Heroic Roleplaying in a World of Swords, Sorcery, and Steam
I’d like to introduce Aetrimonde, a TTRPG I’ve been designing with heavy inspiration from the houserules my group used back in our Dungeons and Dragons 4e days. I’m not ready to publish Aetrimonde yet, but I’m opening up this blog to discuss its design principles, mechanics, and systems.
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Category: Aetrimonde Gazetteer
Posts about Aetrimonde’s titular default setting: regions, cultures, magic, etc.
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Continuing on from my post about the plane of Faerie, today I’m going to cover the Autumn Court, which will be the focus of several posts this month. I won’t be showing off any statblocks in this post, which is more concerned with the lore surrounding Sidhe in general and the Autumn Court in particular,…
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Well, it’s November, and that means that this blog is moving along into a new monthly theme: the Autumn Court of Faerie. Of course, the first question that I feel the need to resolve is “What is Faerie?” And to answer that, I’m going to start off with a crash course on Aetrimonde’s cosmology before…
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Today, in the second half of my coverage of the Dwarven Federation, I’m going to be covering the nation’s current state, meaning government, politics, and society. And, I’ll cap it off by providing some suggestions for plot hooks that could be used to tie the Federation into a campaign! Government The Dwarven Federation is, as…
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Well, the readers have spoken, and it looks like you’d like to hear more about the Dwarven Federation, where Etterjarl Ragnvald hails from. So, by popular demand, I have a two-part post on this nation! Today, I’ll discuss the Federation’s history and how it came to be; the next post will cover its state in…
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Today, I’m going to talk about the actual world of Aetrimonde, by which I mean the planet and the solar system that it exists in, and some of the everyday consequences of things like lunar cycles. Notes in italics are out-of-universe references using Earth as a point of comparison. I have just enough knowledge of…
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In the interest of giving the poll from my previous post time to gather responses, I’m going to insert a post on a different topic today. This will be the first in a series of posts about the history, geography, and nations of Aetrimonde, the titular default setting of the game. A Brief History of…
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