As always, you can find a link to the entire series here. Note: this material is a bit more “adult” than most of the other posts in this series. Krissi is exploring some heavy, messy, difficult stuff with her character, and while it makes for really interesting and worthwhile material, […]
setting design
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As always, you can find all of the posts in this series here. Where the Story Is My players have been inhabiting the town of Lostant since the beginning of the campaign, and by now they have uncovered sufficient information about the place that I feel I can write a […]
As always, you can find links to the entire series here. Another quick note: Life Has Intervened, and while I’d still like to do collaborative blog posts with my other three players, they’re going to have to wait until things get a little less crazy. Coiled Among the Rocks The […]
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 […]
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 […]