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: Encounters, Adventures and Campaigns
Posts about writing and running encounters, adventures, and campaigns, including advice excerpted from the GMH and (forthcoming) some actual playable content.
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With the fourth sample character Ipki Chainbreaker recently finished, I think it’s time to start the next stage of building Aetrimonde’s starter kit: writing an adventure! As with the sample characters, I’m going to incorporate some reader feedback into this writing process, and the first thing I want to get settled is the location of…
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One of the things that I think is crucial to writing a campaign setting is to raise interesting questions and not give a definitive answer to any of them. As tempting as it might be to write a canonical answer to the big questions of the setting, authors have to remember that a published setting…
