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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5696352" data-attributes="member: 22779">Perhaps it would be better to give an example where I have seen it done well.  I'm a big fan of Scarred Lands.  In SL, in pretty much all the setting books, the fantastic makes large changes in how each place works.For example, in Mithril, City of the Golem, you have a 60 foot Mithril Golem, created by the gods to battle the titans, sitting in the middle of the city.  At one point, one of the fingers fell off.  The locals then started using the mithril to make weapons and armor to defend themselves against their neighbours.  Off shore, you have a spreading blood stain in the ocean of the dead titan Kadum who is chained to the bottom of the ocean.  The blood mutates fish and whatnot and makes it possible that anyone who eats the mutated sea life might become mutated as well.  Makes for an interesting challenge to the city to feed itself.On the other side of the continent, you have Hollowfaust, City of Necromancers where, well, it's not a big shock, the local rulers animate cadavers to do all sorts of taskings.To the south, we have Shelzar, City of Sin, where halflings, the whipping boys of Scarred Lands, eke out a living as diminuative prostitutes nicknamed "whorelings".Those are just a few examples.  There are lots more.</blockquote>