I was going to post this in the Atlas and Almanac thread, then decided it really belonged here.
I was thinking that a couple of locations in the Treasure of Tierra Padre adventure should eventually wind up with entries in the Atlas and Almanac thread. Specifically, the arched stone bridge over the River Roars southeast of Orussus, with the faded plinth and clearing nearby, and the ruins of the old mill upstream. Surely the bridge should qualify for a general entry, since it's been there a long time, and should probably see many an adventurer in days to come. The setting is so picturesque that it would be a shame to lose the continuity from adventure to adventure, with an arched stone bridge across a gorge in one adventure and a series of wooden planks between mud flats in another.
That prompted me to thinking...what about adventure locations? Anyone could just go to the adventure description where they are used for most of them, and many of them will only be used once. Seems hardly worth the trouble for the DMs to have to post a writeup in the Atlas and Almanac thread for them. But locations that are likely to appear over and over are probably worth writing up.
That takes me back to the bridge over the Roars. There's a nearby clearing that any party who stops to rest at that spot will easily find, so that probably deserves a line in the almanac. But there is a path leading off the main road into the woods that is not so easily found, and perhaps not common knowledge. Should that get a mention as well? Just something to think about.
There is also the ruins of the old mill that served for one encounter location, and may do so again before Tierra Padre is finished. I'm thinking that even if the current party cleans it out "once and for all", it still deserves a write-up, since it's a persistant part of LEW. (At least until some fool gets the notion to tear what's left of it down.) Now, that hasn't been common knowledge for years, since it doesn't even appear on modern maps and the party had to discover it. But knowledge of it's existance is bound to spread among adventurers, especially since it provides a relatively easy crossing of the Roars in a place where few such crossings exist.
And that leads to the general question of just how much of each adventure should rightly be posted in a general atlas and almanac thread. I'm not sure that's a burning question that needs to be answered this minute, but I am sure that question causes less clutter here than in the middle of that thread.
Just something to think about.
I was thinking that a couple of locations in the Treasure of Tierra Padre adventure should eventually wind up with entries in the Atlas and Almanac thread. Specifically, the arched stone bridge over the River Roars southeast of Orussus, with the faded plinth and clearing nearby, and the ruins of the old mill upstream. Surely the bridge should qualify for a general entry, since it's been there a long time, and should probably see many an adventurer in days to come. The setting is so picturesque that it would be a shame to lose the continuity from adventure to adventure, with an arched stone bridge across a gorge in one adventure and a series of wooden planks between mud flats in another.
That prompted me to thinking...what about adventure locations? Anyone could just go to the adventure description where they are used for most of them, and many of them will only be used once. Seems hardly worth the trouble for the DMs to have to post a writeup in the Atlas and Almanac thread for them. But locations that are likely to appear over and over are probably worth writing up.
That takes me back to the bridge over the Roars. There's a nearby clearing that any party who stops to rest at that spot will easily find, so that probably deserves a line in the almanac. But there is a path leading off the main road into the woods that is not so easily found, and perhaps not common knowledge. Should that get a mention as well? Just something to think about.
There is also the ruins of the old mill that served for one encounter location, and may do so again before Tierra Padre is finished. I'm thinking that even if the current party cleans it out "once and for all", it still deserves a write-up, since it's a persistant part of LEW. (At least until some fool gets the notion to tear what's left of it down.) Now, that hasn't been common knowledge for years, since it doesn't even appear on modern maps and the party had to discover it. But knowledge of it's existance is bound to spread among adventurers, especially since it provides a relatively easy crossing of the Roars in a place where few such crossings exist.
And that leads to the general question of just how much of each adventure should rightly be posted in a general atlas and almanac thread. I'm not sure that's a burning question that needs to be answered this minute, but I am sure that question causes less clutter here than in the middle of that thread.
Just something to think about.
