My Evil Is Law: Regions and Settlements

Creating and populating the world

The world is a weird place that is influenced by magic, advanced technology, extraterrestrial visitors, and interdimensional travelers. Anything can be found, if you look to the correct place. Each time a psycher camp is forced to destroy another timeline, that destroyed universe rebounds onto this universe and this world, changing it forever. Because of this, maps are rarely accurate and the move continually moves on from its own inhabitants.

See previous My Evil is Law posts here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9.

To give credit where its due, I found the Cairn 2e Warden Guide (the PDF s free!) very inspiration, but also adapted my own material from Mysteries of the Multiverse.

Sample Region

Fungal Jungle (results 7 [jungle], 18 [half-buried spaceship]): Toxic, fungal spores prevent most creatures from surviving in the jungles, leaving only uniquely adapted creatures, robots, and those with protective gear as its only inhabitants. It is rumored that an ancient spaceship crashed into the jungle and is still full of valuable technology.

Regions

Primary features are always obvious to explorers. Secondary features may be obvious or may be initially unknown when exploring a region.

Primary Feature

1. Swamp

2. Glacier

3. Ruin

4. Mountains

5. Sea/ Islands

6. Desert

7. Jungle

8. City

9. Plains

10. Forest

11. Foothills

12. Valleys

13. Bogs

14. Lava Fields

15. Snow Fields

16. Caverns

17. Dunes

18. Coral Reefs

19. Plateaus

20. Steppes

Secondary Feature

1. Geysers

2. Hotsprings

3. Battlefield

4. Caves

5. Craters

6. Remote Village

7. Mines

8. Wizard Tower

9. Gargantuan Monument

10. Volcano

11. River/ Lake

12. Menhirs

13. Graveyard

14. Sinkhole

15. Titanic Skeleton

16. Volcano

17. Strange Mists

18. Half-Buried Spaceship

19. Crumbling Aqueduct

20. Dead Forest

Sample Community

The People of The Astral Beast (results 6 [prison], 1 [hidden from the overlord]): A great entity is bound within this prison of rune covered stone. Its emits power which is harnessed by the citizens of this strange settlement and converted into electricity. They remain hidden from the overlord, who would take this entity and use it to power a psycher camp, if it were ever discovered.

Settlements

Settlements may be large or small, safe or dangerous.

Primary Feature

1. Academy

2. Nomad Caravan

3. City

4. Fortified Compound

5. Temple

6. Prison

7. Psycher Camp

8. Town

9. Single Homestead

10. Villa Manor

11. Bunker

12. Mausoleum

Secondary Feature

1. Hidden From the Overlord

2. Trade Hub

3. Valued Natural Resources

4. Technologically Advanced

5. Home to Powerful Caster(s)

6. A Site of Pilgrimage

7. Home to a Great Warrior or Artisan

8. Location of a Powerful Artifact

9. Actively ruled by a Scion

10. Highly Traditional

11. Intune with Nature

12. Reclusive and Untrusting

What’d you roll and what you create?

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