alhoon wrote:I simply make the world larger. Differences between CR6-9 are not a problem for me and I explain it with isolationism. I.e. villagers in Barovia have not heard of gunpowder and the guys in towns don't know how to produce it.
That is how I do it, my core is the size of the US. That way it makes sense to have so many terrain types, enough prey animals etc. My RL is a pretty subtle in some places. You could drop the average Romanian Peasant in Bavoria and he would see few changes.
Sure, there are rumors of werewolves and vampires but very few have actually seen any. If he believed in them before than he feel vindicated, if he didn't he still just sees them as rumors unless he runs into one.
A French city dweller would see few changes in Richemulot. The wererats are hidden and denied by most of the inhabitants. My version of Herself is very much into "Maintaining the Masquerade" as is almost every other wererat in the domain, they don't want to scare away the prey.
That is only true in some places. A peasant dropped in Forlorn will notice the differences quickly due to the goblyns. Ghosts are an everyday thing in Mordent. Easan the Mad's domain is basically the Twilight Zone.
In short how much RL differs from the real world varies from place to place .Some appear very much like the real world, some are really weird.