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<blockquote data-quote="Minigiant" data-source="post: 9503894" data-attributes="member: 63508">I don't think this is the case. Many dungeons are ruined settlements or makeshift settlements. Ruined castles, conquered forts, sacked strongholds, temples to dead religions, abandoned caves, depleted mines, wizards towers and laboratories sans wizard.The lands aren't free from the taking. The people who own it are dead or too weak to defend it. The wilderness isn't settled. The tribes who live in a place cannot control it and are fighting each other over that control and thus aren't able to create a settlement long enough to hold the area.The mayor send you new off to do a quest in the woods Is the mayor of a town on the edge teetering before ruin. Because the mayor doesn't have to power to deal with the problem and the Lord above them, if they exist, aren't able or aren't willing to do with it either.I think that's the difference between a RPG setting and a Wargame setting. In a war game settings, the nobles have armies ready to conquer weaker nobles or &quot;barbarians&quot; weaker than them and claim their lands. The humans dwarfs and elves send hundreds or thousands of soldiers at a problem and at a weaker foe if there is no immediate problem. RPG settings have something occupying the time of the powerful so colonization only happens if the powerful have peace. Either way the nobles and wealthy have the sweetest gear they can buy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Minigiant, post: 9503894, member: 63508"] I don't think this is the case. Many dungeons are ruined settlements or makeshift settlements. Ruined castles, conquered forts, sacked strongholds, temples to dead religions, abandoned caves, depleted mines, wizards towers and laboratories sans wizard. The lands aren't free from the taking. The people who own it are dead or too weak to defend it. The wilderness isn't settled. The tribes who live in a place cannot control it and are fighting each other over that control and thus aren't able to create a settlement long enough to hold the area. The mayor send you new off to do a quest in the woods Is the mayor of a town on the edge teetering before ruin. Because the mayor doesn't have to power to deal with the problem and the Lord above them, if they exist, aren't able or aren't willing to do with it either. I think that's the difference between a RPG setting and a Wargame setting. In a war game settings, the nobles have armies ready to conquer weaker nobles or "barbarians" weaker than them and claim their lands. The humans dwarfs and elves send hundreds or thousands of soldiers at a problem and at a weaker foe if there is no immediate problem. RPG settings have something occupying the time of the powerful so colonization only happens if the powerful have peace. Either way the nobles and wealthy have the sweetest gear they can buy. [/QUOTE]

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