My last post identified several traits I will define trappings for: accord, order, magic, and so on. Each trait can have more than one trapping. I was about to start describing trappings for various traits, then realized… … before I go into what individual trappings look like, it’s probably a …
Almost as much as pantheon design, I’ve liked exploring other planes. The first edition Manual of the Planes was one of the most fascinating books of that era to me. It showed such alien worlds. There were many other campaign setting books/box sets, but they were relatively normal. At least, …
Fiction and RPG settings within various genres often share tropes… but which tropes each setting uses varies. Fantasy settings often include aspects reminiscent of medieval Europe… but sometimes other eras or regions. A single setting can include areas with different historical or mythological influences. Some of these influences are easily …
It’s been a while — by the look of it, more than six years! — since the RPG Blog Carnival has visited In My Campaign… but it comes again! Starting October 1, let’s explore other worlds. I’ve got a firm idea about what I’m writing about, but I’m not going …
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. …
Primary Drive: delivers power from the Engine to the clockwork tower in the Abandoned Tower. Node-Based Megadungeon: Clockwork Hell Primary Transmission Room This is a fairly large circular room with a broad cylinder projecting from the floor to the ceiling and rotating steadily. There are passages leading radially from this …
I’ve already done the heavy lifting, I have an outline — even a detailed outline! — and the size I described ten years ago aligns with the target. All I need to do is fill it in. That shouldn’t take much, right? Right?! I mean, it’s only 108 areas, each …
About this time some years ago — Christmas 2014 — GreyKnight gave me a gift. He wrote a metapost of my blog, a ‘blog post generator‘ consisting of a set of tables describing the post. Table 1: Subject matter (d8) has, as the first entry, “Revisit old post and completely …
As might be expected, I’m starting with Polyhedral Pantheons techniques. This first pantheon used ‘guided selection’. I made sure all alignments are present, then assigned domains in ways that seemed to fit at least some of the secondary domains. For instance, ‘Travel’ (site L) got assigned because Weather and Luck …
The #dungeon23 blog challenge has been making the rounds and it intrigues me. Each day, you create a dungeon room. It doesn’t need to be fully developed, it might only be a sentence or two, but if you manage to do this even five or six days a week all …
