@BigBadOverlord If you find bones anywhere you get to keep them. On the sidewalk, in a casket buried 6 feet underground, inside a living human thigh, etc.
Old Man Opinion Incoming:
Paladins are lawful good.
The other paladins in modern gaming are super cool and fun character concepts, but they just feel like either specialty clerics, off brand druids, or variant spellswords.
In Breton lore, werewolves were believed never to attack musicians and were even said to flee upon hearing the binioรน or Breton bagpipe! #Faustianfriday
Almost died in Bluetspur Badlands
Makab Mountain, cyclopean ruin
Death is older in lands such as these
Younger than the creatures lurkinโ down beneath
Misty roads, take me home
From this place
I donโt belong!
Back to Darkon
Even Borca
Take me home, misty roads
Probably Final Fantasy.
I tend to start my campaigns very linear at the low levels and then have the world open up. I usually give the PCs a cool vehicle at some point.
There's usually an early "Disc 1" villain that eventually gets defeated to reveal the real villain.