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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SHARK" data-source="post: 132921" data-attributes="member: 1131">Greetings!In thinking about different themes in the campaign, I just finished detailing a fanatastic fortress that is situated in the Nethande Highlands. The Nethande Highlands is located in the Barranu Penensula. The Barranu Penensula is the home of a vast rain-forest, and is rich in emerald-mines, gold, as well as large populations of wondrous creatures. There are several vast herds of elephants that live on the Tegarnu Plain just south of the Barranu Penensula. High up in the enshrouded forest, packs of fierce white baboons thrive. The great Black Python, a huge type of snake that is black, with swirls of gold, lurk in the dark floor of the forest. There are Dire Apes that live up in the highlands, and flocks of giant Axe Beaks that hunt throughout the forest. Through the mist-enshrouded forest, there looms a huge fortress. This vast fortress is the center of a wicked and depraved cult which worships the Dark Gods. This cult is organized by a cohort of 18 priestesses, who have gained great political power over some of the local tribes, and city-states alike. This ancient fortress-temple is incredibly wealthy, and rumours persist that the priestesses have a company of demons that they breed half-fiends from, as well continue to perfect their knowledge in wickedness and blasphemous rites.Throughout this environment are fabulous amounts of wealth; enormous, ancient monsters; voluptuous and beautiful women, who are also often terrifyingly dangerous as they are seductive; Huge, ancient fortresses, strange, evil cults, and potentially great fame and glory for the group that can defeat the dark cult.Merely as an example, Robert E. Howard throughout his Conan series, provides a very different epic environment. This epic environment stands in contrast to what is typical in D&D in the current day. I happen to believe that a Conanesque environment can be very dynamic, and offers far more scope than the stereotypical "hack & slash" model.Certainly, there are common elements, but it is important that those common elements can be depicted, and utilized differently from that of the stereo-type. What do you think? Have you integrated Conanesque elements into your campaign?I have in many areas of my campaign a Conanesque flavour. In some other areas, there is a more medieval flavour. Still, there is something I think quite compelling about a campaign that has a Conanesque flavour.<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=":)" />Semper Fidelis,SHARK</blockquote>

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