That's one... One more from someone, please...

No problemo or object yo

OKAY SO. Now we know what places are in canon.

Here's what I think:
--We've already got a long eastern coast. Magical ley line runs up and down it.

--We've got an equatorial ley line, with a ring of magic krill where the two lines meet.

--We've got a big swamp. I imagine it being at the south end of the long coast. Therefore, I think the ring of light is down south of there.

--We've got a mysterious dangerous magical island somewhere in the ring (probably at its center).

--We've got a big desert. I suggest it be on the western half of the continent...

--We've got a village where there's smokeweed... Might I suggest it's north of the swamp?

--Underneath a lot of this, we have some accursed mines.

So... Is there more to say about this? Or some reason something has to be moved, conceptually?

I don't believe so no.

not on my part

Okay then the next thing... Rounds 3 and 4. Gods first then people? Or people first then gods?

I lean the second way, BUT i CAN see it the other way. Which way do y'all lean?

I'm leaning towards the God's first, I think a pantheon needs to be establish first before people start popping off.

I believe gods highlight aspects of people and not the other way around. So I'll vote for people first.

Oh, I take the anthropoligist POV. People first then gods. People invent gods. That's what I'd like, gods like the ones in Americna Gods if anyone saw that show or read the books. Gods born from mortal needs rather than gods creating the mortals.

So, my vote, people then gods.

As to arranging the stuff, that works. The big crazy caves feels a bit underdarky. Also reminds me of the subterannean world in the Percy Jackson novels.

So, desert in the west? Why move the desert rather than put the swamp and field in the west? Part of the description of the desert was that it made getting to the coast difficult. Not hard to access the coast if the two most likely to be populated areas are right next to it. As for the arrangement of the watery stuff, sounds fine to me.

That leaves us with a single large continent and some islands? How close is the continent to the equator? By its description, it feels close. Coral reefs, swamps, mangroves, etc. Sounds Florida-esque. It even has its own bermuda triangle!

Okay yeah that's similar to my POV.

So with 5 of us, you and me and Xadir agreeing means we're doin' People first.

I'll get to that tomorrow.




Ohhhhh ooooookay. Swamp westerly, Desert JUST to the west of the eastern coast, then.

So... Where do you think the chessboard village should be placed, then, exactly...?

North of the swamp as you said or potentially it could be that village in the Coast description that farms Smokeweed. Yeah?

EDIT: also, we have a pretty inhospitable continent. I am just realizing. Chessboard Village might be the only major settlement so far... and lost Pendrell.
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I'm just going to point out if the chessboard is the most major settlement the lost pendrell swamp would no longer be the major place to find smoke weed.

Most is on a very small scale here, I think. And The Lost Pendrell Swamp would be a hard push for that since the Chessboard location is also included and they farm Smnokeweed on a alarge scale there.

But again, the settlements here seem small so far. Pendrell might have been bigger when it was at its height, but it isn't anymore, is it?

I disagree and agree. I by no means see the chessboard as the most major settlement. On the other hand, I also agree that the swamp very well might not be the main place people go to harvest smokeweed.

It seems that there are three places the Smokeweed is cultivated. We might consider that each area produces a variety unique to it? Bit like pipeweed in Middle Earth? Differences in quality and taste, perhaps, but not effect?

A little late to the party, as it seems already decided, but, without entering in real world religious views of anyone, in a fantasy world it's likely to be the other way.

Nonetheless, be it Gods creating peoples from their power, or people creating Gods fro mtheir beliefs, they are likely for one to be a "réflex" of the other, and so the result not changing too much.

So, I abstain, being good with both possibilities.

SO

--The continent has a long eastern coast. A magical ley line runs up and down it.

--We've got a big desert on the eastern half of the continent... It's hard to get to the coast by land because of the desert.

--There is an equatorial ley line, with a ring of magic krill where the two lines meet. This ring of light is south of the bottom of the coast, and a bit to the west, as the north-south ley line curves.

--There is a mysterious dangerous magical island somewhere in the ring (probably at its center).

--There is a big swamp somewhere over on the western side of the continent.

--There is a ("chessboard") village where there's smokeweed... It's north of the swamp.

--Underneath a lot of the continent, there is a system of (accursed) mine tunnels.


Everything look right now...?

I'd also like to suggest the following:

--The western edge of the swamp isn't going to end and then 10 FEET LATER THE DESERT STARTS. I just don't believe it. So it seems to me that there's got to be something between them... I suggest broad sweeping plains (that drain into the swamp). Or... or do you prefer mountains? Mountains surrounded by plains? Weather patterns that usually go from west to east hitting a mountain range could explain why there's a desert on the east side (except for the desert's rainy season when the winds change...)...

--The swamp also doesn't have to be the only thing on the western half of the continent. I can see woods or whatever there. For that matter, if the continent's big enough, it'll get cold as one goes north...

We're not going to DEVELOP these interstitial//liminal places right now... BUT i would be okay with people doing so as they develop their cultures in Round Three.

Any thoughts about the above before I officially start Round Three...?

IMHO the Cursed Istald should be in a more accesible place, as it's said to have been colonized several times (all of them unsuccessful).

It could be along the West coast, so begining to also develop this wester área...

I did wonder about the colonization.

My suggestion:

--Legends say there are a number of mysterious magical islands in the Ring of Light area.

--ONE of them is actually on the OUTSIDE of the Ring of Light, about 10 miles to the west. It's the one that keeps trying to get colonized (which always fails sooner or later).

--The legends say that the islands INSIDE the Ring of Light are even richer in resources and natural treasures than the one to the west of the Ring, so cultures want to get their hands on those even more...


How's that...?

I t Works for me...

Okay, good... so... anyone else before I officially start Round Three...? If not, someone give me a "let's accept the above and go ahead GM"

...Why is no one saying anything

At least for me I'm afraid if I say it's all good someone else will be hampered by my say so. Making them unable to point out things they find problems with.

Well that didn't stop us last time...

And let me also say: things COULD be changed later, it would just be EASIER to change them now...

let's accept the above and go ahead GM