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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doghead" data-source="post: 4185425" data-attributes="member: 8243">ooc - PoL singleYeah, I get this. I work much better with feedback, especially critical feedback and new or alternate ideas.Not really sure what you mean.This I get. It presents a much lower barrier to entry. And people do tend to get caught up in verisimilitude concerns with more historical settings. Of course, pseudo medieval European settings are historical in a way, but the territory has been so richly worked that people are more comfortable with the 'pseudo' element.[sblock=Japan]Me too. Nearly four years in Tokyo, then nearly four in Fukuoka. Karatsu jo is one of my favourites - and the image of it came to mind when thinking about the setting. My Japanese is not so good though - I've never really been able to keep languages once I stop using them. How is Singapore? I've passed through heaps of times, but never seen the city. I always meant to take one of the tours, but after stretching my legs, having a massage or swim, then getting a meal, the time seems to have disappeared.[/sblock]You could eliminate farmland through the use of create food and water spells. This would could actually alleviate the need for most labour, milling, baking would also be unnecessary. But then people would not have much to do, which would create a whole different feel. Magical enhancement of fields, on the other hand, could mean only a small area is needed to sustain the population. Limiting the area could mean that there was enough, but not a lot. You can still have the 'subsistence feel'. Much of the metal worked can come from recycling old material. Tools break and are repaired, no one every really asks where they came from in the first place.Edit: A|State is a game based around a similar premise. There is a single city than no one ever leaves or enters. Its on a much larger scale, but it might be a useful read. IIRC, it was available as a free .pdf download - Team 8 or Something Cubical, Cubical Something games. It had a very sepia tone as well.But you obviously have to be the arbiter of how the PC's actions affect their situation, how it contributes to (or detracts from even) the gaining of their heroic soulYeah, the old writer instincts kick in. I understand this. I was (am?) guilty of it for a long time, and I think that my games suffered as a result. I go a good bit of advice from Fajitas of Welcome to the Halmea fame. He said that he stopped trying to build in solution sets to his encounters. I reaslised that that was what I had been doing - and then unconsciously guiding the players to those specific solutions. Its hard at first, you tend to worry that the PC's are going to get stuck. But so far I have found that players can be quite inventive and generally manage to sort things out.I wasn't really looking for anything, just throwing out possible potential places of interest. My inclination would be to ask everyone to throw at least one idea into the ring. You may not use them (or would it be better to say that the PC's may not use them), but each one potentially gives the PC's something to interact with.</blockquote>

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