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    Petra is teh awesomesauce. And it appears in
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    "There never was a golden age. It was only ever iron." Lord Hetwar The Hallowed Hunt, p204

    "Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colours are real, too." Lady Ijada, ibid, p230.

    Two good maxims for running campaigns, I think.

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    Re: Real Locations that should be fantasy

    Quote Originally Posted by Drhoz View Post
    Erebus was the one that tourist plane flew straight into under white-out conditions
    Yup. A shame that happened.

    Erebus is an amazing site to behold. It actually has lava glowing from its tippy top. Amazing having lava in such a frozen wasteland. Excellent for a group of PCs trying to fight a rimefire elemental or even two separate elementals of fire and ice. I like how it brings up the Frost poem in my mind.

    A pic of it from above. You can see the lava.



    A close up of the steaming caldera



    And here is the book by HP Lovecraft that should give some ideas for a story here

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    Tekkeli-li! That's what I say.
    "Things would be much better if more things were on fire." -- lemming

    "I may not be consistent, but I'm happily schizoid." -- "V"

    "Trouble expands to fill the space available." -- Markdoc

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vondy View Post
    One of our show hosts makes a living as a tour guide and does frequent trips to Petra. I want to go on one.
    I'm going there in 3 weeks First time, for me.

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    I'm jealous, frankly.
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    Quote Originally Posted by L. Marcus View Post
    Tekkeli-li! That's what I say.
    Yeah, that's what Poe said!

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    The photo above is at Ayutthaya in Thailand. I've been there a few years back and it's pretty cool. It used to be the capital of the old siamese kingdom (it's the place Tony Jaa goes to attempt his revenge in Ong Bak 2) but was trashed by the invading Burmese. Today, it's several square kilometers of ruins. The "Buddha head in the fig tree" is the most famous sight, but some of the old temple remains are IMO much more interesting - if you google "Ayutthaya" you will get more interesting images than you can shake a beheaded buddha at. It's also easy to reach by train from Bangkok - if you start early in the day, it makes a great day trip.

    Here's an example:

    You can walk up the steps on the central penis-shaped building and go inside, then investigate the small dark shrines inside: you can wander pretty much wherever you like on the site.

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    *makes note*
    "Things would be much better if more things were on fire." -- lemming

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    Re: Real Locations that should be fantasy

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    Re: Real Locations that should be fantasy

    Watch the BBC special Planet Earth to see a lot of interesting places.
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    Or just watch Planet Earth anyway to see why our planet needs protecting
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    "There never was a golden age. It was only ever iron." Lord Hetwar The Hallowed Hunt, p204

    "Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colours are real, too." Lady Ijada, ibid, p230.

    Two good maxims for running campaigns, I think.

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    If we ignore the environment, maybe it will go away.
    ...and that's when the destruction began.

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    It's his fault!
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