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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5768215" data-attributes="member: 54707">Some good observations. About communications and setting/campaign change.Some things I thought of:   Have a person or group of people responsible for throwing in Living Events every now and then. A Plaque outbreak, war or border skirmishes, a volcanic eruption, earthquake, tidal wave, forest fire, or other natural disaster.  Have events like this occur occasionally during campaigns (or between adventures) and word of them spread to others not playing in the area of effect, but others would get word of them by refugees fleeing, ships spreading the word, areas being over-run, etc.   There could be monster outbreaks.  There could be areas along the frontiers of a setting that have never been explored or mapped or accounted for and as new adventurers go in, and assuming they survive these frontier experiences, they would return with their own personal accounts of what these areas contained (which may or may not be accurate).  Another thing that occurred to me is the possibility that a natural, miraculous/supernatural, magical, or even natural event (huge earthquake) might uncover long buried ruins, or lead to the resurrection of a long forgotten race or bizarre/weird discovery. On the other hand, entirely new Races might be discovered. Or new species of animals or creatures found.   There would be occasional Civil Wars. Cities sacked and plundered. Libraries burnt. Major building and construction projects undertaken. Forced or natural immigration problems. Famines and food shortages. Sea levels rising or falling. Major fires in cities, or wildfires in the outlands. Rivers might change course, naturally or unnaturally, or inland seas start to dry up.   And of course civilized areas could occasionally be over-run by barbarians, perhaps of a type previously unknown coming in from Frontier Lands.  You could do all kinds of things in a Living Campaign that would make it seem like a real world, like things that happen or have happened to our own world.   As I said I'd call these Living Events and they would occur periodically, but unexpectedly, and would alter the setting dramatically.Most of these Living Events would be different from Living Actions which are actions brought on by human or other intelligent agents, though there would be some overlap.</blockquote>

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