Introduction of Tholin Level 1 Half-Elf, Rogue The following notes are from an exchange of text messages between myself (GM) and the Big M (Tholin) as a pre-game setup. The Big M’s is a man of few words. Chapter 0 1/11/2019 GM: After the “incident” in Goremonte with your thieves guild, you made your strategic retreat out of town. Your rogue skills are currently a … Continue reading Tholin’s Intro: Chapter 0
Introduction of Fiznarthian Ooglenook (Fizzle) Level 1 Gnome, Cleric of Pelor The following notes are from an exchange of text messages between myself (GM) and David Pettit (Fizzle) as a pre-game setup. D&D Game Notes by David Pettit Chapter 0 1/11/2019 GM: You hadn’t been in M’Ka long (couple months), when your idol/mentor Master Foswith asked you to travel to Goremont to fetch a recently … Continue reading From the Diary of Frizzle: Chapter 0
What have I done? I started running a new 5th Edition D&D adventure for some friends I met through work. It’s in the same world setting that I created for the Dreadstorms Lost campaign, which I’m continuing with the several-years going now Sunday group. (Note, the image at the top of this post is from the Wizard’s of the Coast D&D 5.0 Starter Set. I sam … Continue reading A New Tale Begins
Check out the improved upon version of this map of Obsidian posted in April 2019 The town of Obsidian lies along the northern stretch of Briarstone’s Free Road, between Berlstrum and Goremont. The population is primarily gnome. The ground floor is “human” size and scale, where the rather random levels off the ground are more comfortable for the shorter races. Beneath the city is a … Continue reading Town of Obsidian
A couple of starts to pencil sketches of world-building continents maps for a fantasy setting Continue reading In the Works
While some might suggest that posting photos of my trip to Ireland here is a bit off topic. I’d argue that it was research. Research for drawing better castles and the like on my fantasy maps as well as inspiration for my D&D games! “Bunratty Castle is a large 15th-century tower house in County Clare, Ireland.” – Wikipedia Personally I still thinks it’s a friggin’ … Continue reading Ireland: Bunratty Castle
I was recently on a trip to get some inspiration for castles and the like. We don’t have a lot of those in the Pacific Northwest. In September I travel with a delightful group of ladies to the majestic land of the Irish, which is chuck-a-block full of old castles, cemeteries, monasteries, and ruins. Blarney Castle & Gardens was one of my favorite stops. It … Continue reading Ireland: Blarney Castle
When fighting a battle with harpies in a forest, sometimes you have to get creative with those trees and nests! November 2018 – Added backstory below photos. Backstory These notes are being added in November, 3 months after the game occurred. My game notes aren’t great, so some of the details are a little fuzzy. Our band of adventurers were camped beside the free road … Continue reading Harpy Battle
My hand-drawn map of The Ruins of Amara on the NE Coast of Briarstone (campaign setting) Continue reading Ruins of Amara
my hand-drawn map named Luapi Continue reading Luapi
Colored, hand-drawn map of the fantasy land of Xarundran Continue reading Xarundran – X marks the spot in color
Started working on my next map. I’m enjoying the shape and feel of this one so far. Continue reading X marks the spot
After joining the Cartographers’ Guild, I’ve learned that most of my rivers have all been messed up and that I’ll never really be done with a map. The orginally posted version of the Anzorae map with information tidbits on the locations is here. So I made the following changes: Fixed the multiple rivers leaving a lake or a river splitting downstream. By “fixed” I mean … Continue reading Anzorae – Back for More!
Additional work done on the Yewnaria map, including city labels, pathways, and color Continue reading Yewnaria Revisited
Description of the effects of the Will of Orcus spell being cast by Kazel and the plague the casting triggers each day Continue reading #20 – Will of Orcus Plague – Dreadstorms Lost
This delightful hand-drawn map of Anzorae has towns, hamlets, castles, labeled locations and more! Includes some descriptions of goings on at key points of interest. Continue reading Anzorae – fantasy map
A hand-drawn map of a fantasy land called Bealdunagean, using pencils, and for color markers, highlighters, and random asundries. Continue reading Bealdunagaen – fantasy map sketch
New Dice Bringeth D&D Geek Happines There’s something absolutely giddy making about getting a bunch of new, nice looking dice. I’ve always felt a bit deprived in the dice-quantity side of things. Typically I buy a single poly set at a time every couple of years, but not this time. I’d been coveting the Wiz Dice Bag of Devouring on Amazon that comes with “140 Polyhedral … Continue reading Dice & the Bag of Devouring
Whirlygig in color Doodle noodles, noodely appendages … sometimes a doodle is just a whirlygig Whirlygig in Black only Earlier version of this sketch This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Continue reading Whirlygig – design doodle with pen
Bestosa is a map of a fantasy continent pencil sketch Continue reading Bestosa – pencil sketch fantasy map
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