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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Firebird" data-source="post: 9804398" data-attributes="member: 7015803">I played DDO, Guild Wars, and Maplestory. Ime in these you don't feel like a part of the world--you can't really have an effect on it, any characters you have relationships with have the same dialogue and the same response to anyone in the world--it is like a theme park that you and your friends move through without changing anything. That's not necessarily a bad thing but I want something different in tabletop. In the movie, Conan is connected to the primary villain who is now active in the lands they're in. In the stories, Conan is often given a personal tie--he is king, or in the governor's service. Or we have a side character who does have a close relationship to the area. When he is an outsider (Queen of the Black Coast or Red Nails) the story leans into the idea of travel and of seeing an unfamiliar society. If you're running a pirate campaign then the circus idea is a good one. It makes sense that the PCs are a diverse lot because they occupy a diverse part of society.It's when they're both way more unique than the society they live in and don't have a stake in that society that it becomes a problem.</blockquote>