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: Every weapon is unique and interesting, and a lot of that interesting-ness comes from the Qualities the various weapons have. Don't just look for the weapon that has the biggest damage die! We promise, EVERY weapon is pretty amazing. Try something new! You'll like it! | : Every weapon is unique and interesting, and a lot of that interesting-ness comes from the Qualities the various weapons have. Don't just look for the weapon that has the biggest damage die! We promise, EVERY weapon is pretty amazing. Try something new! You'll like it! | ||
=== Wilderness === | |||
:* '''AKA:''' Untamed Wilds, Uncivilized Locale, Middle of Nowhere | |||
: A wilderness is a broad term to describe a natural, unsettled, and uncivilized location. This is a place that either hasn't been touched by the civilized races, or it was never built up to serve any purpose for any race (civilized or otherwise), or it has simply become so overgrown that it can no longer serve the purpose for which it was built. For example, a forest, desert, mountain pass, the bottom of the ocean, etc., are all examples of a wilderness, as long as no creature has tried to carve out a living space, or other purposeful construction, in that location. As soon as tools are applied with the intent to modify the location to serve some purpose, it ceases to be wilderness. | |||
: An edge case is an abandoned town which has been overrun by nature. In this case, if the town is so ruined by nature that it is uninhabitable, even by monsters, then it is certainly a wilderness. If monsters can (semi-comfortably) inhabit it, however, it is more likely a [[#Dungoen|dungeon]]. | |||
: Note that chopping down a tree in a forest to produce lumber isn't the same as working the location to make it serve a purpose. It can still be wilderness if the lumber is being hauled elsewhere to be used to settle some other location. Extracting resources from a wilderness doesn't make it civilized, any more than removing gold from a dungeon makes that place civilized. | |||
=== Workspace === | === Workspace === | ||