What are your thoughts on the comfy fantasy starter village trope?
>>97528316gotta be one of the top places to burn down when the PCs are doing some bullshit in the woods.
>>97528316Screw just making it your starting village, make the whole setting comfy
>>97528450It takes away from the vibe if it's the whole setting though. Even LOTR had the Shire be a specific place far West.
This is the music I would use for when the players are hanging out in a happy rustic village: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7uBQr--9Rc
I'll have a nice cup of ale at the Harvest Festival before I have a dance with a nice young girl from the village.
>>97528316>Comfy village has 1000 mostly-peaceful peasants>Of those 1000, 400 (40 percent) are adults>Of those 400, 40 (10 percent) are talented enough to become leveled>Of those 40, one (2.5 percent)* is a weirdo who wants to go adventuring, the protagonist of his village>He goes to the nearest city, meets up with a few other weirdos, and forms an adventuring partyI guess it makes mathematical sense, but dealing with all these tiny numbers still grates on my nerves. 90 percent of people have so little talent that they're stuck at level zero? 97.5 percent of leveled people are content to stay in their villages rather than going adventuring?*The image and most of the numbers are from ACKS 2, but this last number of 2.5 percent actually is not in ACKS 2--I'm just throwing it out at random.
>>97529682I mean logically every random villager can't become an adventurer
>>97529682>>97530216What he said, the odds make a bit of sense. Look at a corporate office building; there could be 1000 people who show up to work everyday, of which a small handful will ever step outside of their comfort zone, and an even smaller handful have done anything really noteworthy with their lives.
Here, OP. The comfiest campaign map I have. Sorry about the red squiggle, it's how I found it.
>>97530523That's very well laid out!
>>97528316It needs to have a rundown gate (because you don't need to maintain them in prolonged peacetime).
>>97528316Generals are cancer.
>>97531125yep
>>97531156Making something a general attracts attention
>>97528316My thoughts are that the people who want /comfy/ are faggy manchildren
>>97529682Maybe the profession of the adventurer is too lethal for most people to consider
>>97535439This
Fuck off, puckee.
>>97536121Of course it's him. Why would I expect anything else?
>>97528450That takes away from the impact though.
>>97534613It's good if it's not the whole setting.
This strapping young lad looks ready to help with some tasks.
>>97538072These farm wives look like lovely ladies.
I love comfy
What are some good songs that evoke "comfy"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSjfkwvOOAM
>>97528316I always have an NPC modeled after a character from a show/movie/game that brings me comfort in the 'starting zone'
>>97540487Yeah, there are a lot of cozy personalities that have been done in media.
>>97540280Middle Earth. Selected portions of it, anyway.PriConne.The comfiest is still british, but it is Dinotopia.
>>97528329>doomed hometownmaking the first place your characters visit be as idyllic as possible instantly alerts them to the possibility it will be destroyed
>>97540721That's one of my favorite adventure starts.
>>97537978>Ryan Gosling before cocaine and stardom
>>97530523kino map, saved. Only way it could be more kino would be a hexcrawl version.
>>97541327Here's his world anvil: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/magnamund---goodwin-version-sheardg/map/d4df6efc-17f0-4f06-9d9e-d8cb2dfd504b
>>97531125Is there a reason these are out of focus?
This is a great theme for max comfiness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAOKk8m3Uro
>>97540984>puckee
Does anybody remember this setting that was made here with a bunch of anons?
>>97544843I do.
>>97528316Comfy is really appealing for skeletons and dark lords to attack
>>97540487I can think of a few:>Akko as the zainy witch student.>Luke Skywalker as a veteran paladin who has seen it all. Would likely be a mentor character in an animated series. >Harry Potter as a wizard's apprentice. >Keanu Reeves as a retired assassin, turned priest. Disappears after the orc raid, back for the finale.>Nicholas Cage as a janitor that never speaks. Appears out of nowhere to save your asses during the Orc raid, one-shots the Warchief. Randomly appears through the campaign and beyond.>Woody as the sheriff. >Goku as a mega athlete that pushes the party to get sick gains. >Mario runs the tavern, his wife ran off on him so he's having a rough go of things. Invented something called 'plumbing' using the pipes from the ancient ruins to ensure running water, got laughed out of the wizard's tower for it.>Luigi: lives in a mansion just outside of the scary woods. Merchant for clerics and paladins. >King Arthur: a distant character. You never see him, only get to see the splendor of his kingdom.
What are some good ideas for running comfy region?
>>97548290I find comfy regions work best as the starting zone, have the rest of the world be absolute shit as juxtoposition. Run the villagers themselves as a friendly, happy folk who are either ignorant to, or just dont care about the state of the rest of the world. When the party gears up to go on the adventure, have them say things like "But why would you leave?" and "Your place is here in the village" basically the shire desu
>>97548290https://www.wistedt.net/2020/12/13/how-to-create-a-dd-campaign-world-a-step-by-step-guide/his English isn't always the best, but his instructions are wise and his art/maps are fantastic.the starting town itself:https://www.wistedt.net/2020/08/30/welcome-to-fourtower-bridge/there is a PDF with keyed locations, NPCs, etc. just a cosy little trading post. a few hooks you could play off, although it probably needs fleshing out if the party are taking a rest from Stonehell whenever they can!
>>97548490>>97548522>>97548530>>97548535These are great!
>>97548290This one heavily depends on the game
>>97552354Does it really though?
>>97553078What you could get with a dnd comfy place doesn't seem the same you could get for space opera
>>97553094I guess it depends more on the setting than system. But sure makes sense.
Let's get some ambience in here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97i48UzoDlg
>>97544843Oh yeah, I recognize that artist, I think they used to do the Baba art!
>>97529682The county of flanders had close to a million people right before the black death hit. I'm sure you could find similar examples in northern italy or whatever. This chart activates the tism.
>>97536121Jannylarping is killing this board.
>>97556114You can't kill that which is already dead.
>>97529682I have a confirmed IQ of over 130 (INT) and am quite handy due to having a trade job (DEX, CON, maybe STR), have multiple years of acting experience (CHA) and in my years of social work I acquired a sense for people (WIS). I am not even 30 so perfect starting age for an adventurer with decent statsthat being said, I would literally kill for a quiet homestead and then would kill whoever tries to make me leave. thanks for reading my blogpost
>>97530523>continent surrounded by salt water>presumably fresh water river dividing continent from sea to sea>presumably arbitrary water flowI know it's a nitpick but this shit destroyed immersion for me
>>97531125it rather speaks to an inefficient tax system and much corruption in the local government. even in peace times people maintained infrastructure and even in war time bridges and walls dilapidated when the local lord had other things to do with the money
>>97542860I don't care about namefags, I'm talking about the cut of his face. He looks like Ryan fucking Gosling hit 40 while running a Waffle House.
>>97563229puckee is not a namefag, autists just obsess over him and stalk him online everywhere
>>97528316it's a trope for city dwelling normies since no person with common sense would exchange the peace and quiet of nature for almost certain death in a cursed tomb. if you actively, willingly remove yourself from nature you have some kind of mental disorder
>>97565859Usually the village is attacked and the hero is sent on the heroes journey because of that.
