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Ben Franklin is never mentioned in Northern Crown, although there is a 17th century analog of him in the character of Chiron Franklyn, a natural philosopher/wizard who is quite clearly inspired by the historical Franklin. So the confusion is totally understandable!

No. Northern Crown is set in 1666. And it's very easy to ignore the magical and alt-history elements and play a straight 17th-century historical campaign. It has tons of cultural and historical background info about the Puritans, the French, the Dutch, the Mohawk, a map of the region, all the...

"You meet in a tavern..." In the world of SecondLife, a tavern stands upon a high ridge above the sea. It's a place where gamers and player characters meet to talk about gaming, to form gaming groups, and just enjoy a cup of tea by a roaring fire. When you're ready to game, I've got 3-D...

Boy, do I sympathize. I'm in my forties, I teach full-time, I have a spirited little toddler, but our weekly gaming night with my wife and two of our buddies still happens maybe three out of four weeks. We get some takeout food, put the toddler to bed, and game just a couple of hours, enough for...

Northern Crown has stats for 15 historically-based cannons, periers, mortars, and culverins. There are rules for loading times, effects of both roundshot and smallshot ammo, smoke, muzzle flash, noise, misfires, and fouls.

My top three: cure spells detect good/evil detect magic

I ran this one very successfully as a d20M campaign for almost two years: The Wild, The Beautiful, and the Damned: This is the teaser: "Nina Delmare, amnesiac foundling turned homicide detective in the college town of Cantabrigia, is on the trail of a murderer who is stalking homeless men...

So I'm designing a tavern, and I'm working on detailing the garderobe (bathroom). So, ENWorld wits, give me some pithy scrawls to put on the walls. I'm wondering what you'd see on the walls in a vanilla fantasy tavern, the kind that "you meet in." The only rules are: Rated PG No WotC product...

The kind of woodsman PC you describe could be built in Northern Crown by using the scout base class (not the same as the WotC scout) and the frontier legend prestige class. The frontier legend class was designed to give PCs access to Davy Crockett-like abilities regarding wilderness travel...

Darn, that really felt like a sale. ;) Seriously, Nyambe's geography has very little bearing on a Northern Crown campaign unless the PCs actually go to Nyambe. What excites me about being able to link my campaign to Chris Dolunt's marvelous Africa is the rich backstory it gives to Cimmaron PCs...

Sorry I've been silent on this issue but Adamant, as far as I know, retains the only license for NC supplemental materials. I can't really endorse a web fanzine as you describe, but I'm very happy to hear your continued enthusiasm for my game world and I'm always hanging around on these boards...

Gosh that sounds a lot like Naomi Novik's Temeraire novels, except that her books take place in the Napoleonic era.

:( This is sad news, as my wife and I have been taking road trips up there for years -- such a friendly place, with a great selection, helpful staff, and always something happening -- a real clubhouse atmosphere. I'm surprised they're going under, because it always seemed so lively. I guess...

Ha -- this just happened in one of my games on Monday. A player rolls up a 1st-level fighter, joins a party of 2nd- and 3rd-level PCs. They meet him as a prisoner in a jail block where they've been dumped by a group of duergar. They overpower a guard, bust out right into a group of orcs the...

The NY Times has a feature article on firefighter Phil Pfister, the World's Strongest Man. Gives you an idea of what a PC with a very high Strength might look like in terms of build. This guy can lift 300-pound boulders, flip over a car -- pretty incredible. Link Here So in d20 System terms...

On that note, Adamant Entertainment doesn't have plans to publish any more issues of Franklyn's Almanack, the NC support zine. I did some work on Spectral Boston this summer, but real life (and Second Life, more on that soon) are getting in the way of my Northern Crown work. Again, thanks for...

I seem to remember hearing about 1492 back when Northern Crown was in development, and admiring the great premise for it. Then it disappeared. Thanks for the praise, you guys!

Do a google search on the following illustrators: N C Wyeth Howard Pyle You should find some classic pirate illustrations there.

Jason and the Argonauts (1963) The Thief of Baghdad (1940)

I have played Decipher's LOTR -- one or two brief campaigns, before we drifted back into D&D. Here's my take on it. The production values are very good, the layout beautiful, with still images from the films taking a prominent role. The core rulebook is not very well organized. Character...