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<blockquote data-quote="N'raac" data-source="post: 6119095" data-attributes="member: 6681948">But we have moved on from the module.&nbsp; There was no siege.&nbsp; If the city is in the desert then, to me, that has ramifications.&nbsp; It is different than a port town, or a crosroad of trade routes, or a keep on the borderlands.&nbsp; That it is in the desert should create aspects of the city that are, if&nbsp; not unique, at least distinguishing from cities elsewhere.And I would suggest that it is not the placement of the city in a desert that would make the module crap.&nbsp; It would be failure to populate that desert with interesting encounters that are evocative of this desert setting, rather than have a game that is indistinguishable from one that might take place on a river, in a forest or in the mountains.&nbsp; The creatures selected as wasteland mauraders all seem appropriate.&nbsp; Their use, not so much - let's set some encounters that highlight the nature of these beasts, and the plane that produces them, not just throw out some stat blocks and pay a bit of lip service to the setting.And, if the PC's have no idea where they are going, perhaps it would be better to establish that they will come acrosss a specific three encounters in this wasteland hopefully with some meaning and connection to the ongoing story), after which they will find that temple - &quot;which direction&quot; in a boundless wasteland makes little difference.It's &quot;just colour&quot; only until we make it not &quot;just colour&quot;.&nbsp; If it's a city in the middle of the desert, I don't expect to see a shipyard, or encounter a group of drunken sailors.&nbsp; Pemerton, you mentioned a lot of scimitars and precious few longbows - that naturally extrapolates to the relative ease of purchasing a scimitar versus longbow arrows, and may impact a longbow specialist.&nbsp; I would not expect the fare in the local inn to be fish stew, rice and watermelon.&nbsp; Hiring 6 longspearmen is likely to be pretty tough with a lack of wood resources from which those longspears would be constructed.An expectation of &quot;lots of bandits and caravans&quot; seems to suggest bandits and caravans would be encountered in the desert.&nbsp; Heavy armor and Priests of the Sea God?&nbsp; Not so much.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="N'raac, post: 6119095, member: 6681948"] But we have moved on from the module. There was no siege. If the city is in the desert then, to me, that has ramifications. It is different than a port town, or a crosroad of trade routes, or a keep on the borderlands. That it is in the desert should create aspects of the city that are, if not unique, at least distinguishing from cities elsewhere. And I would suggest that it is not the placement of the city in a desert that would make the module crap. It would be failure to populate that desert with interesting encounters that are evocative of this desert setting, rather than have a game that is indistinguishable from one that might take place on a river, in a forest or in the mountains. The creatures selected as wasteland mauraders all seem appropriate. Their use, not so much - let's set some encounters that highlight the nature of these beasts, and the plane that produces them, not just throw out some stat blocks and pay a bit of lip service to the setting. And, if the PC's have no idea where they are going, perhaps it would be better to establish that they will come acrosss a specific three encounters in this wasteland hopefully with some meaning and connection to the ongoing story), after which they will find that temple - "which direction" in a boundless wasteland makes little difference. It's "just colour" only until we make it not "just colour". If it's a city in the middle of the desert, I don't expect to see a shipyard, or encounter a group of drunken sailors. Pemerton, you mentioned a lot of scimitars and precious few longbows - that naturally extrapolates to the relative ease of purchasing a scimitar versus longbow arrows, and may impact a longbow specialist. I would not expect the fare in the local inn to be fish stew, rice and watermelon. Hiring 6 longspearmen is likely to be pretty tough with a lack of wood resources from which those longspears would be constructed. An expectation of "lots of bandits and caravans" seems to suggest bandits and caravans would be encountered in the desert. Heavy armor and Priests of the Sea God? Not so much. [/QUOTE]

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