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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ripzerai" data-source="post: 3680402" data-attributes="member: 38324">I guess that's a matter of personal opinion. It just seems silly to me to have all these heroes of legends go to live in the same place. Even Tanelorn wasn't like that - most of its citizens were perfectly ordinary. The point of Tanelorn was that it was a place of respite from the endless war between Law and Chaos, so Elric, Rakhir, John Daker, and other aspects of the Champion Eternal found it soothing. But they rarely stayed long, and they hardly ever met each other in the same aspect of the city. John Daker's version of Tanelorn turned out to be our Earth's London.The Argonauts traveled together, but after the quest (or during the quest) they went their separate ways. To have Heracles, Jason, Orpheus, Atalanta, Castor and Pollux and the others all go live in the same apartment complex afterwards would seem odd. They each had their own myths to complete, their own stories to finish.I don't find the idea appealing at all, but your mileage must vary. Really? It sounds like you're saying that no fantasy RPG city has any chance of being different or unique unless it's stocked with epic heroes out the wazoo. That can't be what you meant; but I can't figure out how to read that sentence in any other way. Of course it's possible to make a city different or unique without making 20+ characters the norm - if you can't make a city built on floating islands in a twilight demiplane by an enigmatic race of planar merchants unique, there's something wrong. I'm not sure what you must have really meant to say. The best I can come up with is, "it kills any chance of making Union unique in the exact way I want it to be unique," but that would be a pretty weak criticism. It'd be exactly like saying that because Union isn't entirely populated by sentient badgers, that would kill any chance of making it a city entirely populated by sentient badgers. It'd be just like every other fantasy RPG city, in the sense that no other fantasy RPG city, to my knowledge, is populated entirely by sentient badgers either. It's a true statement, but not a very persuasive argument. Most cities find other ways to be different.</blockquote>

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