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A Days Rest? Just for you, Fimmtiu. * * * * * As they passed through the Hazar Gate into Shar Jehna a warrior told Ajax and Corum the announcement from the town’s Grey Council. The dead were to be honored at sunrise. The rest of the day would be a celebration of the victory. Ajax staggered...

Assume the mounts are equal and do oppossed Ride checks. Make it a 1 mile race, with a Ride check for each quarter mile. Highest overall total wins. You give the race a full description using each set of rolls to guide your description. One method. Tormenet

Threshel: Welcome! Many thanks for the kind words about the setting. You will be seeing more of it during the DC-MD-VA ENWorld gameday. (Insert foreboding theme music here.) It draws heavily on the Hellenistic world, particularly the Greek-Bactrian kingdom in Afghanistan, circa 300 BC. Stick...

Other. Michael Grant is a history writer. Alot of his stuff deals with the Hellenistic period my homebrew is based on. Amin Maalouf wrote The Crusades Through Arab Eyes. The book is full of double dealing and campaign ideas. I just have to read a few pages and I can map out a campaign. *...

As a homeowner with two kids, I give them two thumbs way, way up. I no longer have time for painting. Plus, the kids would just take the paint. I do dislike the random pack, but not enough to stop me from buying alot of them. Tormenet

In Shar Jehna Looking at the row of corpses, Cato asked, “Which one is it?” “Huh? No, boy, it’s not there,” the man replied. “They’ve taken it to his wife. All the Ionian notables have gone to his home.” Thanking the man, Cato briskly headed in the direction of Shar Jehna’s Ionian district...

Touched and a murder Ajax drove his weapon into the corpse. Even with a xiphos pinning it to the ground, the creature tried to push itself up. The hit was telling though and the creature again collapsed to the dust. Confusion reigned as the companions watched their butchered foes rise. The...

Sorry for the delay in getting to this. Children, job search, and buying a new home are really messing with my gaming habit. :D "These are not men, they are demons." DM: Tormenet SLOT: Morning (AM) GAME: D&D 3.5 TEASER: The shrill death pleas have stopped; the enemy partisans are all...

The Tadu attack and the plot grows complicated After a few minutes, Brother Ismail stopped at one of the goat-tracks that led into the mountains surrounding the Shar Jehna. He turned and faced Cato; the two knew each other well from their work at the Sanctum. “This trail widens a short...

An anthropomorphic race for my homebrew, please comment on the racial traits. The goal is a kobold-like race with a weak constitution (frail) that is offset by being hard to hit (swift). It should be LA +0. CANID RACIAL TRAITS * -2 Constitution, +1 Wisdom, +1 Intelligence, +1 Dexterity. *...

Monkey God Enterprises' book From Stone to Steel lists Stone Age equipment. I'm not near my copy right now but I think it has suggestions for campaigning in that era as well. Tormenet

Drawing the Lines Last week Naram, the newly installed qadi of Heta arrived raging at the fortified mud brick gateway that is Shar Jehna’s main entrance. Diyala, qadi of Shar Jehna, was visibly stunned when her offer of hospitality was refused. Tired of unceasing revenge, the Duranni...

Of arms I sing and the heroes sing in me, Avasara (You are the Creator, the One, the Unlimited, the Formless Truth) and through me tell their story. Tell first of whom we speak. speak of the heroes living in Shar Jehna. Ajax lawbreaker and orphan due to a Magistrate’s edict laboring in the...

Dungeonmastercal has a good point here. I looted a town named Fall of Stones from a real world map, it has a bunch of rocks in its town center that look like they fell from the sky. Here in Virginia a map can produce some great names as well: Hemlock Spring's, Dog Slaughter Run, Dark Hollow...

I’ve listed some generators below that should help. Definitely pick a theme for each culture and stick with it. I have found that player’s remember familiar names with more ease than random syllable strings. Many real world names have meaning to those who speak the language. Hindu Kush means...

Are good and evil cultures clearly defined in your campaign or is there a lot of gray? As a player do you like clearly defined cultural alignments? A player in my campaign took me to task because he felt there was too much overlap. In my homebrew, the Ionian Bastiyaani are a settled people...

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It is a good spell for Tarzaning across those nasty pits. I also used it to ambush a column of bady guys. They were approaching a bridge and we set up on the far side. We went into a Rope Trick and I told my familiar to fly under the viewing portal when the enemy reached a certain point. The...

I try not to interrupt. My player's are far too entertaining for me to break in with mundane things likes the campaign. :D As a DM, I have found myself doing one thing that breaks the moment. Sometimes, I'll mention something of what is going on behind the screen--such as the result of a...