Editing Hex by Hex (section)

==Bandit Run==
In this hex the Old King's Road travels just past the foothills of the Dragon Back Mountains. Trade along this route is continually hampered by bandit gangs. The many caves that riddle this broken region are perfect for temporary hideouts, making the area chronically lawless.

Merchants rarely travel this route unless absolutely necessary, cutting off most trade to the East, isolating the region and promoting the abandonment of smaller settlements inland of the more bustling regions to the West.

The bandits are virtually immune from the law, but are still kept in check by dwindling targets, inter-gang warfare and occasional raids by goblinoid tribes from the larger mountains extending Southeast. The gangs have become increasingly desperate in recent years and their highway robberies have evolved to murderous, pillaging raids farther afield. Their targets have expanded to small settlements for several hexes around.