Settlements

Or, where people live.

All stories, at their core, are about people, and the stories told in Last Odyssey are no different. For safety and because we are social animals, human beings will almost always be found living together in settlements. Mechanically speaking, a settlement is a term that refers to a node or closely linked group of nodes where players can rest from traveling, buy goods and services, find information, and interact with NPCs in order to advance the plot of the campaign. While in a settlement, the majority of what players will be doing will constitute discovery. The following section presents a guide to creating settlements that closely fit the type of pattern that best facilitates the feeling of a Last Odyssey setting.

• Advice
  • General Guidelines: Advice for when to create a new settlement, and their overall distribution.
• The Four Major Types
  • Villages: The smallest kind of settlement, where people live close to one another and to the land.
  • Towns: Larger agglomerations of people that exist to facilitate trade and commerce.
  • Cities: Region-defining settlements that may be home to hundreds of thousands of people.
  • Metropoli: The largest type of city, and a world unto itself.
• Other
  • Landmarks: Other types of settlements not included in the above list.