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Message: <blockquote data-quote="small pumpkin man" data-source="post: 4145586" data-attributes="member: 57910">For "hardcore" PoL, one would assume most decent sized villages have at least a motte and baily(or cultural equivelent), and adults of the appropriate gender would be trained (if very poorly) for combat.Smaller places would generally only get by if nobody really knew they were there, or there was just an old poor hag, who probably doesn't have anything anyone wants (And intelligent monsters stay away from in case she's a Hag anyway). Or they could be "paying off" the evil, like the villagers at the start of Seven Samurai, or that warren in Watership Down. Or they could be in a geologically secure place.Thing is, I look at this like Jack of Tales' other thread about Simulationism and PoL, about how "villages all need to be near a river and need bunch of other stuff", and I just feel like saying "pick up a history book sometime". Yes there are horrible things out there, but there's the NPCs do actually have acces to some magic, and the occasional hero too, I don't see it as being fundimentally dissimilar to the Dark ages, or any time/area period known as the "Warring states" period.But it should be remembered that this isn't the only type of PoL there is, it could be like Eberron where you've got Powerful Citystates, but lots of ruins and battlefields other places between them where nobody goes because it's incredibly dangerous, or like Midnight, where you often play the "monsters from the forest or the mountains" to the Orc's Empire, it could be like Darksun where the enviroment plays a large part of the "PoLness", it could be like Conan, where there it's not necessarily any real civilization at all for large parts of the world, but there aren't actually that many monsters around. (although there's quite a few), What PoL means is that there is a good reason for opponents to be accessable, and conversly that there isn't a force you can reasonably turn to when problems come up (expect from the PCs), that can mean a lot of different things.</blockquote>

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