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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TrainedMunkee" data-source="post: 4122572" data-attributes="member: 42904">My POLI have already started designing my setting for 4e. I always try to have a picture as my inspiration for design. One of the methods for writing novels is to get a picture of someone you want to use as an inspiration for your protagonist. When I design a setting, I use a landscape for inspiration. I have a poster on my wall done by Rodney Mathews, it is from the nineties. There is a keep on the top of a tall spire. The road to the keep spirals up the spire. I figure that a road like that would be very easy to defend. I envision three gates. One at the foot of the spire, one near the top and one on the wall of the keep. Such a set up could be easily defended by a few individuals. In settings like this nobody had guard as a profession. Everyone had training in the use of weapons and everyone carried weapons. The village folks had to always be on alert and had to always keep a watch. The key to a villages survival is numbers. In agricultural societies large families are a key to survival. A village would have to be in a spot that was was easily defended, had a large amount of harvestable crops, and possibly something unique for trade. I'm using the keep as my Keep on the Borderlands as a tribute to Gygax. I've already designed the village my group of PCs will be from and the whole story arc from lv. 1 to 20. I have yet to decide if I want to go beyond 20th. I'm just waiting until June.</blockquote>

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