This was originally going to be the next post in the player collaboration series from my game, but something interesting came up in Grant’s game on Saturday that I wanted to call some attention to. Before I can get to that, though, I need to give some context. Though I’ve […]
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As always, you can find a link to this entire series by following this link. A Collaborative Effort Credit where credit is due: this entire post, content and actual text, is a collaborative effort with Jenny. In fact this will be the first in a short series of posts where […]
As always, all the posts in this series can be found here. Finally Off the Starting Line On April 25, the setting I’ve been working on went from being a collection of notes to an actual, functional setting. We sat down and played our first game, and despite some Roll20 […]
As always, you can find all of the posts in this series here. Warming Up the Engines After about six months of poking at this world (which I still haven’t named – shame on me) I’ve decided to try running a game set in it. Fortunately, assembling my PC group […]
As usual, all of the posts in this series are collected here. A couple of notes: This post supersedes a couple of previous posts in the series. In particular, this covers the salvific events of the campaign world and its messianic figures, and it also removes Oath of Vengeance as […]
As always, you can find the entire series of these posts here. A quick cautionary note: this is a dark post in terms of its content. I’ve tried to keep it from being needlessly gratuitous, but Alchova is a bad place, -Peter A Brutal, Stinging Prison Alchova is not a nice […]
As always, the full series is available here. Untamed and Sun-Baked The Yuthi desert is an area of The Wilds in terms of my three broad categories of place for the setting. As one might expect from a desert, it is hot, dry, and sunny, but it is also beautiful […]
One of the more common requests for help I see in various forums is aspiring new GMs asking for advice on how to get started. It’s a daunting task, and it’s hard to know where to start. We’ve dispensed a lot of GMing advice via the podcast and blog over […]
As always, you can find all of the posts in this series here. A Nice Place to Live Laraloch-Thistivuel is a County in the terms of this setting, which means that it’s a civilized area where things are generally good. That doesn’t mean nobody ever has a bad day, but […]
As always, you can find the entire list of posts in this series by clicking this link. Up until this point, I’ve been writing about a lot of higher-level concepts, baseline assumptions, and other pipe-laying concerns, and while there’s still more of that to cover (various worldwide organizations, discussion of […]
As always, the full series can be found here. Earlier in this series, I mentioned that the second major component of D&D cosmology is other planes – worlds that exist in parallel to and overlap with each other. The 5e baseline assumes over two dozen of them, which is a […]
As always, the full list of posts in this series can be found here. In the last post of this series, I promised I’d spend some time explaining how clerics and paladins in the setting are different from the D&D norm, so I figured I’d get that in before I […]