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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ralts Bloodthorne" data-source="post: 2965527" data-attributes="member: 6390">The central section we are currently working with is geographically isolated by four things.The Northern Mountain Range, which is inhabited by Ogres, Dragons, Wyverns, Orcs, Goblins, and Ettins, to name a few. This makes the whole range fairly dangerous, with only three mountain passes through the range.  The Western pass, unlabeled so far on our map, is currently unusable. The small fortresses guarding the pass have been abandoned. There is a large section of the pass that recently slid into one of the ravines, making it so that wagons and animals cannot pass through, and it is difficult and dangerous for people to make the trek on foot. We'll pick a nasty little monster that is able to climb the cliff walls that picks off travellers. If we can't find one, we'll modify some giant spiders for our purposes.  The Central Northern pass was recently discovered, but unfortunately it leads into the Walled Jungle. The Walled Jungle is a large section of tropical jungle that is full of vegepygmies, kobolds, and other small, vicious creatures. Surrounding the whole jungle is a 50 foot wall of a brownish substance that looks like carmel but feels like obsidian. In places it is broken and breached, and the gate that was once there is long gone.  THe Eastern Pass is fairly straight forward, but with a massive stone drawbridge over a massive river of lava from the active volcanoe. The drawbridge is made up of granite, obsidian, onyx, and quartz crystal, and is 250' wide, 30 feet thick, and 1200 feet long. It can retract to either side, and is controlled from a room within the Southern fortress. Who built it, when, and how is completely unknown, although the dwarves are honest in stating that they wish they had built it, but it's beyond thier skills.  To the South, there is only a single pass, and that leads down to our Southernmost detailed kingdom. It goes from hills, and is a winding balley between several massive mountains and a volcano. It follows the river, which quickly leads into that fertile band.The islands to the East are surrounded by riptides, sharp teethed rocks, and huge reefs that lie just below the surface to rip the bottom out of any ship that gets near them. Several of the islands are inhabited. The most famous of all was the "Taxing Wizard of the Eastern Islands" who once taxed clothing using the colour blue. For 30 years, the wizard arrived every time clothing was created that featured the color blue, and taxed it according to his mood and whimsy. However, about 100 years ago, he quit arriving, and is presumed dead.The Western Islands and reefs are by far the most dangerous. From what some sages believe, the northern and southern range drop off into the ocean and meet together some 5 miles off the coast, resulting a mean ring of teeth. The warm waters, a swift and hard current flowing from west to east and pushing the tides and waters hard against the coastline, have still nutured some large and dangerous shoals.The worst part, however, is the creatures that live upon the islands. These creatures are accomplished ocean raiders, despite the fact that they mainly stick with outrigger canoes. Now, for these, we could use goblins, minataur, kobold, orc, but we need something different. Something that would be strange and bizarre to our players and the characters both. If worse comes to worse, we can design our gill-having wind/sea sorcery amphibian raiders ourselves, and hey, sometimes that is more fun.Personally, I want to avoid using the "noble misunderstood" savages for these guys. I suggest the Barbary Coast circa early 1800's as far as attitude.Well, speaking of attitudes, personally, I suggest we do modify the modes of dress. I like the idea of having a society loosely based on the Minoan dress and clergy, and have males wear the full length robes along with sleeve gloves, along with viels across the face.Picture the buckskin clothing (breeches, vest, intricate beadwork, intricate stitching) being worn by the females, while the males wear floor length robes with viels and hoods. Add in the Egyptian religion, and Japanese customs, and you have something really interesting."Take your shoes off and bow before the statue of the God Emperor before entering the temple of Osiris." would feel strange being told that on the roof of an Anasazi cliff dwelling temple, by a woman dressed in buckskin who is taking off her shoes before climbing down the ladder.Now, if we can pull it off for all of the sections we're going to do, that'll give the region a feeling that they aren't all the same, that things differ from one region to another. Add in maybe a few monsterous reaces that actually are civilized, or perhaps they are slave races...OOOOOHHH!!!There we go. Use Romanesque style of slavery (which sucks, but it could be far worse) for a HUGE slave caste. I'd like to say goblin or orcs, as they are familiar, but we've already established that we have flinds. What if the gnolls are the slave race here, having had multiple generations, and they view themselves as a vital part of the kingdom, to include the fact that they take thier role as military slaves seriously.You know, we often complain about the fact that D&D dragons are just sages in these awesomely perfect bodies, but what if we add in a dragon, maybe give it Diety Rank Zero and make it bright gold, with a rainbow strip down its back. A scion of a mating between Bahumat and Tiamat, a God made flesh. The dragon has ruled over the kingdom for over 500 years, and is called all kinds of God-Emperor things. The ruling nobility are dragon-blood, half-dragons, etc. With the slaves being the Core Races, while the military is based on gnolls.Hmmm, remind me when I get home on Sunday, and I'll tab that into the map.Sooo, any more suggestions, comments, questions?</blockquote>

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