so many gamers." Now, just think if you build it, they will come. As to sales, we don't...

Setting the stage for UFO, The Invaders, Captain Scarlett, and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea! Wonder if the license is up and now part of the public domain.

A lot of them. NPCs, cults, organizations, governments, ancient evils, BBEGs are everywhere it is the causes that are fun to send against the players. Nobles are normally the most used BBEG. Examples: Noble mother that wants the very best from her son (party member) and dislike the group...

Would they? Was watching an old 70s sci-fi movie the other day and it had a character that would always quote exceptions to the rules as subparagraphs or law cases. They were all bluff as he explained that no one reads the fine print or keeps up with rules after needing to and that when a...

Saw this one over at Deviantart

Well, it depends on the campaign setting and how the GM describes magic and its reaction with the world. The 10-pound spell book is just to impress the hicks and uneducated and is forced on Mages by academia and the Wizard Guild and is just used to rank a mage and to put a value on his...

AI images for the most or at least Photoshopped (which may be a term no longer used and by using it is showing age). The Switzerland image I have no clue about, if it is real I found where I want to be, think it has been "enhanced", flowers added, maybe the waterfall.