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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 3685618" data-attributes="member: 5868">So, to start with, I think many of the resources need to be generic to allow for easy insertion of Dungeon adventures.  So I plan to use all of the core rules elements as the baseline.1.  Pantheon: the core pantheon from the PHB.2.  Races:  Core races initially, each with a "home region":  a.  Humans: Found everywhere, though most human lands lie between the Sundering Channel and the Atraesian Depths.  Barbaric tribes are also found in the jungles of the Rainlands, the northern Foresworn Wastes, and in the Blacksand Desert.  The Broken Straits are travelled by pirate bands (Tidewash = Scuttlecove?) which makes trade between east and west treacherous.  b.  Dwarves: Found north of the sea of Isprea, but the primary home of the dwarves is the Looming Peaks.  Kernbridge serves as the primary port trading for dwarven ores and finished worked goods; the dwarven fortress of Tor'Algar guards their lands from the giants and orcs that have overrun most of the northeastern portion of the continent.  c.  Elves:  There are elven settlements in most of the major temperate forests, but the Elven capital lies in the Feywood.  Subricon is a mostly human, elven, and half-elven city founded to initiate magic trade with the elves.  Most elves are high elves; grey elves are only seen in the feywood; wild elves are only found deep in the Rainlands.  d.  Half-elves: Found everywhere humans and elves mingle; most common in human cities and Subricon.  Half elves are quite commonly ship captains or merchants, which explains their common appearance across the realm.  e.  Halflings:  Most halflings hail from farming communities in the plains south of the Blacksteel Peaks on the Inner Sea, where they live a bucolic life in a land that provides an ideal farming climate.  Most halflings encountered in other parts of the world are adventurers, though occasional halfling communities form where communities of other races benefiot from their advanced farming and animal husbandry techniques (such as the small halfling commmunity found in the mixed race town of Haleford).  f.  Gnomes:  Gnomes lead insular lives -- the entire known Gnome kingdom is confined to the Windswept Isle, which is seldom visited by other races except for half-elven trading galleys.  Gnomes are well known to all races, however, as they along with half-elves seem to be most of the wandering minstrels and storytellers in the realms.  Oral histories of the various kingdoms are knit together by the loose community of gnomes who wander from thorp to thorp spreading and collecting news of various events.  g.  Half-orcs.  The rarest of the races, they are treated with fear and suspicion in most civilized realms.  The pirate community of Wavewatcher's bay is mostly half-orcs, as it was once a human trading community conquered by the orcs of the north.  Half-orc brigands are among the most feared pirate captains in the realms, and the tales of legendary captains Gnargh One-Ear or Kurrugh the Black are used as cautionary tales even in land-locked communities.Next time: Monstrous races.</blockquote>

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