20 Questions about Ironguard

Jeff at Jeff's Gameblog recommends answering these 20 questions for immediate world-building.

Here are the answers for the Ironguard Keep campaign:

1. What is the deal with my cleric's religion?  Modeled on the Norse, to include names.  Still, the Keep Chapel addresses most of them (not Loki, though).

2. Where can we go to buy standard equipment? Ironguard Keep.

3. Where can we go to get plate mail custom fitted for this monster I just befriended?  Ironguard Keep, though the Dwarven smiths there will make you pay (they are good and love a challenge, but are not fans of monsters in Dwarf-armor).

4. Who is the mightiest wizard in the land? Grandfather Favarro, the lich that supplies the Favarro merchant family with crafted magic items - each item quirky for the lich's amusement.  Most PCs will deal with Lord Magus Antoine Lebrun.

5. Who is the greatest warrior in the land? Locally, it is The Castellan Herr Gerhardt Rottmeyer. There are rumors of a great chaos champion to the east, however.

6. Who is the richest person in the land?  no one at Ironguard Keep, not even the PCs.  Nor Mario Favarro, though the Favarro family as a whole is loaded.

7. Where can we go to get some magical healing? Ironguard Keep is the nearest location

8. Where can we go to get cures for the following conditions: poison, disease, curse, level drain, lycanthropy, polymorph, alignment change, death, undeath?  Ironguard Keep, Grandfather Favarro, the Witches of the Webwood, settlements to the west.

9. Is there a magic guild my MU belongs to or that I can join in order to get more spells?  No guild as such.  Wizards use the apprentice and letter of introduction/recommendation model.

10. Where can I find an alchemist, sage or other expert NPC?  Settlements to the West.

11. Where can I hire mercenaries?  A few are always available at Ironguard Keep.

12. Is there any place on the map where swords are illegal, magic is outlawed or any other notable hassles from Johnny Law?   Not around Ironguard Keep.

13. Which way to the nearest tavern?  The Lion's Den at Ironguard Keep.

14. What monsters are terrorizing the countryside sufficiently that if I kill them I will become famous?  the dragons, the jabberwock. 

15. Are there any wars brewing I could go fight?  Chaos is encroaching, but it hasn't reached pitched battles - yet.

16. How about gladiatorial arenas complete with hard-won glory and fabulous cash prizes?  Settlements to the west, also one across the river.

17. Are there any secret societies with sinister agendas I could join and/or fight?  To join? Probably.  To fight, assuredly.  The Chaos cultists.

18.  What is there to eat around here?  Typical fare with a pseudo Germanic feel.

19. Any legendary lost treasures I could be looking for?  Saberhagen's Swords

20. Where is the nearest dragon or other monster with Type H treasure?  A red in the mountains to the west, a black in the swamps to the south, a green in the forests to the north.

(the back cover of B2: Keep on the Borderlands by Erol Otus)