The Greenbelt map? What kind of terrain?

[ElyasRavenwood]

I noticed on page 14 of pathfinder #31, the map of the greenbelt has three colored terrains. The forest terrain of the narlmarches is easy to identify. What kind of terrain is the light green shading around Fort Oleg? Is it rolling grassy fields and farmlands? What is the darker green shaded terrain further south? Is it the Kamelands a swamp?

Thanks

[evilash]

ElyasRavenwood wrote:

I noticed on page 14 of pathfinder #31, the map of the greenbelt has three colored terrains. The forest terrain of the narlmarches is easy to identify. What kind of terrain is the light green shading around Fort Oleg? Is it rolling grassy fields and farmlands? What is the darker green shaded terrain further south? Is it the Kamelands a swamp?

The light green terrain is grasslands/plain, and the darker green with bumps in the south is hills.

[ElyasRavenwood]

Thanks evilash. Do these hills have trees on them or are they grassy? do these hills have small copses of trees with meadows in between? Thanks. I live in Vermont, and i have trouble imagining hills without maple pine and other trees. I know one hundred and twenty years ago the vermont hills had just sheep and grass and no trees on them, but that was before my time so to speak.

[Geeky Frignit]

ElyasRavenwood wrote:

I noticed on page 14 of pathfinder #31, the map of the greenbelt has three colored terrains. The forest terrain of the narlmarches is easy to identify. What kind of terrain is the light green shading around Fort Oleg? Is it rolling grassy fields and farmlands? What is the darker green shaded terrain further south? Is it the Kamelands a swamp?

Thanks

From what I gather, the far southwestern portion of the forested area is swamp that begins the Hooktongue Slough. That's based on the encounters in that area during Rivers Run Red.

[thenovalord]

ElyasRavenwood wrote:

I noticed on page 14 of pathfinder #31, the map of the greenbelt has three colored terrains. The forest terrain of the narlmarches is easy to identify. What kind of terrain is the light green shading around Fort Oleg? Is it rolling grassy fields and farmlands? What is the darker green shaded terrain further south? Is it the Kamelands a swamp?

Thanks

i been going with

-bits of variety
-let a pc narrate something about the land
-having it suit the situation, or not (eg this grass is well cropped by elk and so isnt tall enough for your entangle spell to work!!)
-a little rocky pebbly if you feel you need a ride-based mini skill challenge
- a few scattered small ravines if the encounter you randomly rolled up needs somesuch thing
- a bit more damp and wet than normal cos youve never attacked a party with a gaint leech in any campaign
-very flat and bare so you can have the party enagaged by bandits at longbow maximum range and watch the parties glorious cavalry charge utterly flounder!!

in short

its up to you and your players.
let the ideas roll
this is not your normal adventure

[James Jacobs]

ElyasRavenwood wrote:

Thanks evilash. Do these hills have trees on them or are they grassy? do these hills have small copses of trees with meadows in between? Thanks. I live in Vermont, and i have trouble imagining hills without maple pine and other trees. I know one hundred and twenty years ago the vermont hills had just sheep and grass and no trees on them, but that was before my time so to speak.

The plains are pretty open, with grass and isolated copses of trees.

The hills, on the other hand, have more trees. They're not totally covered, but trees should be pretty common in the hills. They're just not so dense that they're non-stop forest.