Now that the Microscope session is complete, time to move into the Lexicon phase. This should be much simpler, really. The Seekers of Lore Obsidian Portal site there is a wiki. The front page of the wiki has a link to instructions on using the wiki, how to create pages, …
Yesterday we ran the Microscope session for the Seekers of Lore campaign. All in all I’m very pleased with how things turned out, and I think we’ve got some very good material to use for the Lexicon session to follow. A few of us would have liked to have continued, …
Andrew was Lens for our last turn, and looks into the knowledge and wisdom of the world. Age of Gods, Round 4 Lens: Andrew Focus: The World Thinks and Speaks Eras Defined Period: By the Grace of the Gods Period: Sifting of the Plane [dark] [Andrew] The gods decided how matter …
David decided to investigate something a little deeper. Age of the Gods, Round 2 Lens: David Focus: The interaction between the gods and mortal races. Eras Defined Period: By the Grace of the Gods Period: Rise of the Tribes [light] Event: Ssthar Betrayal [dark] Event: Death of Orospeal [light] Event: Blood …
Being my setting, I was Lens for the first round. Age of Gods, Round 1 Lens: Keith Focus: The First Civilization Eras Defined Period: By the Grace of the Gods Period: Rise of the Tribes [light] [Keith, after By the Grace of the Gods] The Kreshtar nomads (horse-riding nomadic savages) start …
Yesterday we ran a Microscope session to build the baseline for the Seekers of Lore campaign setting. In Round 0 we laid the groundwork for what was to follow. Age of Gods, Round 0 We kept everything to the Age of Gods, when the gods were still building and directly …
Back in April I floated the idea of combining Lexicon and Microscope in an exercise to develop a campaign setting. I realized not too long ago that this could be a very useful activity for creating a baseline setting for my Seekers of Lore campaign. I see it working something …
… a little rambly, I’m trying to get this down before I forget. I realized the other day that I was overthinking things with regard to discovering and restoring the gods in Seekers of Lore. My initial expectation was that clerics were cultists, followers of specific gods, since that’s how …
I’m building a sandbox for my Seekers of Lore campaign, and decided it might be worth indexing the articles now rather than later, including my anticipated future posts. Posts So Far Finding the Map: I use Hexographer to generate random maps with three different settings (Default Terrain, Many Islands, Fewer …
I realized today that clerics may have to work differently in Seekers of Lore than I was expecting. This is something of an exploratory article, I don’t know what the conclusion will be. First Thoughts Part of the premise of Seekers of Lore is that experience points are gained by …