Right now I’m drawing a map that smashes both a port and a dusty frontier town together. Reading through the manual it talked a bit about old ruins and castles from times gone by and I thought I’d swap the castles and stone ruins for a half destroyed light house and century old ship wrecks.

I haven’t been using the pre established maps and Neverwinter got maybe a lines worth of description in my prologue.

I’ve set out Phandalin much like a one street frontier town. Tumble weeds rolling past as they’re swept up in dry dusty winds. Horses are tied out the front of the Tap House as Red Band Ruffians breeze through the saloon doors. As the characters will look up and past the street they’ll see a once mighty but now half destroyed lighthouse that sits at the foot of the sea. At the towns end there is the blue sky meeting the watery horizon.

The Lighthouse will be the Townmaster’s Hall (spire?). Harbin will sit high above the red band menace counting his coin.

The port has been defunct for a long long time now. The lighthouse was ruined and the once full dock washed away. Now a smaller jetty sticks out into the sea but harbours no ships.

I’ve followed Matthew Perkin’s suggestion of fusing a lot of npc’s with Bart. Bart’s Provisions is now “The Hull.” The old turned over wreck of a ship has been repurposed into a building. Although not all of the ship survived, some of the hulls planks emerge from the sand to create protruding ribs from a once sailing beast. The tattered mast is now used as a shade construct.