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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Galethorn" data-source="post: 1824165" data-attributes="member: 7888">The game I'm running--homebrew, tolkienesque, low-magic--is relatively low-monster. Sure, the PCs have faced giant spiders and some vengeful spirits of the dead, but that's about it. Everybody else they've fought has been human.Now, in the new setting I'm working on--something like Westeros in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, albeit about 400-500 years behind in advancement, and with a much heavier viking/saxon/frankish influence--humans are literally the only humanoid race. Now, there's three major ethnicities of humans, and six or seven cultures, but they're all within the range of variation you'd find in 9th century europe. As for monsters, the strangest common creature you'd be likely to find would be an auroch--real-world 10-foot high relative of the 'common' cow that survived until the 17th century--and they aren't terribly adversarial, if not dangerous. However, the creatures of myth, like dragons, the undead, and various sea-monsters do exist, though in small enough numbers that somebody who hadn't ever seen one could reasonably deny their existence. At most, any particular type of monster could be the major plot-focus of an adventure or campaign in an isolated, wild sort of place, but you'd literally have to bring one of them, living (or undead), with you everywhere if you wanted people to believe you actually saw/fought/were nearly eaten by them.Wow, that was one loooooong paragraph.Anyway, I don't have anything against campaigns, as a DM or player, that have a lot of monsters, unless it's a large number and large variety, in which case it gets tiresome in no time.</blockquote>

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