But as nice as pine forests and decidious forests are, would it really be so hard to have artists come up with more inventive and original landscapes? I dunno, just look at trees from around the world for weird ideas, or just come up with fantastical plants and rock formations. At least try to make it look like a place that doesn't exist on earth.
That's one of the things that annoys me about most of the RPGs out there...
We've got a terrific variety of flora here on earth. And some pretty wacky fauna, too. But, for some reason, every wilderness winds up looking like some generic pine forest sprinkled with bears and wolves and the occasional supernatural critter.
How about some hardwood forests? Or maybe you could model your pine trees after some
real pine trees, and we could at least get some variation to the trees. Or we could do some taiga, or some nice rolling hills, or some tundra, or some eroded badlands, or a real desert, how about a genuinely tropical rainforest, or some real swamps?
Sure... There's some variation from one game to the next... And, in something like an MMOG, some variation from one area to the next... But it really seems like most of the fantasy RPGs out there are just obsessed with forests full of generically-pine-looking trees.