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<blockquote data-quote="RavenSinger" data-source="post: 13157" data-attributes="member: 213"><p>Thanks for all the feed back!</p><p></p><p>My campaign's geography is based in an area of California south of San Jose in the Salinas Valley/Monterey Bay Area. The area is also known as Steinbeck Country because the novelist John Steinbeck centered many of his novels there. </p><p></p><p>One reason I like it so well is that it has quite a diversity of terrains in a relatively small area. Within a few days' journey a traveller could go through up to seven terrains--from coastal to salt marsh to rural farm to hills to low mountains to temperate rainforest to city. The other reason--a little more personal--is that I used to live near this area growing up, and I well remember how dramatic the landscape of this area is. Now I live in a very nice area of the country (Austin, TX), but the landscape lacks the dramatic character that I remember.</p><p></p><p>I agree with Photon (and others) in that the resources that are available can be very helpful. This past Christmas when I was out there, I purchased a coffee-table book of photgraphs of the area, which has been both useful to my players in showing them what I am talking about, and inspirational to me for creating ideas for new encounters.</p><p></p><p>I really like Hand's idea of also using ideas from the area's history--thoughts of the party travelling to the foothills of the Great Western Mountains (the Sierra Nevada's) to search in Dwarven gold mines are filling my head. And possibly a certain God's priesthood being modeled after the Spanish missions, etc. . .hmm, maybe I better go write some of this down. . . 'scuse me.</p><p></p><p>--RavenSinger</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RavenSinger, post: 13157, member: 213"] Thanks for all the feed back! My campaign's geography is based in an area of California south of San Jose in the Salinas Valley/Monterey Bay Area. The area is also known as Steinbeck Country because the novelist John Steinbeck centered many of his novels there. One reason I like it so well is that it has quite a diversity of terrains in a relatively small area. Within a few days' journey a traveller could go through up to seven terrains--from coastal to salt marsh to rural farm to hills to low mountains to temperate rainforest to city. The other reason--a little more personal--is that I used to live near this area growing up, and I well remember how dramatic the landscape of this area is. Now I live in a very nice area of the country (Austin, TX), but the landscape lacks the dramatic character that I remember. I agree with Photon (and others) in that the resources that are available can be very helpful. This past Christmas when I was out there, I purchased a coffee-table book of photgraphs of the area, which has been both useful to my players in showing them what I am talking about, and inspirational to me for creating ideas for new encounters. I really like Hand's idea of also using ideas from the area's history--thoughts of the party travelling to the foothills of the Great Western Mountains (the Sierra Nevada's) to search in Dwarven gold mines are filling my head. And possibly a certain God's priesthood being modeled after the Spanish missions, etc. . .hmm, maybe I better go write some of this down. . . 'scuse me. --RavenSinger [/QUOTE]
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