ideas for new campaign

-1 continent for western Europe, another few continents for other inspired cultures.

-6 major culture areas in the western continent, with subareas for each:  Medania, Annoria, Callania, Entalia, Nordenia, and Ilenia.  These would correspond roughly to Spain, Britain, France, Germany, Scandinavia, and Italy.  So there would be the Four Kingdoms of Medania, the Eight Kingdoms of Annoria, the Kingdom of Callania, the Grand Imperium of Entalia, the Three Kingdoms of Nordenia and the Principalities of Ilenia.

-Demihumans exist but their settlements on the western continent are small, so they are rare in the west.  They do not generally like to live around men for various reasons.

-The races will be somewhat simple.  The Northmen are the people of most of Annoria, Entalia and Nordenia, as well as part of the other three kingdoms.  The Southmen are the people of most of Medania, Ilenia, and Callania.  The Southmen do not generally live in the North, even though the Northmen have moved in some numbers to the south.  The Southmen are more mixed as they also have mixed with the Desert Men of the continent to the south. 

-History:  There were once two great empires of men on this continent.  The Stone Men in the North and the Cavern Men in the south.  However, these bronze age civilizations were lost and no one knows how to read their writing, so not much is known about them – except for the fact that they are probably the predecessors to the modern Northmen and Southmen respectively.  To further complicate things, another population known as the High Men came from the east after the ancient empires fell and set up other empires.  The northern one split into warring groups and eventually fell, while the south became more and more powerful.  It eventually conquered much of the continent, as well as lands on the continents to the east and south, ruling over the Desert Men and the Civilized East.  However, they eventually were more or less assimilated into the local populace and in an ill understood period of chaos the empire collapsed.  Some people have attributed this to invasions from warlords originating in Entalia and Nordenia, but this is only part of the story and may not have been decisive in the collapse whatsoever.  Nevertheless, it seems clear that many modern aristocratic houses descend from either Northern warlords or High Men of the last age.

-Races:  High Men (mostly assimilated but some aristocratic houses are relatively unmixed), Northmen, Southmen, Hillmen (uncivilized tribes of the south), Clansmen (uncivilized tribes of the north), Men of the Holy Realm (northern Civilized East), Men of the Great Cult lands (southern Civilized East), Nomads of the Steppes and Wastes (East), Desert Men, White Eyes (Far North peoples on western and eastern continent), etc.