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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hamishspence" data-source="post: 4144997" data-attributes="member: 41555">Kitchen sink settingA lot of fiction mixes ideas, Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar series has the very PoL-like Pelagiris Forest, full of scary monsters, with little settlements of Tayledras who, bit by bit, fix the damage, destroy the monsters, etc. It takes a very long time though. You can have mixed world, with PoL type areas and more successful ones, thats what Heroes are for, to turn PoL areas into more settled ones, which eventually become complacent and fall again. Constant flux. it does say the last big empire fell a mere 100 years before. the setting is a "Dark age" Just cos it's PoL now doesn't mean it was always like that, or, that it will stay like that, or, that every part of the world is like that. For 3rd ed era Faerun, you could say the Dales and the Sword coast, and the Savage Frontier, etc, are classic PoL areas, but Mulhorand is more settled with lower proport ions of monsters. It all depends how dark you want the dark areas. Baldur's Gate Game, for example, was full of monsters, and only in towns did they become very rare, and even then, there were infiltrators, and hazardous sewers, and whatnot.When reading World and Monsters, I thought, isn't D&D already somewhat PoL-ish? Most of the novels seem to have that flavour.</blockquote>