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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Buttercup" data-source="post: 663783" data-attributes="member: 990">Well, I'll be interested to see what other people have to add to this thread, because I don't think I'm that good at developing communities.  I do think along the same lines Shark does, but just from his brief discription, his sound more interesting.Lately I've been thinking about the settlements that might dot a trans-desert caravan route.  Obviously oases will be where most or all of the settlements form in the real world, but this is fantasy, so I'm contemplating subterranean communities also.  Maybe even a secret underground river.  The caravans and other strangers traverse the desert on the surface, clawing their way from tiny oasis outpost to tinier oasis outpost.  But the real life of the region is underground.  But then I get stuck.Well, I've done a pretty good job of rambling, haven't I?  Sorry.  To make a long story short, I tend to think about a whole region rather than just a single settlement.  That might be a mistake, since it seems to be so hard for me.</blockquote>