Yeah, this confused me at first too — it looks like “POI” and “Features” are being used a bit interchangeably, but they’re not exactly the same thing.
From how I understand it:
- POI (Point of Interest) in the Event table is more of a broad discovery trigger. It just means the party finds something notable in that hex.
- The Features table (Terrain Generator) is what you actually use to define what that “something” is.
So in practice, when you roll a 6 → Discover POI, you would then:
→ Roll on the Features table to determine the specific type of POI (ruins, landmark, dungeon, etc.)
→ And if you hit that special case (like rolling a 6 again), you generate a settlement instead
That means settlements are basically a subset outcome of POIs, just handled with an extra rule.
So people aren’t really choosing between POIs vs Features — the Feature table is what fills in the POI result.