Base-camp for most delvers is the nigh-lawless boomtown, Gryfalcon. The town squats on the left bank of the River Fflish across from the old Imperial fortification of the same name. Located at the head of navigation, it provides a convenient place to deprive delvers of their haul and to bring new treasure seekers from elsewhere.
Lake Murrn is north and west of Gryfalcon. Rustic Mudfoot halfings live in stilt-houses. Villages sometimes build out on the water. There are rumors of human sacrifice of outsiders to appease the giant, alligator snapping turtle, Old Ironjaws. There is quite possibly a crashed alien flier half-buried in silt beneath its waters.
Lichwode, north and somewhat west of Lake Murrn, is a small forest dotted with several burial mounds. The locals assume these barrows hold ancient Elvish treasure or even far older Coleopteran refuse, but they also assume them to be haunted. The man-shapes burnt permanently into the grass and the curiously life-like statues of some pockmarked stone with faces contorted in abject terror, found in the area may support this belief.
The Dharwood is floodplain bottomland forest along the Fflish, haven for humanoid tribes, escaped slaves, and outlaws.
Carsulth is a bustling Imperial port at mouth of the Fflish. Its broadminded folk are friendly with smugglers and pirates, when proper recompense is offered for their lack of prejudice. Some, perhaps many, of its nobles practice diabolic heresy (a perversion of the already self-serving Rannite Cult of Ascension) at least in private.
Carsulth is a bustling Imperial port at mouth of the Fflish. Its broadminded folk are friendly with smugglers and pirates, when proper recompense is offered for their lack of prejudice. Some, perhaps many, of its nobles practice diabolic heresy (a perversion of the already self-serving Rannite Cult of Ascension) at least in private.
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Maps or it doesn't exist. :)
It's coming. :) The post was more or less to get the locales down somewhere to aide that process.
Sounds like a great start, very much a classic dungeon crawl.
Maybe sometime I should write up the framework to my Harrow Downs campaign (well, loosely linked set of dungeon crawls) which I ran backin 1st/2nd ed days.
I've never played GURPS, but this sounds like a fun setting to explore!
Thaanks, Bill!
@seaofstarsrpg - I'd like to see that! This doesn't really bear a lot of resemblance to my old campaign(s) in those days, but I'm cannibalizing elements of them.
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