Cheerio together!
my well deserved summer holiday I have spent in the Scottish Highlands: I immigrated to the West Highland Way along, exploring the rugged side valleys of Glen Coe, climbed Ben Nevis (tourists on Bravo ...) and ofSkye enjoyed wild wind and waves on the cliffs of the Isle. Now I would like to post a photo, but my camera is believed lost just forwarded me - thanks to the Airport Authority Glasgow Prestwick. Images will be supplied ...
On my return home I was not idle, but did the D & D conducted by me "campaign Towering Northern Lights" something into shape. The first game night was largely successful, here's a little Conclusion:
- The group is still very divided: While in Dörnstrut, the whaling town in the far north (To make this town is to turn the campaign) are two playable characters, the third character is still about 1000 km further south. How did this happen? A short prehistory element of the character was played (at a private evening in front of weeks), namely, an encounter that gave the character the motivation to travel to Dörnstrut. Should then take place Sceneframing ("You come in after a long journey in Dörnstrut"), but the player would necessarily travel solo adventure. Your wish is my command was, especially since it the first game night could not anyway. So I had to Dörnstrut only two adventurers: a human bard and a goblin illusionists (not standard D & D-goblin!). Both in the first stage. You think your an adequate match for them! A single, graded as Wolf chance encounter in the wild ("He looks half starved, and has a wound in the side"), the group has almost wiped out. She was to be attacked by a weasel to me a bit too banal. CONCLUSION: More enemies too small and inexperienced groups tinker!
- The plot seems to appeal to the players: They have played extensively and is interested in one of the two warring parties for control of the city (almost) decided (both options were open and equivalent), have a considerable enthusiasm down to the day were very creative in finding a way to intervene with master thief Femdan much face, are marked with enthusiasm in Kiara's tomb descended etc. CONCLUSION: To make the story arc so openly. For the first time I used a Relationmap, and it really helps a lot: One directly sees dozens of different possibilities of intervention by the characters.
- The information I have with Photoshop and a lot of Internet activity-made lists for important NPCs people were honored. It seems worth the effort - the recognition factor to skyrocket and not lose many words with tedious descriptions. An example:
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- (Note: The portrait is removed from the game was Lazarus (Ultima V mod for Dungeon Siege), http://www.u5lazarus.com I hope it does not bother anyone, that I consider it mine. non-commercial use campaign. The deer head is made of a coat of arms, found in Wikipedia. The rest is mine). Anyone have a page with beautiful character heads finds, whether drawn or real: I can always use!
- Inkscape has proven very useful for vault plans and maps. Is the city ready and are the characters through Kirias tomb, then I'll post both here. Inkscape 0.45 available from the fraktalisieren possible paths you can to create wonderfully rough and jagged cave walls and / or coastlines. Speaking of good maps: Gives you a look Myrmidons his city plan to Aestirith . Optical really something of a professional - but that reminds me of the lower jaw clattering on the table. to
- a fjord (eg the fjord, where my city is Dörnstrut) feature is damn hard. The man works but symmetrical than you think, and so rugged, how have glaciers, wind and waves, the coast of Norway designed the I-will not succeed easily. But who are my friends, Google Earth, which I'm stealing real fjords ("Hey, Knut, Ole, where is our Fjord? ") And post-processing in Photoshop, and the generators ( L3DT , Wilbur ) that I create a rugged terrain and can lay in my Photoshop card. The end result's in a few days to see here.
your Grimnir
