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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 412159" data-attributes="member: 158">My campaigns use monsters and monster races all the time. However, I try to use them in a logical fashion, without throwing together all sorts of monsters in a location. If goblins and hobgoblins dominate a certain territory, then you probably won't find Tasloi living a mile down the road, and you won't find a tribe of gnolls living nearby either. In fact, the only variety you will find is a few solitary creatures that are perhaps in hiding, or have been captured or walled off by the dominant inhabitants, who control their environment best they can to suit their living requirements.Concepts like Keep on the Borderlands I dislike in most modules, and use it sparingly. I used this module about 4 years ago in the start of a new campaign. In KOTB, I rationalized the monsters' living arrangements by stating that the Hobgoblin, Gnoll, and Kobold Chieftains had come together in an alliance in the wilderness, to form a growing army to take down the neighboring humanoid lands. I had a couple of scouts crawl beaten and bloodied into the fort outpost, telling stories of a growing humanoid encampment in the deep forest, and the PC's were just itching to get out there and disrupt them.Some people like to play their D&D like Silence of the Lambs, or Insomnia. Our group prefers its D&D like Demolition Man or Collateral Damage, with the occasional forays into gray morality added in.</blockquote>

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