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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Inchoroi" data-source="post: 6514408" data-attributes="member: 6752135">Its a shame I can only give XP for this post once.Hadn't gotten as far as islands, yet, but you raise several good points, especially about Malaysia and Indonesia; I was wondering how I would go about drawing a map for this sort of thing with enough islands to actually be useful, and taking that area of the world would be a good starting point. The "Empire", I think, is there for two reasons; 1. Conversion to their religion, and 2. said resources. The resources, though, I am unsure of at the moment, but I'm wondering if I can't take a page from Glen Cook's novels, and have them search for mithril (magic silver), which has only been found in limited quantities within the Empire, and recently (a couple hundred years ago) mithril was discovered when these islands were 'discovered' from the indigenous peoples. This also lets me clone a sort of "El Dorado" feel, as another quest/adventure in the sandbox, letting them find the map at one point or another, preferably randomly (my table and I are big fans of randomness in the sense that most of the world is apparently random, even though it really isn't). Honestly, the idea of a sandbox came from working on one of my player's characters, a Barbarian, and I realized that with his HP, it would be possible--unlikely, but possible--for him to survive being hit head on by meteor swarm head on. Expanding on the Empires a bit, having more than one is probably going to be a really good idea, too; spain and england are kind of smushed together at this point, but a france-clone would work. Sorry to say, my family is from the Netherlands, but I'm not 100% sure of its history during that era, save that they indulged in the slave trade (and nothing at all about Portugal during that time in history). Having each empire or 'advanced' civilization competing over the same resources, continually exploring the islands and larger lands in the area for mithril. I also, capitalizing on the whole religion-stone-the-witch thing, wanted to include magic schools, in the sense of a bunch of magic using peoples got together for mutual protection from the churchs, priests, and paladins that wanted to kill them all (magic is solely the province of God and his priests, etc, etc). The Schools want mithril as well, obviously, and so have missions there, recruiting magic users from various locations among the islands; they also would be the main source of magic items for most of the populace, since, you know, Magic Is Bad according to this guy's religion. This idea led to the appropriation of another thread's idea, that of magic item industrial espionage (which I can't seem to locate now), as another fun way to make money</blockquote>

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