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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LostSoul" data-source="post: 5596460" data-attributes="member: 386">1. Draw a hex map2. Assign levels to geographic areas3. Make random tables4. Roll to see what's in those hexes5. Flesh it out6. Make with skill lists7. Make PCs8. PlayHere's a recent one:[sblock=Sona Newar]00.01  RESOURCE - HILLS - LEVEL 8Sona Nawar, "The strength of the ripe apple".  A level 2 settlement of 433 people.The villagers here have a small malachite mine, farm the countryside, and tend to lucious apples growing on the hills.The men in this town wear rich green & copper cloaks that cover their entire bodies and copper veils that cover their faces.  They do this because their bodies are covered in tattoos that reflect their thoughts, dreams, and actions.  The men and women rarely speak with each other; it is considered taboo.Custom: The men in Sona Newar must eat their food naked.  Doing so while clothed is grounds for imprisonment in the Baths of Cleansing - a pool of frigid mountain-fed water - for a period of not less than 6 days.Something Strange: On nights of the new moon the villagers of Sona Nawar take part in anonymous orgiastic ritual sex.  The men remain clothed, the women naked; any man who reveals himself is stricken with impotence.  This can only be removed with ritual cleansing rites that require 70 GP worth of Sanctified Incense, performed by the priestess of Sona Nawar.Trick: The lucious apples that grow on the hills cause the tattoos to form, magically, in men of the world; one prior action or thought that the man would prefer to remain secret is revealed per apple eaten.  One tattoo can be removed by application of the ritual Remove Affliction.Those who cast magic spells may instead (50% chance) gain a tattoo of the spell or ritual cast; this can be used as a spellbook, prayerbook, or ritual scroll.These apples do not function on men who were not born in this world, ie. only characters with the natural origin.  When a fey character (either sex) consumes an apple it restores a healing surge, but the character falls into a drunken stupour; no skill is considered applicable, but still may be associated.Monster: The ruler of Sona Nawar is the high priestess, known as "Deeper-and-Deeper-Water".  She has taken oaths of celibacy and secrecy and proceeds over the orgies that take place once each month.She is a cambion (level 10 skirmisher).  She has the following abilities: she conceals wings beneath her cloak, which allow her to fly clumsily at a speed of 6; she gains resist fire 10 if she bathes in boiling water each morning; she can sense when one person is lying to another (though cannot discern the truth); and she can regenerate wounds (10) as long as she abstains from sex.DDW is, like most devils, obsessed with a moral issue.  In her case, she is consumed with adultry.  She is the latest in a long line of half-devils raised to be priestesses, a succubus named Kushiel their progenitor.  Kushiel came to Sona Nawar because of the strange effects of the apples and found it suitable to her specific desires.Kushiel created the customs that allowed men to cover themselves and take part in the orgies, doing so as a test of their worth.  They failed her, of course, in no small part because of her actions.  Although Kushiel swore an oath of celibacy, she laid with a man and gave birth to her first daughter and was never heard from again.DDW continues the traditions set in motion by her fiendish progenitor.  She has five eunuchs (level 6 skirmishers, wearing bronze lamellar, wielding shields and spears; when enforcing the laws of DDW, they move with a blinding speed, and can tumble past opponents before they have the chance to respond) who tend to the baths, serve her every whim, and enforce her laws.Trap: Deeper-and-Deeper-Water lives in a bath-temple, a large roman-style bath house.  It consists of two baths, mens and womens, as well as a mosaic room with a furnace-heated pool.  Deeper-and-Deeper Water is the only one allowed into both the men's and women's areas (thanks to her oaths).  She bathes in the furnace-heated pool in the mosaic room, which contains boiling hot water.  The mosaic room is lit by skylights.Characters who enter the mosaic room feel dizzy if they do not avert their eyes from the mosaic. Characters who continue to look are stricken blind.  The mosaic depicts Kushiel and her lineage in their full devilish glory.  It also shows each one dying after giving birth.  Gate: The Feywild can be reached on nights of the full moon by passing through a waterfall, fed by mountain streams; it is this energy which fuels the apples.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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