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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kaodi" data-source="post: 5661808" data-attributes="member: 1231">The idea is that the PCs are the primary scouting party for an expedition. They land in a more or less friendly looking place, and while the go off exploring the remainder of the expedition builds up the first settlement. At some point, the settlement would be attacked by orcs, who are pretty much the only inhabitants of the initial island, and the leaders of the expedition would be dragged off and killed, at which point the PCs transition into a Kingmaker type game, with the difference at the start being that they inherit a settlement that has grown for a few months already. Probably this means there are going to be a ton of resources, meaning a booming economy, and most of that money is probably going to go back into expanding their burgeoning little colony. A lot of the conflict in such a campaign would be against terrifying beasts of epic proportions. Though once they make it to the mainland, it will become clear that this continent does in fact have its own inhabitants, though most of them may not build settlements much larger than a village. Orcs, lizardfolk, grippli, boggards, degenerate serpentfolk... It could be an interest sub-plot perhaps to incorporate the relation between these orcs and the half-orcs of the civilized lands, who would be a true breeding race much like half-elves in Eberron's Khorvaire. Also, I was thinking that if I really wanted to emphasize the cyclopean scale of this new worlds fauna (and probably flora too), that it might be interesting to make the initial expedition one made up entirely of halflings, many of whom might have a similar station before to those in Cheliax.The challenge rating would probably be something to keep an eye on, especially if none of the PCs specialize in AC, because things like the CR 15 Colossal Black Scorpion could possibly waste TPK unpreppared 20th level parties if they unlucky. Throwing lower level challenges would nicely stretch out the levels though...</blockquote>

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