As part of the session zero for the Song of Ice and Fire RPG, the players are tasked with building a noble family to be the centre of the game - they can be attendants, young nobles, venerable maesters, and so on.The catch is, they are any of the big noble families we pay much … Continue reading RPGaDay 2020 prompt 14 – Banner
Category: ostromarka
Late to the party: RPGaDay 2019 prompt 19
"Scary" I've never been too good at injecting spooky, scary or fear elements into my games, but I'm trying to do better. It's supposed to be a big-ish part of Ostromarka, since I wanted to throw a bit of a Cthuloid feel to it. If anyone has any tips for me, I'm all ears. I'll … Continue reading Late to the party: RPGaDay 2019 prompt 19
Draft One Page Campaign Opener – Ostromarka
Legend says the Wastes were created in only one night, when arcane rituals and dead gods warred over those lands once known as the Satrapies.Today, the far eastern edge of the Empire is the Ostromarka, the last part of civilisation before the demon-infested Wastes, eager to swallow up the brave and the stupid. The city … Continue reading Draft One Page Campaign Opener – Ostromarka
Old Gods versus New Gods
This is an idea I think I've formed for both Ostramarka and the Old West. There should be some form of conflict between worshippers of the Old and the New. In both settings, there's sort of a frontier tension to that too. Ostromarka is about being on the edge of civilisation with only demonic wasteland … Continue reading Old Gods versus New Gods
Where to next?
At some point, I want to sit down and properly flesh out some more of my ideas, but who has the time? Ostromarka - I'm happy with where this setting has ended up I think. It needs a bit of work, but I managed to run one session, stealing from a one-shot Forgotten Realms game … Continue reading Where to next?
RPGaDay2018 – Day 13 to 19
Onto part 3 / week 3 but I'm still behind! Oh well, it'll get finished eventually. #RPGaDay2018 - Day 13! DESCRIBE how your play has evolved I think the main change has been familiarity with the hobby and what it involves, and going from slow and nervous start to awesome tabletop badass is natural after … Continue reading RPGaDay2018 – Day 13 to 19
RPGaDay2018 – Day 13 to 19
Onto part 3 / week 3 but I'm still behind! Oh well, it'll get finished eventually.DESCRIBE how your play has evolvedI think the main change has been familiarity with the hobby and what it involves, and going from slow and nervous start to awesome tabletop badass is natural after 18+ years.That being said, introductions to … Continue reading RPGaDay2018 – Day 13 to 19
Accidentally other settings
So, it feels like a good few of the D&D settings I've worked on recently are variations of other settings that I haven't played. Yeah, fun right? Cambria - post-apocalyptic cityscape rewilded by a dense forest. Arcane magic is illegal, instead, there's psionics. Which is a bit like Dark Sun, in a forest instead of … Continue reading Accidentally other settings
Return to Ostromarka
I've had more of a mull over my ideas, here's what else I've come up with - Theudengard, and therefore the Ostromarka, is a human-dominated kingdom. Nevertheless, there are some other races - Alfar (Elves), Alfarblut (half-Elves) and Dwegar (Dwarves) in parts of Theudengard, Ogerblut (half-Orcs) in the Wastes. Maybe some Tieflings out there too, … Continue reading Return to Ostromarka
Taint rules in Ostromarka
So one of my favourite ideas from the Legend of the 5 Rings setting is the idea of Taint, a sort of metaphysical sickness and mutation that comes over someone causing them to do evil and be evil, and become more and more Tainted by doing so. Which fits pretty nicely into Ostromarka. Now, in … Continue reading Taint rules in Ostromarka
Ostromarka – yet more D&D
I started thinking of yet another D&D setting - this one is for my horror ideas, nominally. The idea was for Ostromarka to be the most distant, easterly outpost of the kingdom of Theudengard. Everything to the east, beyond Ostromark, is a blighted wasteland filled with demons and marauding orcs and probably a good few … Continue reading Ostromarka – yet more D&D
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