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  1. 2017-09-10, 10:28 PM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #1
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    Default Places you want to adventure - because we needed another art thread.

    This is my offshoot of the Dungeons and Dreamboats character art thread, this one focused on setting. What goes here? Pictures of any place that captures the imagination. A place can be a landscape, or a cityscape, or one building. It can be a real life photograph, or it can be a piece of fictional artwork, as long as it would make a cool setting.
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  2. 2017-09-10, 10:32 PM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #2
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    Default Re: Places you want to adventure - because we needed another art thread.

    We'll start with Rothenburg, Germany, because I have a weakness for picturesque Bavarian villages.

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    And if we're talking about Rothenburg, we have to bring up Neuschwanstein, the archetypal fantasy castle.

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  3. 2017-09-10, 11:04 PM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #3
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    Default Re: Places you want to adventure - because we needed another art thread.

    On to some more striking landscapes. Like this image of Bass Lake, California burning in 2014.

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    This fire is in the Bitterroot National Forest in Montana, where I actually used to live.

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    This one is somewhere in Washington, but I don't know exactly where.

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    Here's one near Clearlake, California, from afar.

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    Here's a firetruck moving through that same fire.

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    Here's San Diego with a fire in the background.

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    I think forest fires hold some really big potential in terms of adventuring backdrops. Especially since I can imaging several D&D monsters that could easily start one.

    Here's a Russian forest fire, near Golovanovo. This one is breathtakingly atmospheric.

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    Somebody ran it through a color filter, creating something deliciously creepy.

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    Finally, here's Moscow bathed in smoke from a forest fire.

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  4. 2017-09-10, 11:10 PM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #4
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    Default Re: Places you want to adventure - because we needed another art thread.

    I keep entire folders full of these kinds of images when I'm designing nations, as inspirational material.

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    If asked the question "how can I do this within this system?" answering with "use a different system" is never a helpful or appreciated answer.

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  5. 2017-09-10, 11:17 PM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #5
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    Here's the Alakai'i Swamp Trail in Kauai, Hawaii.

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  6. 2017-09-10, 11:24 PM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #6
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  7. 2017-09-11, 02:05 AM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #7
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    Lauterbrunnen Valley, in Switzerland. Also known as Rivendell.
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  8. 2017-09-11, 03:01 AM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #8
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    You could have seen it in 1922's Nosferatu



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    Instead of having an adventure, from which a cool unexpected story may rise, you had a story, with an adventure built and designed to enable the story, but also ensure (or close to ensure) it happens.
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  9. 2017-09-16, 09:06 PM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #9
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