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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rounser" data-source="post: 2960299" data-attributes="member: 1106">Sure.  It's the setting equivalent of a dungeon (Thunder Rift even has 1/2 mile high cliff "walls").  The trade off is that because the pond is small, there's a lot of freedom to do what you like within that small scope, as opposed to a big pond with limitations on choice imposed by necessity.If you put Thunder Rift on a pocket plane with no exits, why not?  That is the setting, full stop.  By locking the players into that setting, you're arguably no more railroading than running the entire campaign in the Forgotten Realms (with no trips to the planes, Realmspace, or other worlds like Krynn).  If causing plane shift spells and items to fail in this setting is necessary to enforce this, then so be it - the accusation of railroading the RAW can well be made on that basis, but arguably it can be justified as a planar trait.That decided, the only question to answer is "what if the PCs go into the mountains and continue beyond the edge of the map"...my answer is borrowed from Malatra (another microsetting, for the now defunct Living Jungle RPGA campaign), where incredibly powerful antipathy spell beacons are in effect on the borders of the map a few miles beyond the cliffs of the rift, put there by an unknown power.  If the PCs somehow get past that, they find that the mountains "wrap around", and they appear on the other side of the map.  These are just quirks of the pocket plane.There's only one city, two towns, one keep and a dwarvenhome as the population centres....further human, halfling, humanoid, dwarven and elven settlements are implied, but are probably no more than villages or hamlets because they're not even marked on the map.  You could detail these places using just published sources, let alone your own work, and thus, the PCs can effectively go anywhere within the setting.</blockquote>

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