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<blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 5606733" data-attributes="member: 92511">I've done pretty much all of the above.Hommlet, Saltmarsh and &quot;the&quot; Keep are all classics and can't really go wrong.I've done the home brewed town of 1,000 (or so) farming folks.I've done the port city. Always good for all of the reasons The Auld Grump outlined above. PLUS, my favorite element about port cities is &quot;the information.&quot; You have people (and things!) coming in from all over the known world...or at least the known world that this city/kingdom has trading agreements with...you can and will hear tales from all ports of call...tales of adventure and far off treasures and lands...its brilliant as a jump off point to get the party to other areas of the world...if that's what you want.Or the entirely &quot;in city bounds&quot; thing you propose could work very well also. There really could be no end of plots for the party to pursue within the city...but you must be ready to acknowledge/accept when the party says &quot;we wanna go somewhere else&quot;...it just happens.Bottomline for the &quot;starting point&quot; of a new group/game...what do the players want? What do you want? Where doth the twain meet? If everyon'es good with staying &quot;in town&quot; their whole career, then great. Or staying within, like a day or two's ride of the city (some plots/leads might have elements that take them outside the walls, afterall).--SD</blockquote>

[QUOTE="steeldragons, post: 5606733, member: 92511"] I've done pretty much all of the above. Hommlet, Saltmarsh and "the" Keep are all classics and can't really go wrong. I've done the home brewed town of 1,000 (or so) farming folks. I've done the port city. Always good for all of the reasons The Auld Grump outlined above. PLUS, my favorite element about port cities is "the information." You have people (and things!) coming in from all over the known world...or at least the known world that this city/kingdom has trading agreements with...you can and will hear tales from all ports of call...tales of adventure and far off treasures and lands...its brilliant as a jump off point to get the party to other areas of the world...if that's what you want. Or the entirely "in city bounds" thing you propose could work very well also. There really could be no end of plots for the party to pursue within the city...but you must be ready to acknowledge/accept when the party says "we wanna go somewhere else"...it just happens. Bottomline for the "starting point" of a new group/game...what do the players want? What do you want? Where doth the twain meet? If everyon'es good with staying "in town" their whole career, then great. Or staying within, like a day or two's ride of the city (some plots/leads might have elements that take them outside the walls, afterall). --SD [/QUOTE]

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