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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenjib" data-source="post: 173778" data-attributes="member: 530">> 3. What is the best loaction to start my game in? When you think geography, think Montana.If you are looking for similarities to Montana I think there are a couple of good options.1.  Ek'Gakel:  Here you have a situation where settlers have pushed the prior inhabitants of the land into more marginalized areas and tensions are growing.  I think you could have some elements in this similar to the old west maybe a bit after the homestead act with cattle ranchers and the whole bit.  You've even got migrating bison herds.  This area seems modelled after parts of the U.S. like Montana.  The geography is wide open, lot's of range and the people have a "frontier roughness and independence."2.  Torakk:  Tribe based lifestyles and lots of open plain.  A campaign here would be more like a Montana before many white settlers arrived.Those may not necessarily seem like traditional fantasy themes but it is there if you look around the area.  Torakk, for example, borders Slen and so you get the whole evil theocracy angle, which is classic fantasy and gives you a perfect enemy for the players and set of plot hooks (kidnappings, ritual sacrifice, daring rescues, etc.).  Ek'Gakel is also tied into the politics of the Young Kingdoms opposed to the hobgoblins of Norga-Krangel, so you could possibly work up a great war against the invading humanoids campaign if that's what you are looking at.  It also has interesting swamps and forests nearby.Notice that these two regions are geographically suited in a similar location to Montana as well - both kind of a northerly latitude and both on the east side of a major mountain range.  That's why the geography (which also drives cultural tendencies) ends up being similar.</blockquote>

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