A Map For a New Campaign

Well, I'm slogging away at the setup for whatever campaign inevitably comes after my party TPK:s again (or the world ends, there's like 4 world-enders about now). So here's a not completed map (spoilers?!). Yes, "Västerås" is a joke. It's a city in Sweden, but there's a certain fantasy series that has a suspciously similar …

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The Possession Campaign

I've though on this before (several times), but after Cavegirl/Emmy Allen told an entertaining story in the OSR discord the other day the idea returned (if in a slightly different form). The core idea is simple: the player characters are ghosts or spirits of some kind, able to possess a body to use as they …

World Timeline

While pondering dwarves the other day, I decided that I needed a general timeline for my world. So I made one. It's based on the dragon year count, because the dragons would be the ones that remember the furthest past. It's nice to have something to place ancient happenings in. It can make the world …

Tools of a Ritual Mage

So, here's some info on what ritual mages use in my setting, both lore and stats. They are defenitely the most tool-heavy of all wizardly types. How Do They Magic? Basically, the orthodox style of ritual mages abuse the powers of dead gods, through prodding their subconcious memories of prayers long gone. Their rites are …

Impact of Constitution Against Disease

Well, based on a few posts on Crossing the Verse, here's some stuff on how a population could be affected by racial Constitution modifiers, and the resulting Constitution score/bonus' effect on the saves vs. disease. I am for the most part assuming that the populace in general is generated with 3d6 in order, for simplicity's …

Five Years Later (DH2)

Here's the intermediate post between the TPK in my campaign and the new run. Two non-present characters survived, and one 13 year old heir was sent away before the suicidal waking of the dragon... The Awakening The great pale dragon Bozorghmer -e Asetbedad was awakened. It seems to have been some kind of insane doomsday …

Medieval Demographics

Okay, so here's a bunch of data on demographics. Population Age Distribution Okay, so the population age distribution shifts quite drastically with the living conditions of a country. When times are harsh over 50% of the entire population is 15 or below, dying off along an exponential curve. In very good conditions, we reach an …

Population Distribution Over Character Levels

Here's an interesting thought exercise: what would the distribution of character levels be over an entire population? I think most people can agree that the majority would be low- or unleveled characters. My guess would be that a normal distribution could be applied. My assumptions were the following: the mean level is 0.5, with the same …

Some Drawings of People

I felt inspired to draw some of the people my players have encountered in the campaign so far... so I did. These are the ones I ended up finishing. Done in some kind of fiber-tib ink pen and some promarkers, which are blendable colored ink pens. Something like that.

Jumping on the 20 Questions Bandwagon

Because it seems fun. So let's do all four of the 20 question sets I found... This will be freaking long... Jeff Rients' What is the deal with my cleric's religion? All gods are real, and either some kind of primordial beings, a accumulation of human souls, or the machinations of angels and/or demons. Pick …