I’ve got to love the marketing and management geniuses at WOTC. After one of the worst marketing campaigns I’ve ever seen a major company mount for their new fourth edition of D&D, they’ve managed to top themselves. Their online service, … Continue reading →
Places in the Hidden Valley, Continued Twin Peaks A twin peaked mountain that separates the Vale of Girwyllan from the the Black Forest. There are no truly reliable reports of the southernmost peak ever being successfully scaled. Unicorn Lake This … Continue reading →
Places in the Hidden Valley, Continued The Ring This is a large, tall plateau shaped somewhat like an elongated ring. The top is barren and broken. Due to the creatures that live within it, the lower central section is thought … Continue reading →
Places in the Hidden Valley, Continued Hidden Lake This large lake is hidden in the arms of the Outer Mountains. Some say that the Black Abbey, the headquarters for all the thieves and assassins in the Hidden Valley is located … Continue reading →
Places in the Hidden Valley, Continued Dragonfire Flats This is some of the best farmland in the valley. The land is generally open fields with occasional small copses of trees. Unfortunately, for most of recorded history it has been “controlled” … Continue reading →
Places in the Hidden Valley Arlynn Fens This is a large, trackless swamp that is claimed by neither the Girwyllan Empire nor the Irillion City-State, although it has been claimed by both in times past. It is the home of … Continue reading →
This is the first in a series of posts about one of my two major original campaign settings, the Hidden Valley. The Hidden Valley was a huge valley high in an even larger mountain range. The valley floor was over … Continue reading →
There have been just over 100 downloads of Microlite74 in its first 48 hours on the web. Not bad at all, in my opinion, for a fairly specialized type of game.
Continue reading →Microlite74 has been released! Microlite74, like its parent game, Microlite20, is a trimmed down, sub-miniature version of the Primary Fantasy SRD rules that has been designed to be quick and easy to play. The goal of Microlite74, however, is to … Continue reading →
I have been looking at some of my old classic Traveller campaign notes over the last few days. One of the quirks of classic Traveller was that characters did not improve. They started out with a lot of prior experience … Continue reading →