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Let’s get this show on the road! I’m going to be running the first Shrouded Lands adventure sometime in July (I can’t game more than once a month due to babies, hence this wonderful wonderful wonderful thread giving me my gaming fix) with the Adventurer Conqueror King System (B/X D&D hack)...

More detailed thoughts later but my 5ed playtest game finished a few hours ago and the players went through it (we had 6, two rogues) like a hot knife through butter. About 30 dead orcs including both chiefs, one PC went to negative one, another to zero, the rest never hit negatives. No subtlety...

Writing on a smartphone forgive errors and brevity. I like the no horse (fits with Shuttered ballooning) and Sigil bits but think we have to scrape the serial numbers off of Planescape stuff and I did mention a warhorse market in Eastbridge... The last horses Information about 17.17 Here in...

I've been working on getting prepped out for our playtest session. It's been a LONG time since I've DMed a proper game of D&D what with two kids, FATE, playing rather than DMing, running d20 Conan instead of D&D and letting my history geek side get out of control and run very mundane...

On the Origin of Ogres Additional information about Hex 26.01 Sanglorian's post about the Caves of Chaos made me realize that nobody has ever said a word about ogres. Let's fix that. This one was written in a bit of haste as I've got to run to excuse any typos. The first ogres were born in the...

The Eyeless Watchers Hex 34.00 Carved into the rock of these tall peaks are statues of the dwarf lords of old. They are tall and fine limbed for the lords were not as common folk, but now they stare eyeless from their shattered faces down at Titan’s Skull (33.00), the fortress city of the...

Sanglorian: I’m holding my first 5ed playtest session this Sunday and I’ll be using your fluff for that and incorporating what happens during our session into your write-up draft. For the female dwarves, I basically stole ideas from Pratchett when it came to dwarvish gender so it’s taboo for a...

Was out of town for the weekend for ancestral rites for my grandfather in-law (which sound a lot more interesting than they are...). I've got some ideas for orcish religion that are based on mashing together Korean feng shui, the Princess Bride and an alternate history timeline about yams but...

I don't think that there is a font big enough to express the "no" for this idea. That's basically baking in everything wrong with 3.5ed CLW wands into the game.

The Bridges East and West Additional information about Hex 17.17. Using this thingie again: Serendipity: City Generator ( With Castle Tarengael lying in on an island in its center, two great bridges span the River of Crystal Waters here. They are the foundation of much of the wealth of the...

Hmmm, looking carefully at the map now, I might have to redraw the river to put the Waker Worms in the right place, but for now I've played them at 24.19 so that the other fork of the river passes through where they are. This will be noted in the next version of the compilation. And new map...

Haven't finished reading it yet. The hit point economy would have to be overhauled either by WotC or by my own houserules for me to play this longterm, all my other annoyances are just little things that I don't think would be difficult to change. I'm enjoying the overall set-up...

Ooops. Fixed now.

Sorry for not adding any new hexes in a bit, but my Shrouded Lands time has been getting eaten up with compiling all of the setting information. Here's the newest compilation which includes LOTS of new hexes (everything except the three newest entries) and the Kingswood. I've also included all...

How to get file: Go to the customer service tab that says My Stuff, then go back to the search thingie and search for D&D next playtest and then it shows up.

And Command has been returned to its rightful state. All is well with the world. Seriously, I'm loving the number of no-roll things, little bits of awesome that you can just DO without having to roll a damn d20 for them, stuff like dwarves being immune to poison end of story. As much as I love...

Hmmmm, don't see any email address on his blog. What might be easiest is to just use his writing as inspiration for the area around Thring but don't copy any of his writing, sort of like what chutup did with the zoo in Shuttered that used an idea from Vornheim and what we've done with a...

OK, I'm not too familiar with the details of the CC licenses but it seems we have to: 1. Give him credit. Shouldn't be a problem. 2. Be noncommercial. Check. 3. Use a same or similar license. Wouldn't our license fall under similar? In any case I could just ask him, I'm sure he wouldn't mind :)...

The bit about roll a d20 or take 10 sound good. It gives the thieves an edge without having to deal with modifier inflation or the issue of having things that challenge the thief be so damn hard that nobody else has even a chance at them.

I've mentioned Rolang's brilliant blog a couple times as a source of inspiration for some of my posts. Well Rolang had one post ("Bring It") in which he asked his readers to post their ideas for blog posts and a while ago I added in: "How about five hexes that can be placed around a large...