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<blockquote data-quote="JiffyPopTart" data-source="post: 8192537" data-attributes="member: 4881">First let me take a moment to point out that when you paraphrased me as saying &quot;set the tone for how all small villages should be viewed&quot; I want to point out that you added the word ALL in there.&nbsp; I generally try to avoid using absolutes, because absolutes make for poor world building.&nbsp; I think its fine to say say that manticores are dangerous monsters, but I would not use the term ALL manticores are dangerous monsters because then I have locked myself out of a plot including a good manticore.&nbsp; Similarly if I see something that says that halflings are content to stay home and get fat, that doesn't mean to me that ALL halflings are content to stay home and get fat.&nbsp; At no point did I say Phandolin is &quot;how all small villages should be viewed&quot; but rather &quot;this is a typical small village as presented by WotC&quot;.So, going back to what I said using Phandolin as a topic.&nbsp; Phandolin is presented to players in the beginners box set.&nbsp; Presumably this box set is aimed at new players...so it represents what WotC at some point decided &quot;These are the parts of D&amp;D that we want to showcase to people that might be unfamiliar with D&amp;D and are playing it for the first time.&quot;.&nbsp; They include a &quot;starter village&quot; for the PCs to begin their adventuring career in.&nbsp; This is going to influence how players see &quot;small villages&quot; in D&amp;D, and it's a look that WotC have decided represents &quot;D&amp;D&quot; as a brand.If you definition of &quot;vastly more lethal and fraught with danger&quot; is a group of bandits under the direction of an evil wizard who kill a few townfolk and burn a few buildings down before all being slaughtered by adventurers then our view of the lethality probably differs.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JiffyPopTart, post: 8192537, member: 4881"] First let me take a moment to point out that when you paraphrased me as saying "set the tone for how all small villages should be viewed" I want to point out that you added the word ALL in there. I generally try to avoid using absolutes, because absolutes make for poor world building. I think its fine to say say that manticores are dangerous monsters, but I would not use the term ALL manticores are dangerous monsters because then I have locked myself out of a plot including a good manticore. Similarly if I see something that says that halflings are content to stay home and get fat, that doesn't mean to me that ALL halflings are content to stay home and get fat. At no point did I say Phandolin is "how all small villages should be viewed" but rather "this is a typical small village as presented by WotC". So, going back to what I said using Phandolin as a topic. Phandolin is presented to players in the beginners box set. Presumably this box set is aimed at new players...so it represents what WotC at some point decided "These are the parts of D&D that we want to showcase to people that might be unfamiliar with D&D and are playing it for the first time.". They include a "starter village" for the PCs to begin their adventuring career in. This is going to influence how players see "small villages" in D&D, and it's a look that WotC have decided represents "D&D" as a brand. If you definition of "vastly more lethal and fraught with danger" is a group of bandits under the direction of an evil wizard who kill a few townfolk and burn a few buildings down before all being slaughtered by adventurers then our view of the lethality probably differs. [/QUOTE]

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