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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Polydamas" data-source="post: 24751" data-attributes="member: 388">You might want to check out the book At Winter's End by Robert Silverberg.  It deals with a colony of humans emerging from underground shelters after a great cataclysm into a new world.  Not my favorite work of his, but may prove helpful.Fifty years is a long time...for humans.  I expect there would be wanderer's from the longer-lived races setting out to track down old friends.  If one of your players chooses an elf, for example, tell him the geography of the world and the history of the nations ...then shock him with the massive changes.  With fifty years of constant magical storm I imagine there would be strange lifeforms adapted to such an environment.  Describe these odd creatures....ballon-kite creatures designed to drift on the winds, now limping across the blasted sands.  The culture of any who could remain in the storm would be quite different from those who went below....do they feel contempt for such feeble creatures?  Do they see the end of the storm and the emergence of people from underground as some sort of invasion?Entirely new religions, political cultures, and styles of magic may have arisen.  Lots of materials there.With the new storm-blasted landscape may come new crops....is there water to drink, food to eat?  You could easily add a survival in hostile environment element, if you wish.  Learning the way of the land may involve experimentation, magic, or a desperate desire for peaceful contact with locals for information.As to long term direction...I think all you need is a few vauge ideas of what the local surrounding area looks like and what may have caused the storm (the underdwellers must have some theories...even though they are probably wrong.)  See what aspects of the world interest your players and build off of that.  They might choose a quest to reclaim lost treasures, seek to learn the new ways of the world to support their home community, or who knows what else?Neat setup.</blockquote>

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