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<blockquote data-quote="Shades of Green" data-source="post: 2311994" data-attributes="member: 3297"><p>Same with my campaign - Renya is a frontier area, especially it's swamps and northern jungles. In the far more civilized areas to the south (Renya is near the equator, on the southern hemisphere), obvious, wild monsters (Orcs and some goblinoids included) are nearly extinct; most monsters are either tamed (griffins, hipogriffs, some lesser dragons), endagered species (major evil dragons, orcs, most wild things) or hiding very well in the cracks of civilization (vampires, wererats, mindflayers, abolethes and so on - anything smart enough to adapt to a semi-industrial society and hide well).</p><p></p><p>Renya is wilder, with the possibe exception of it's heavily-inhabitated shores; While the coastal area had little roaming monsters, the swamps and jungles were wild places, where the relatively savage Celiran and Human villages often had to defend themselves from Bullywug, Lizardfolk, Kao-Tua and so on raids. Civilization encrouches on these areas now; many beasts are being hunted, while others go into hiding, but some join with the Celiran-Human anti-technoloical guerillas (such as the Daughters of the Harvest).</p><p></p><p>Ofcourse, all of this does not include summoned, created or animated things - constructs, outsiders, undead and the progeny of mad wizard/scientist laboratories. When a Harvester high-level priestess casts Animate Dead (or worse), even the elite Imperial Guard will be in peril...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shades of Green, post: 2311994, member: 3297"] Same with my campaign - Renya is a frontier area, especially it's swamps and northern jungles. In the far more civilized areas to the south (Renya is near the equator, on the southern hemisphere), obvious, wild monsters (Orcs and some goblinoids included) are nearly extinct; most monsters are either tamed (griffins, hipogriffs, some lesser dragons), endagered species (major evil dragons, orcs, most wild things) or hiding very well in the cracks of civilization (vampires, wererats, mindflayers, abolethes and so on - anything smart enough to adapt to a semi-industrial society and hide well). Renya is wilder, with the possibe exception of it's heavily-inhabitated shores; While the coastal area had little roaming monsters, the swamps and jungles were wild places, where the relatively savage Celiran and Human villages often had to defend themselves from Bullywug, Lizardfolk, Kao-Tua and so on raids. Civilization encrouches on these areas now; many beasts are being hunted, while others go into hiding, but some join with the Celiran-Human anti-technoloical guerillas (such as the Daughters of the Harvest). Ofcourse, all of this does not include summoned, created or animated things - constructs, outsiders, undead and the progeny of mad wizard/scientist laboratories. When a Harvester high-level priestess casts Animate Dead (or worse), even the elite Imperial Guard will be in peril... [/QUOTE]
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