After having built around 20 areas in my mudding time, none smaller than 100 rooms, none bigger than 200, I've found myself challenged to come up with both exciting, populated and well-used areas, and varied ones, with new and unexplored themes. I tend to build cities of some sort. Not all of them are walled in, stone and mortar cities, but I can class most of them as some form of a city: a tree-top city of elves, the encampment of an army (tent city), dark warrens of goblins (underground city), a big city (a big city), the Keep of a sorceror (city of minions around him), a Coliseum (enough spectators to have its own area code), etc.
I was just wondering how many other quality ideas have been built on, or could be built on, that would spice things up. I realize that, unless it's a town or city of some sort, its usually just wilds, nature and what lives in it, terrain of some sort, but I'd love to hear ideas for non-city or unique-city areas that are creative.
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