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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 6010969" data-attributes="member: 2205">In kinda vague terms.  Much of it is somewhat esoteric too.  It occurred to me that since I play at fairly low level (E6), wild animals are actually extremely dangerous to a party of adventurers in the wilderness, and the Pleistocene fauna of North America would have been keenly so; Columbian mammoths, atrox lions, sabertooths, dire wolves, short-faced bears, giant ground sloths, long-horned bison the size of rhinos, giant camels, etc.  I fudge it a little and add some terror birds and giant diurnal bats a la King Kong, and I almost don't need monsters at all, except as a special treat.Add to that a number of areas that are specifically inspired by places I love in North America--the Rockies, the Smokies, the Colorado Plateau, the Chihuahuan desert and the Chisos mountains, etc., and places that don't exist anymore like Lakes Bonneville, Lahontan, Agassiz, etc. and I feel like I've got a real Pleistocene meets Wild West vibe for much of my setting... even though I don't actually borrow any actual geography directly.Casual references to the people using Scott's horses or stilt-legged llamas for caravan beasts of burden are a little detail that probably nobody besides me even notices, though.</blockquote>