Games and settings I’ve played in or run.
The major premise of my Seekers of Lore campaign is that during the Age of Amorphia, much was lost. Objects, places, magic, and even deities, all have been… misplaced. Okay, the deities actually left. The shattering of Paradise means they were no longer capable of making the prime plane stable …
Yesterday I wrote about using Hero System for my Seekers of Lore campaign. Today I explore what that would look like. Recognize that Hero System lets you build almost anything you can imagine. This is a useful feature of the game! This will not be fully available to players in …
I’d always assumed I’d run Seekers of Lore under some form of D&D or AGE System. D&D has been my system of choice for decades, and AGE scratches the same itch, better. Turns out they both struggle in some ways. A major aspect of Seekers of Lore is that ‘new …
It’s been quite a while since I’ve done anything with my Seekers of Lore campaign. I want to fix that. It even aligns with this year’s theme of ‘Year of the Lost’. The entire campaign is based around looking for things lost in the distant past. Or not so distant. …
A friend told me years ago about a character she wrote up for a supers game, specifically her origin story. A bunch of chaos gods dropped in on her apartment and imbued her with mighty powers. “AND NOW, GO AND DO MIGHTY DEEDS IN OUR NAME, SALLY OF YORK!” “Uh… …
Back in the saddle. I tried the #dungeon23 challenge last year and failed miserably (two posts in #dungeon23, three in #pantheon23… last was on January 2, 2023). Let’s see if I can do better this year. Some time ago I explored the idea of a West Marches-style open table campaign. …
To my mind a good sandbox campaign doesn’t just plop the PCs down and tell them to find some way to entertain themselves. A good sandbox is seeded with points of interest to give the PCs something to start with. The PCs can find their own trouble after that, but …
Some years ago, Ben Robbins described his West Marches campaign. I’ve always wanted to run a campaign like this. Me being me, though, I like to be able to see at least over the next hill. For a West Marches campaign I don’t need to know a lot about what’s …
The PCs in the AGE of Rediscovery campaign are, at this point, all from Bandisal. Considering that they will likely be discovering lost temples to strange gods, I should probably have some idea of what ‘normal gods’ look like to them. The Bandisal culture came out of the Age of Upheaval, …
The setting of the AGE of Rediscovery campaign is entirely rooted in divine worldbuilding. Literally so, in fact. The gods all got together to build the prime plane as a place to hide from amorphia, the realm of seething chaos that their own haphazardly-built realm was constructed in. An amorphic …
