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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 3959377" data-attributes="member: 1210">Points of light really does a good job of fitting my preferred style of play. <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=":)" />One of the reasons I think I have never much cared for Forgotten Realms is the fact that it feels very "big city" to me, in other words, even if you aren't in a city, the big city is what I sort of feel is the standard location for FR. I prefer settings with more of a "border town on the edge of the wilderness" feeling to them. PoL makes it so that the border town under threat by monsters and the wild is actually pretty much the standard, vs. the safe town or city that we've all come to expect over the years. It's interesting- I've been sort of moving my campaign towards both a heavy fey influence, more sinister than most 3e fey would imply, and a points of light style- I have several islands and continents that are sparsely populated after being overrun by monsters, and only recently have they been repopulated. In the island that has been repopulated for a longer period, the population has rebounded to the point where there are about three or four big cities (with tens of thousands of people) and several more in the high thousands. Plus a lot of small towns and such with anywhere from four to 1000 people in them, usually averaging around 100. Few roads in good repair- the island had them before the tarrasques depopulated it, but that was a lot of destruction ago. The big continent has only had people back on it (or vegetation, for that matter) for about thirty years now (? maybe less by a half dozen or so). So, in this case, even the big cities only have a few thousand people in them, there are only three of those on the entire continent, and there are not very many small communities yet either. Actually, one of those big cities has 20,000 people, but that's largely the military presence there. The total population of the continent is somewhere around 215,000,PoL being core in 4e sounds really cool to me.</blockquote>

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