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<blockquote data-quote="Geek-Zilla" data-source="post: 4134771" data-attributes="member: 60818">Thanks for the responses...and good ideas!&nbsp; Points of Light and Sources of Shadows FTW.&nbsp; I agree that a &quot;database&quot; style would probably be the best format.&nbsp; It would allow a DM to have resources available, but still be able to tailor make a campaign world that suits his &quot;vision&quot;.&nbsp; Personally, the cannon and cosmology that has been provided in R&amp;C and W&amp;M is pretty neat.&nbsp; So I think those places and locals are a must have in a PoL setting...I guest they could be referred to as the &quot;commons&quot;.&nbsp; The old Thieves' World series worked liked this, with various contributing authors using other author's characters and locations.&nbsp; The point being, there would have to be some HARD rules about the world...but those HARD rules are intentionally vague.&nbsp; An example of course would be Arkhosia, which in W&amp;M says &quot;The dragonborn race once forged the powerful empire of Arkhosia in arid lands.&quot;&nbsp; I interrupt that as a geographic area somewhat like the Grand Canyon or the Bad Lands in the Dakotas, someone might interrupt it differently.I've been playing with the idea of developing a port city based upon the history of&nbsp; Lygos/Byzantium/Nova Roma/Constantinopol/Istanbul.&nbsp; An ancient city that has been ruled by various empires throughout history, but currently a free city state since the fall of Nerath.&nbsp; The architecture of the city is a mix a different cultures that have built upon the previous empires that have ruled it...so you would see a dwarven engineered style bridge, next to a tower of Bael Turath design, next to an inn of Nerathian sytle....I think you get the point.&nbsp; Oh....and there has to be a waterfall, like Niagra Falls...because this city is at a strategic geographic location for trade, hence &quot;the change of hands&quot; throughout history.If there is interest in this, I think the most prudent first step would be a consolidation &quot;offical&quot; cannon.&nbsp; This of course could be stored on a web site in either a wiki or blog style format.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Geek-Zilla, post: 4134771, member: 60818"] Thanks for the responses...and good ideas! Points of Light and Sources of Shadows FTW. I agree that a "database" style would probably be the best format. It would allow a DM to have resources available, but still be able to tailor make a campaign world that suits his "vision". Personally, the cannon and cosmology that has been provided in R&C and W&M is pretty neat. So I think those places and locals are a must have in a PoL setting...I guest they could be referred to as the "commons". The old Thieves' World series worked liked this, with various contributing authors using other author's characters and locations. The point being, there would have to be some HARD rules about the world...but those HARD rules are intentionally vague. An example of course would be Arkhosia, which in W&M says "The dragonborn race once forged the powerful empire of Arkhosia in arid lands." I interrupt that as a geographic area somewhat like the Grand Canyon or the Bad Lands in the Dakotas, someone might interrupt it differently. I've been playing with the idea of developing a port city based upon the history of Lygos/Byzantium/Nova Roma/Constantinopol/Istanbul. An ancient city that has been ruled by various empires throughout history, but currently a free city state since the fall of Nerath. The architecture of the city is a mix a different cultures that have built upon the previous empires that have ruled it...so you would see a dwarven engineered style bridge, next to a tower of Bael Turath design, next to an inn of Nerathian sytle....I think you get the point. Oh....and there has to be a waterfall, like Niagra Falls...because this city is at a strategic geographic location for trade, hence "the change of hands" throughout history. If there is interest in this, I think the most prudent first step would be a consolidation "offical" cannon. This of course could be stored on a web site in either a wiki or blog style format. [/QUOTE]

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