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Hi folks, I've put together character sheets for Microlite5E as a proof of concept. They're not pretty, but I think they're functional. Each class is 2 pages, or 3 pages if it casts spells, including 20 levels of class features. As per Microlite5e, the class features are (basically)...

Thanks for your feedback, everyone. I must have missed the last alert that there'd been replies, so some of these are responses to comments from a couple of months ago. That does sound like a tough fight! Thanks for the feedback, meomwt. Are there things that you'd change about the monster...

Ware Jack O'Lantern, Elf-Child, for He Means to Do You Harm Elf fathers warn their children in stern voices that they must never, when a-wandering through the Kingswood, follow a light in the middle distance that seems to bob between the trees. For this light is no friendly will-o-wisp to...

Inspired by Dragonmarks The Last Words of Creation When the universe was almost done, someone or something saw that it could be made good. They spoke twelve words, but the last word roused a dark presence that lay below reality. That presence spoke its own word, that sent the twelve words...

THE GOOD WIFE The faithful of the King in Splendour came into the Shrouded Lands from all sides, and had much success against the creatures of the night. Foremost among them was tunath, who had as her weapon a meteoric sword - like the Last Light. When she drew it, they were blinded, and when...

I look forward to seeing it! ALMS OF THE TEMPLE INDIVISIBLE What surer way to win favour with Alberon than to aid his church in this realm? Such was the logic of the citizens of Shuttered, who flooded the holy places to labour for Heaven. These unskilled workers resulted in shoddy construction...

Introducing the piecepack (http://www.ludism.org/ppwiki/) to the Shrouded Lands. QUERTIK while the main deck of cards in the Shrouded Lands uses the Undying Cycle for its inspiration, it is the curious set of pieces called a quertik that is the most popular foundation for games. Just as a...

Thanks for the feedback, Xeviat. I'm looking forward to hearing what you think when you digest it further. Having Dex +5 and light armour be the (equal) highest AC in the game is a small departure from the core rules, where characters can buy plate armour for 1,500gp to get an AC of 18, whereas...

Character Sheets These character sheets have all the rules for playing as a particular class on the character sheet - including 20 levels of class features! Here's the barbarian character sheet as two images if you want to check it out quickly without downloading a whole PDF: Barbarian (page...

I think it's too long to expect players to read (I think the setting could be sketched in a couple of pages, and at times the prose can get a bit purple), but I enjoyed reading most of the first half and skimming the rest. The fact that you are trying to do something novel, but informed by...

The Three Ghost Crabs (13.11) When these ghost crabs were young, a stone giant pulled them from the rock and sand and breathed life into them - promising that they would be dynamic and impressive. Sure enough, the crabs - who have grown to the size of horses and who are fabled...

Confessions of the Smiling Men (21.00) Professional to the last, the Smiling Men record a great deal about each assassination target. Preparing a detailed biogaphy is part of the preparation for each assignment. After the kill, they also detail the nature of the murder. Upon the victim's...

Does anyone know what the average word count for a 32-page module was back then? Given art and maps and stat blocks and so on, it could be quite low. On the other hand, I know the text they used was quite small.

SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD The scholar and rakish traveller Taran Prenderghast has seen recent success with a book proposing Seven Wonders of the Modern World. Published in the Shuttered City under the patronage of the Doge, the "world" seems limited to the Shrouded Lands and the Twelve...

I've found myself writing some pieces that aren't hex-based, and so I thought I'd post this to remind myself why a webwork hexcrawl is such a good approach to gaming. A big benefit of the hex format (particularly with the addition of hooks) is that it pushes people towards 'playable' content...

The Annual Camel Race This is the starting point of Jahur's annual across-desert camel race. A great tent city opens for the week over which the race runs. The event is so popular, and Jahur so populous, that the tent city is itself the Shrouded Lands' fourth most populuous city for that week...

Huh, that could be quite elegant. What sort of monsters fall into the CR <5 range that would be opened up by this spell? Are griffons and hippogriffs CR 3 or lower? Are unicorns and firedrakes and rhinos CR 4 or lower? Those would all make neat mounts.

The Canals of Bergolast When the Burning Lands were green and rivers flowed across their length and breadth, the good folk of Bergolast built canals for their trading barges. In parts, they cut around mountains. In others, they built bridges over valleys so the canals could run flat. The...

Alien Filcher The traveller through the Forest of Abominations must endure many indignities, but none as frustrating as being burgled by a filcher. These creatures have tuber-shaped bodies, a single baffled eye, one stumpy leg and spindly arms. Their long fingers will pickpocket or grab a small...

Alien Marauder Twice as tall as a horse, bright blue with a large triangular mouth and tiny forward-facing eyes, the alien marauder is a disconcerting thing to be confronted by in the ashy grey wastes. The marauder winks in and out of existence, and only stabilises after gorging on flesh. When...