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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daztur" data-source="post: 6049854" data-attributes="member: 55680">The "Southern Desert" is a placeholder of a name, if you can come up with a more creative one I'll edit it in. I've been thinking about the land area of the map and it does seem a bit small. With six mile hexes the whole area is the UK minus Scotland. If the hexes were eight miles it get nearly doubled to just short of Italy.With ten mile hexes it gets nearly tripled to a bit bigger than Sweden.With twelve mile hexes it gets precisely quadrupled and is bigger than Afghanistan.With 24 mile hexes we get Argentina. On the one hand the map does feel bigger than England, Wales and Northern Ireland with a lot of different polities, cultures and climates but on the other hand magic can explain all of that and monsters make it harder to travel (just like mountains) making it easy to stick a lot of climates and peoples in one small area.Thoughts?One simple hex for now...The Forest of Falling BearsHex 49.09<img src="http://wallabydown.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/11.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />The drop bears that can be found throughout the jungles beyond the World's Edge are especially common in this stretch of forest. Although quite small and not especially fearsome looking, they can be a real hazard as they fall on their victims from great heights, which often results in broken backs or crushed limbs.Pregnant drop bears or those with litters of cubs watch intently for the various great beasts of these steaming jungles. These beasts are too large for the drop bears to kill outright so they instead "ride" them, digging in their long claws and goading them on with injections of pain-inducing poison from the spurs on their hind feet. These pain-maddened beasts can be quite dangerous to travelers as they completely ignore all threats except for the agony of the drop bears on their backs.Finally, after the passage of days in some cases, the drop bear's ride collapses dead with exhaustion and the mother descends and allows its young to feed. They can do so for quite a long time as drop bear poison preserves meat and greatly delays its corruption. As a result of this, drop bear poison is highly sought after as an ingredient for cure disease potions.As a result of the drop bears' novel migration behavior they can end up just about anywhere that the beasts they fall upon can carry them.Hooks:-Who's in the market for drop bear poison?-What sort of animals do drop bears most commonly drop on?-Is there any way to keep a drop bear from attacking? Pickelhauben?</blockquote>

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