I have huge numbers of sites for plot hooks. There is more information here than I ever had at the beginning of a campaign. It is a good example of planning too much before a game begins. I’ve added some stuff, since I posted it on Live Journal and I’ve altered a good deal more. I got to lift histories and etymologies from multiple sources and to editorialize about some locations. I had plenty of places taken from my many maps and so I filled out the information. That just left me with putting together a Gazetteer. There is a great chance that the Players will never learn or have need of most of it. This is far more background than I ever build into most campaigns before they begin. This document is way too long and covers too much to give to most Players, so I will have to chop things down to a minimum and focus the background for any Players in this campaign. So, I took all my source material and my limited knowledge of Celtic myth and history and wrote out a History of Iolta and Thrian. Now, that I had my maps, I needed a background for my game. I prettied up later and here is the link I sent Rhonda. I had to fiddle with the scale on occasion, but for the most part it was a simple cut and paste. I took the overland maps of the four modules I had mentioned plus Evil Ruins, Elven Banner, and N2: The Forest Oracle and began mashing them together in GIMP. Now, that I had a continent, I needed a more detailed map of the campaign area. Avalian is at alternate spelling of Avalon. The name Iolta (pronounced ee ole TUH) was taken from the legal acronym IOLTA (pronounced eye ole TUH) meaning Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts. I named the continents Iolta and Thrain and labeled the large island between them Avalian.
Perkins and told him about my conscription of his work.) The rest of the information may be mined at a later date. I stole it flipped the map, renamed it, and called it mine. It had a flavor that I liked and the map was wonderful.
Rhonda Hanyes Koti expressed an interest in the final product, so I told her that I would send her a link when I was done.Īround this time, Chris Perkins, in his DnD Online column: The Dungeon Master Experience, posted a link to his new campaign. I told the OSGers that I liked the book and planned on using it, Throne of Evil, C4: To Find a King, and C5: The Bane of Llywelyn as the basis for a new campaign. I own it, Evil Ruins, and Throne of Evil all works by Stephen Bourne. In early to mid 2013, a fellow member of Old School Gamers asked what people thought about the module Shadows of Evil. I had long wanted an area that was deeply Celtic in tone. Robert Hegewood, a friend from college worked up an invader’s history for that unnamed continent. Rilmorn, as I conceived of the world, has three times the surface area of Earth, so it always seemed logical that there would be continents that were yet unaccounted.
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