Killing players is an essential part of world-building. The villains are powerful and ruthless. The monsters are destructive and dangerous. Play with fire, kids, and you will get burned. They can buy plate mail but not plot armour. If you’re not comfortable being a bastard yourself, you at least need to be comfortable with creating some NPCs who are, and placing them in a dog eat dog, morally grey world.

Now this is interesting. What we have is a set of religions without faith. The people choosing to follow a certain deity (and there is a dizzying array of choices!) do so knowing that that god is real. How do people choose?

One thing I’d like to put out there is our rationale, our guiding principles when it comes to writing these adventures. For us, it comes from a place of stories.