LF nerds for D&D 5th edition

They have a map for the whole world and only some fights feature maps, usually the huge ones with a lot of things to track. If I orchestrate such a fight, I'll prepare something too, with or without the features behind the paywall.

 

this ones for free btw. we used that to play pathfinder (~= dnd3.5)

http://www.rptools.net/?page=maptool

 

With so many people wanting in I wonder if it would be better to do some 2 party stuff, with the 2 gms having their party of misfits adventurers working towards the same goal, like a race of sorts, or against each other. Those things always sound fun. Though that's really complicated probably.

 

My thought is to have a permanent setting that persists between campaigns, and where one party is done and parts ways, another comes in its stead and plays on.


EDIT: Rollplay has just rebooted their flagship campaign and switched it to 5th edition (ours), now's a good time to start watching it.

 

You guys, keep in mind there are scheduling issues! Not everyone will be able to play all the time, and as such we'll end up with less people. This should make it manageable playercount-wise. I mean, there aren't that many declared people, really.

 

I N T R O B O Y S


The world of Radreha has been steadily recovering from the undead Blight that happened upon it twenty years ago. Fields were once again tended to, ruined cities reclaimed from final remnants of the huge army of the dead, and the dreadful memories faded as each winter came and went. The effects of it will still be felt for a very long time among the people of the Stalvar Kingdom, the lands of which, being home to the Skeletal Throne, saw the most, and worst, of the fighting. Despite King Gorgonz's efforts to bring back the heavily tarnished glory, it will still take many years for the kingdom to come back from what was brought upon it.

The grand scheme of things may have been influenced, and quite severely too, but smaller communities on the far ends of the country didn't suffer from the Blight nearly as much as those close to Titan's Crest. Life went on, keeping its usual pace, only briefly interrupted by the call to arms, which took most able-bodied men to King Gorgonz's army when the undead threat was identified as dire. Most of them came back safely, with many a story to tell of the bravery of the King and his men, the ferocity of the Northern Tribes, the terrifying orc warcries, the power of the Cathedral's clerics, and, of course, the terrors every one of them had to face.

Only a few seemed to have remembered about the people that deserved to be called heroes among normal men, and if they mentioned them, it was with but a few words hidden among tales of battle. Thus, the names of those directly responsible for the fall of the Lich King have vanished, just like snow after even the coldest winter. Perhaps back in the Capital, where the King and the aristocrats resided, someone could still tell the tale as it was supposed to be told.

Out here, in the town of Chezal, the few veterans that were still around wouldn't even tell a word about them. It had its own set of problems - now, during the Blight and even before it. Bandits still plagued the grasslands, monsters still prowled the forests, and diseases still took people despite the local clergy's best efforts. An undead army far away was only met with passing interest as yet another hut was being set ablaze by ruthless brigands while news of another hunter having died to a rabid bear arrived.

No wonder the Blight didn't live in hearts and minds around here.

Despite all its problems, the lands were among the most fertile in the kingdom, the wood from the dense forests always top-quality, and the few mines in the area provided iron, coal, silver and more. This ensured a steady flow of newcomers, not only the hard-working kind, but also various mercenaries and adventurers seeking to make easy coin in the far reaches of Stalvar Kingdom.

 

Laugh all you want, but the cities in my prototype from a few years ago were:
Capital
Northern City
Eastern City (in the West too)
Western City (in the East)
Southern City

I'm proud to say I have evolved past that point, but I didn't get the name for the capital established. Mostly because my story was focused on the Blight itself. I have the area around it mapped out much better than the Capital.


Tavern's called "The White Hare".

 

....yes?