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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DrNilesCrane" data-source="post: 2547742" data-attributes="member: 7652">I definitely won't be using anything silly - wouldn't fit the tone of the campaign at all - but even a silly idea might be adaptable.  For example, with a salt water sea, the commodity of fresh water could be valuable in certain areas / situations.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Really what I'm looking are one or two sentence summaries of civilizations & cultures.  The island / naval aspect could be very secondary or ignored for the purposes of this brainstorming, if that makes it easier, and I want to avoid any obvious cliches (my players are well read and it would push the suspension of disbelief too much).For example, the metal poor island is a nifty idea as is the culture (war god, priests, etc.) and more in line with what I'm looking for.  (I'm already using a lot of the obvious sources - Isle of Dread, for instance - but definitely want to have an abundence of ideas as I'm expecting the party will learn or hear about dozens of places.  I want to give them plenty of choices and really let them take the lead in deciding where to go).Thanks again and keep the ideas coming!</blockquote>