A meandering journey into the world of fantasy.
Introducing List - art by Jin Woo Park OK, I need to get this down - I've been procrastinating about writing this play-report for a while now. We had a third player join us, and he randomly made a character which happened to be a mage-apprentice with a spell! =====Dawn and Syn come to meet … Continue reading The Fearless – session 4
yes... skyrim 🙂 So instead of trying to deal with the "Central Massif" area, I've divided up the regions according to landscape - the Highlands (in Central Massif and shadow of the spire), The Forest, and the shadowlands. First on the docket is the Highlands - the mountain range that cuts across the entire Broken … Continue reading The Highlands – #tenmonstersetting
by Unknown... So we've come back to continue our game. We decided that all characters would start out "random" to some extent or other. Since Syn is the only surviving character, and she'd decided to get away as far as possible from Bill and Bills-Fall, we started the session with only the one character, but … Continue reading The Fearless – session 3
by Giuseppe Parisi Back to the Wastelands. This time around in our #10monstersetting we've gone out into the wastes. Once again we have some strange portals and a few factions... Mainly the "magic school" up north and the "undead(?)" taking over further south. But the main feel I want is arid desolation. I'm mainly talking … Continue reading The Wastelands – #tenmonstersetting
Swamp Dragon by Calvin Chua So we come back to our motley crew of.. three commoners who have wandered into a nasty swamp. Currently they have a rough camp at the base of the drop (a massive cliff) and nearby a freshwater swamp forest - the drained sea.===== Aedra is fuming at the death of … Continue reading The Fearless – Session 2
Expulsion - by Thomas Cole It has been hard trying to find imagery of what The Shatter would look like. Portals, broken land, broken everything. I think this painting by Mr Cole grabbed me - water, desert, sunshine, night. All at the same time. I think this would be a perfect view of the Shatter. … Continue reading The Shatter – #tenmonstersetting
Peasants, by Lorenzo Mastroianni With the random generation going along swimmingly, I decided that it was time to get some actual exploration of this setting "on the ground" as it were. =====Our four unlucky contestants wereBysen: a tough, callous woodsman Aedra: a strong, yet forgiving miner.Syn: the pot-bellied, simple-minded Butcher.Elene: the cautious washer-woman with hidden … Continue reading The Fearless – Session 1
by Ward Lindhout This time i'm focusing back on the Rust Plains, giving them a little more depth by taking a pass with the #tenmonstersetting filter. Its been pointed out that I didn't actually explain what the #tendmonstersetting experiment is - basically you take 10 monsters (given a specific set of types - humanoid, undead, … Continue reading The Rust Plains – #tenmonstersetting
So it's time to take a closer look at the drained sea. A lovely idea was suggested (again by the OSR discord) which was the #10monstersetting. Which I think is just perfect for giving a particular area a good theme/feel. I might not do this exactly (as I'm going to be choosing from a variety … Continue reading The Drained Sea – #tenmonstersetting
Don't know who did this... OK. So its done? Not really. I have a complete map now, and a large number of potential encounters/interactions. But they are the results of a RNG... I need to still do a little massaging of things to try to make some coherent factions and places. But let's get the … Continue reading The Broken Land
Wandering Wombat 