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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Allegro" data-source="post: 5681218" data-attributes="member: 38814">It is a good idea but I've failed to provide enough back story.  The war was between a despotic half-demon prince’s kingdom and a loose coalition of the usual suspects of elves, dwarves, humans, halflings, and gnomes.  The war itself took place 1000 odd years ago and a truce was brokered between the two groups.  The time before the war is known as a heroic age were great magics and amazing feats took place.  The truce was enforced magically enforced with magical barriers.  Occasionally, the barrier would weaken in spots and some traffic would pass through the barriers but on the whole the entire area was untouched by civilization.  The area chosen as the DMZ was chosen because both sides disputed ownership of the areas.  Plus parts of the DMZ areas had become unstable to magic.  Both sides evacuated the areas before the walls became active.  The demon prince had an unnaturally long life and a group of plucky adventures recently killed him.  On his death the barriers went down and the demon prince’s kingdom started fighting civil wars as individual lords vied for control.  The land between the two sides is unsettled with exotic flora, fauna, and monsters.  The area is littered with the remains of shattered abandoned ruins.  A land rush has started as the local nobility has opened the former DMZ up for exploration.  I’ve been my typically over ambitious self creating this back story with a veritable continent to explore.  To this point, I’ve been creating the points of light for the PCs to discover.  For example, I have a swamp with an abandoned partially sunk castle.  I’ve populated the castle with zombies and wights but I’m not sure what to put in the swamp.  I’m looking for resources to figure out what to put in mountains, hills, forests, plains, deserts, etc.</blockquote>

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