[HoE] Setting Question

[dschniepp@ldd.net (Don Schniepp)]

     So what is the "average" group of people like in terms of settlements?

Are most towns surrounded by walls or some sort of protective barrier to
keep out outsiders?

I have this mental picture that all of the surrounding terrain is either
rocky or just one big desert.  I am assuming that there are forested areas
though somewhere or maybe streams.  I always think Mad Max where any sort
of liquid is more rare than a One-armed non-gamblin' Huckster in HoE.  

Say the posse walks into the "average" town.  Are we talking townsfolk that
are living in the ruins of what used to be a smaller-sized town? 

Don S.

"Facts are stupid things."  --Ronald Reagan, misquoting John Adams in a
speech to the Republican convention.