4e Campaign Setting Starting Point
 

Those of you Ref'ing and/or playing in a 4e campaign, where in the world is it starting out?

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Most of my players surprised me and came up with non-US and even generally non-military characters. We ended up with one US infantryman (who was willing to desert to survive at this point), a Polish doctor, a Russian agent who had been masquerading as a Pole for several years, and an American... uh... traveler who was... uh... on his own agenda (mostly griefing the party and anyone he could find, he didn't last long).

With that in mind, I pushed the initial starting point a bit further behind the front lines and started them just outside of Lodz, where they were all laying low while the last tanks rumbled by. For a little while they went off in pursuit of individual goals they had, but this quickly turned into them needing and finding patronage from the local Polish border guard unit, which kind of anchored them around the immediate area, where they have so far remained (over 3 months of game time and over a year of IRL time)

Standard Polish start near Kalisz. I have a fairly wide range of players and characters - mostly American, but also includes a Brazilian, a Norwegian, and a melancholy old Ukrainian civilian who lost his wife in the war, and survives on the sundries he sells out of his wooden cart pulled by an old mule (he's my favorite, naturally).

I posted a lot on this earlier; I'm modding my own version of the Swedish theater. Partly to keep Poland for my v1 or v2 games, and v4 in Sweden. "Don't cross the streams", I guess.

That's kind of my thought also. Sweden wasn't really an option in the older versions, so it's new content (like an expansion pack almost), so why not embrace it? At least for veteran players. For newbies, Poland is hard to resist.

I'm running a Poland based game but I've prompted the initial characters to all be members of the same military unit (4th Squadron/12th Cavalry) and we started with that unit being decimated. Where they go exactly in Poland is something that will evolve over the next few sessions.