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If you want to go by actual historical information then there would be lots and lots of villages all over the place with nearly everybody living in them. For early medieval numbers the best resource available is the Domesday Book. In 1086 or so England (NOT Britain, England) had 13,418...

Mutants and Masterminds and Blue Rose (and probably other games) use a mechanism that is fairly similar to this. Basically, every time you are hit you make a saving throw to see how much it affects you. Most of the time the effect is to get a cumulative -1 to future rolls. One doesn't have a...

I'll reply to this and then shut up. I've stated that the current implementation of pixies aren't really to my taste, and given reasons why. I've also pointed out why I think many of the restrictions are, in fact, unnecessary and at least partly fail to address the issue that they are trying...

I couldn't give you experience, so I'm replying :-). The other issue is that the density of air is primarily (not completely) determined by the height above sea level and NOT the height above the ground. So a pixie not being able to fly tens of feet into the air due to air pressure would not...

I disagree that this is good as is possible. It would be improved with some limitiations to the flight. For example, "A character who hits the pixie while it is flying can push it 3 squares in any direction, even vertically" or "A pixie finds flight quite tiring. It cannot fly as a double...

I admit that I'm not all that knowledgeable about hovercraft, so perhaps you'd point out the example of one that can go 60 feet up into the air, can cross 50 ft wide chasms regardless of their depth while having the limitation that it has to descend down to 5 ft every few seconds. If you're...

You might want to note here that the limitation is 5 feet above ground and NOT 5 feet above sea level. That is precisely my point. Another poster said that there ARE, in fact, many animals with these limitations. You can definitely make either the argument "Its magic. Deal" or the argument...

I'll take that as an admission that you can NOT come up with a living creature with these restrictions. And the ground effect of hovercraft doesn't let one go up 60 ft in the air every 6 seconds. You can like pixes or not like them. That doesn't change the fact that they don't resemble any...

Quite powerful? Yes. Overpowered ? Depends on far too many factors to make a clear decision. It can break some encounters, it is all but irrelevant in others I admit that this is one of the main reasons that 4e isn't really to my tastes. But I reserve the right to note where yet another...

Please name a living creature that is limited in ANY of the following ways 1) Stays within 5 ft of the ground (what appears to be the case for pixies until one carefully reads the rules) regardless of incentive to get away from the ground (ie, don't confuse "does not like to fly high" with...

Well, they maybe wasted the opportunity to create a balanced and reasonable pixie :-). While its probably not gamebreaking, the pixie is pretty clearly far superior to something like a halfling. Its faster, it can fly, it can hide in its companions squares, and it has absolutely no drawbacks...

I've a slightly different take. It depends on how "fair" it seemed to the players. In one 3.0 D&D game, we had a TPK with a high level party. But it didn't feel at all fair. Basically, our particular party had no chance against the undead monstrosities we were fighting. A different party would...

If this was proposed by a GM who I trusted then I'd probably go along with it (albeit with reservations). But I wouldn't join such a game run by a GM that I didn't know. The risk of that GM being an anal-retentive control-freak would just seem way, way too high.

settings - What games have good treatments of sub-Saharan Africa, or fantasy analogues? - Role-playing Games - Stack Exchange mentions some others

Call of Cthulhu has source books for Morocco and Kenya. And various adventures are set in Egypt. Masks of Nyalatharp has some, I think that there are others

The underground cities in Capadocia (Turkey) Pretty much all of Nepal Pretty much any glacier (New Zealand in particular has lots and lots of glorious examples) Great Barrier Reef

I've recently started Pathfinder Society play here in Toronto and encountered almost none of these issues. The games have sometimes been a little late in starting but they ARE scheduled for 6pm and traffic can often be bad and hard to predict. But other than that they've been well run decent...

If you're looking for (VERY) pretty pictures and some descriptions then I'd heartily suggest the Opsrey books. Books that cover fairly wide subjects often have pictures of both sides. While I haven't looked at that particular book, Roman Battle Tactics looks like it might be just about perfect...

Not quite sure if this counts, but the group that I was GM'ing deliberately told the story (one of the characters was a bard) about how they'd first called out their challenges to the dragon so as to make the fight honourable and then charged it in a cone formation (the dragon, of course, had...

I use non adjustable wooden shelves. They're handmade by a local carpenter and are quite sturdy and reasonably cheap (about the same price as high end IKEA shelves). He even makes them to order (his standard shelves aren't quite big enough for RPG stuff). I've had my RPG collection on two sets...