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Message: <blockquote data-quote="monboesen" data-source="post: 2979476" data-attributes="member: 4647">Only if there are enough survivors that the blacksmith has someone to teach his craft too. And if he has acces to a smithy with tools. And he has the time to do so instead of hunting, farming, fleeing and so on. If most of the surface life was wiped out all these things are by no means sure.It is by no means sure that all crafts would survive. It might be fun to choose some that just ceised to exist. But it might also be to much of a hassle to figure out what the missing crafts implications on the game world are.Given the nature of humans this is definately what would happen. When civilisation breaks down the stronger (in the sense of physical might) will dominate and take advantage of the weaker. Humanistic and altruistic principles will go down the drain quicly when the <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> hits the fan. IMO this would be a dark and mean world.There could be a classic struggle between a weaker but more civilised/organised group of people (a small city etc.) struggling vs. more regressed/primitive/savage group(s).Given those options, a trading post. That is going to be the most diverse place in both occupants (and player race/class options), trades and possible adventures.Depends on whether they existed prior to the ELE or not. That said I think the advantage of not needing food/water in a more primitive campaign is stronger than in a standard campaign. And who has the knowledge to repair them.Another note of interest. If most surface life was exterminated as you wrote in the initial post many species would be gone. That goes for animals, magical beasts, and so on. The nature of evolution dictates (and historical evidence shows) that after such extinction events evolution relatively rapid produces new species to take advantage of ecological niches that are now competitor free. For instance if the world used to have lions, but lions went extinct. Then some other creature will adapt and utilise that ecological niche (large grass eating animals). So maybe   now 10 ft. long 500 pounds heavy Rodents stalk and hunt antilopes or maybe one species of antilope has become a voracious meat eating hunter with razor sharp 4 ft. long horns used to kill prey. Off course evolution don't really work that fast in real life, but hey you got the magical equivalent of a nuclear disaster so who knows how that affects evolutional speed.You have the option of going totally crazy with ridiculous and terrifying new monsters/animals. And wont that be fun <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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