So, in the campaign that I've started in, I rolled up a Kimmerian, and I ended up choosing to be one of the Kimmerians from the ancient isolated underground city of Krimmea, because, hey, ancient isolated underground city.

That said, I didn't find much about the actual location itself, aside from some rough history (isolationists escaping the Green Death, only recently started interacting with the upper world again, secretive, possible otherwordly influences, etc.)

Is Krimmea based on something specific from literature (like Leng, the mythos elements, etc.), or is it something created by the author out of whole cloth?  I know the author likes to keep a lot of this vague so as to be very adaptable to any campaign or style, but I was curious if there was anything more about it out there that might be of interest.

For example: the Krimmeans, are they 'regressed' Kimmerians from all their isolation and limited resources, or do they fancy themselves the 'civilized' Kimmerians from ages ago, still holding to their loftier, more 'cultured' ways apart from the rabble that scamper about topside?  Is it a warren of maze-like corridors stretching for miles, or is it a set of vast, open caverns with spired towers reaching up across the gulf to the ceiling above? etc, etc.

Again, if there really isn't anything more specified about it that's fine too, but as I said previously, I do loves me some lore, so if there is anything out there already, I'd love to take a look.

mabon5127 wrote:

Anyway I was wondering if any GMs did likewise with those in their groups beginning a new campaign or at a convention? 

Wow.  Well, while I have certainly in the past created custom minis for good friends and such, I don't think i've ever quite customized anything else quite like that!

However, if you are of the sort of person that likes to do that sort of thing, props and little touches in a game can be a lot of fun, and really enhance the experience.

I have always loved Call of Cthulhu, and most of the recent campaigns i've done have been with various small props here and there.  We have a old antique index card file box I had found, for each item, mystical whosit, strange book, or unknown artifact the party came across, I would hand them a card with a photo of the item, and an applicably-generic description of what it looked like or what it appeared to be.  The player carrying the card was the one carrying the item.  The items would sometimes get left behind if a player was unable to show up, or sometimes I'd take the card back and replace it with an updated version once they had found out some more aspcts of the items.

And, of course, if they felt like just keeping them in the safe deposit box they ended up getting, it'd quitely go back in the wooden file box until needed again.

But sometimes it doesn't always have to be props.  In my CoC campaigns, I'd also have the players come up with, in addition to their characters, three people, places or things in their character's lives that were important to them somehow.  I'd use those to weave into the campaign as it went along, to help make the experience feel more like an organic world, where things were happening to people not just because of randomness, but because of reasons.  One of the character's ex-wife had remarried to one of the key Bad Guys in the campign, altho of course, they didn't know that he was so at the beginning of the campaign.  Often I'd try and tie location