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Seerow 05-24-06, 03:26 PM	Okay, so there's a Worlds Largest Dungeon campaign starting up soon, and while I have a good part of my backstory made up, I have a crucial gap missing. Perhaps someone here with more knowledge or creativity than I can help fill that gap in. Roscoe had once been a halfling of some small village (name? I'm not sure what one might be), and had been quite content where he was. His natural intuition made him somebody that most people came to see for advice, and he was a fairly common person to see around the town. One day however, there was an attack on this town, by a horrible abberation of nature that burned everything to the ground. No explanation was given, and none could be demanded, the town as a whole was decimated. Roscoe awoke days after the attack to a dog licking at his face, he had lived only by the luck of being thought already dead. Examining the destruction, Roscoe found himself lost, and only the image of the monster that had attacked remained ingrained in his head. He took the dog, the only other survivor of the town, (how it survived he still hasn't figured out) and made his way slowly to the next town over. Over the week's journey, the two bonded in a way that Roscoe didn't yet understand. When they finally arrived at the next town (Name for this one too?) he lived off the hospitality of strangers, who would commend him for surviving such an attack. When first asked his name, Roscoe decided to instead give the name Flint, and dubbed the dog Steel, to represent the fires that had burned away their past lives and lead to the future. One wise elder of the town managed to identify the monster from his description of it. It was a [???]. Upon hearing that, now somewhat refreshed, Flint set out on his way. Through his journeys he has heard of a place of great evil, high in the mountains, which certainly harbors the beast that had attacked his home. At a bar in a town near the entrance he finds others, heading to the area for their own reasons, and joins with them, for fear that he alone cannot do enough. Okay, so obviously my big thing is Town Names (not necessarily important, but I'd like to have the flavor there), and needing to know of an abberation (preferably an abberation of nature so I have a reason to be a druid) who uses fire in its attacks. The only thing I can think of is a Red Dragon, but I'm nowhere near as well versed in the Monster Manual as some, so I thought I would toss the idea here to see what might come up.
Harrow Blade 05-26-06, 01:39 AM	I like the Flint and Steel thing naming wise. As to ideas for your story is it so important that the creature be an abberation of nature? Characters become druids without ever seeing or encountering abberant natural creatures/monsters. perhaps you had always had a love for animals and had been helping the local herbalist gather healing herbs when the town was attacked by rampaging Drake (perhaps under the compulsiuon of some greater creature or evil). You both try to help as best you but a colapsing house knocks you out and the herbalist is killed by the Drake. The rest of your story is perfectly good. Town names you can generally just make up unless you are in a specific setting then a quick look at the map in the book should sort you out.
Caedrus 05-30-06, 08:20 AM	Just a quick question... You ARE aware that Druids in the WLD are very poorly supported? I don't want to put in spoilers, but getting allies is rather hard. Just a thought. C.
Seerow 05-30-06, 10:34 PM	*spoilers* Actually I heard this already. And I brought it up with the DM and was accused of cheating for it. But when I tried to summon something, just to test it, it actually worked opposite of what I was told. Rather than no summoning at all, my summons refuse to leave. Apparently they can't be poofed back out of the dungeon, so they're stuck with me permanently. *endspoiler* Harrow: Thanks, I guess I thought the "I like trees and gathering herbs" was a bit too cliched... but vengence on one type of creature is really almost ranger territory anyway. So that works I suppose. And I realize town names can generally be made up, which is why I asked for generic names. I wound up turning in my sheet with the towns unnamed (as it's due in), but the truth is I don't like coming up with my own names for towns and stuff, as I generally find them either impossible to write and/or pronounce, or horribly cliched. Which is why I had asked for help on that end from creative people rather than "Can I get a town from XXX campaign setting?". I guess I could have looked at an Eberron or FR map and just picked something off there... but eh.