I would love for some believable, immersive backdrop, like... a farm... with farmers... and a village, with a tavern...
Wouldnt it kinda destroy the whole idea of "being in middle of nowhere"? O_o
I mean it hardly can still be called wilderness if you have village with tavern and farms all around.
Well it certainly is equally weird to have a goblin army searching without success for a grove full of demonoid refugees and druids only 10 minutes walking from them
in the middle of nowhere ?
I'm sorry, you already brought up the middle of nowhere argument, i don't buy it, the map is full of well maintained roads with groups of NPC's placed ridiculously close to eachother. Perhaps in theory the map could be middle of nowhere, but as there is an awful lot of people populating the middle of nowhere, I don't really see why the map would be exactly that. By what definition is it middle of nowhere ? By the definition of - the map has some serious shortcomings - let's brush aside issues with unrealistic plot devices like that tadpole ? Not sure about you but I wouldn't define a place with so many roads and different armed groups meeting there as 'nowhere' , middle of nowhere I would expect wildlife, farms, occasional traveler, hermits, hunters, and vast spaces of emptiness. Quite the opposite of the current map I would say....
