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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 135379" data-attributes="member: 1125">Try the opposite of this - the party isn't a group of adventurers passing through to the next dungeon. The party is the Hommlet village militia suddenly faced with nefarious acts in their own hometown!The Discworld 'City-Watch' series pretty much captures this style well.Another variation is to give the PCs a fortress (and perhaps a ttile - Marquis) and then have the peasants start knocking on the door begging for protection from the marauding orcs even while the king is demanding his tax be collected and a dragon has been sited in the mountains to the north!My alternative (ie the one I use imc) is to have the PCs as leaders of a group of settlers moving into new wilderness. They have to explore, build a village, fight wild monsters,  make sure the harvest comes in, ensure the settlement is protected and the population growing, and decide whether the pig Sporky belongs to Farmer Piper or Farmer Brown.Gnomes as elementals was an idea put forward by Paracelcius (the Alchemist) - gnomes were far more like brownies and other small barnyard spiritsThe Great Sea Ork is actually an old English sea monster (probably a Collusal Abberation<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=":)" />)Mr Gygax also claims that Orc is a word meaning Ogre NB Tolkien says that Orc is the Hobbitish word for Hobgoblin - so who knows...</blockquote>

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