My first campaign will mostly be implied PoL. The PCs will start in a small village on the northern edge of the vast, feyhaunted wilderness, and the southernmost reaches of the empire of Teraz. But it is an empire in name only. Grey-skinned soldiers from the capital arrive once a year to take the tribute for their immortal god-queen, but otherwise they are unknown in the realm. At the moment, the god-queen's armies are focused on concerns other than trade routes and peasant squabbling.
(So, I get both an evil empire and lots of uncivilized expanses in the same area. Hooray!)
My tieflings band together in caravans on the outskirts of cities or in insular neighborhoods, and my dragonborn are obligate nomads, calling no place home for long. The dwarves were driven long ago from their cavernous strongholds and have taken refuge in human society. The rest of the races are pretty much as described.
But no goblins. Mothers tell stories of goblins to children who won't go to bed, but no one in a hundred years or more has ever seen goblins come raiding.
Will the PCs push south, into the wilderness? Or will they resolve to topple the god-queen, for good or ill? Or something else entirely? I'm not sure, but I'm looking forward to it.
(So, I get both an evil empire and lots of uncivilized expanses in the same area. Hooray!)
My tieflings band together in caravans on the outskirts of cities or in insular neighborhoods, and my dragonborn are obligate nomads, calling no place home for long. The dwarves were driven long ago from their cavernous strongholds and have taken refuge in human society. The rest of the races are pretty much as described.
But no goblins. Mothers tell stories of goblins to children who won't go to bed, but no one in a hundred years or more has ever seen goblins come raiding.
Will the PCs push south, into the wilderness? Or will they resolve to topple the god-queen, for good or ill? Or something else entirely? I'm not sure, but I'm looking forward to it.