All the planning can be done on this thread (that's what this thread is for) - I just want to make sure that it doesn't get chatty.
Please do your planning here, so everyone can see it (unless of course it is some secret diversion) - there are new people to Barrow Downs gaming coming on board, and I want them to see how people here think things through.
Just take all the personal chat to PM. (With the exception of course of - 'Gosh, Pio! Great post!!' [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
About the grasslands:
Haradwaith is thought to be much like Africa. While there are great deserts there - most of the living is done in the parts outside the desert which support life.
Africa has great
savannah grasslands interspersed among the more arid areas (though they too suffer during the dry seasons). Hence, where my character and her tents are gathered at present, there is a grassland with small game, roots and other such edibles to eat. And waterholes for the people and animals to use.
There are of course the vast stretches of desert that surround and push in against life - much like the Great Eye.