It’s been awfully quiet around my site. That’s deceptive: my head’s been down working on a lot of really cool stuff! Let’s take a look at some of things fast approaching the finish line.
Category: Publishing News (Page 7 of 8)
Check out the latest updates from Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition, OSR, Cortex, DeScriptors, and other releases by Tim Bannock.
Come to Dalentown! Establish a headquarters for your adventures as you explore bizarre wilderness sites and ancient dwarven tombs, or pass through and get embroiled in local intrigue! Adventures in Dalentown for 5th edition is now available on DriveThruRPG! It features loads of encounters, new monsters, new backgrounds, and new factions for you 5th edition games.
Let’s take a closer look!
Are you looking for a perfect starting settlement (or three?!), or a headquarters for your fantasy roleplaying game campaign setting? Want a bunch of ready-made NPCs, dozens of scenario ideas, and interesting allies and adversaries for your players to interact with?
Look no further than Adventures in Dalentown!
Now Available!
From the product page:
Adventures in Dalentown presents an expanded write-up of the prospering settlement of Dalentown, originally featured in The Darkness Beneath Dalentown. In addition to the new shops and Non-Player Characters, we’ve included dozens of adventure hooks, two additional nearby settlements, and an expansive bestiary featuring creatures benevolent and malicious! Keyed maps and extensive use of art throughout provide fantastic references for your scenarios, useful ideas for characters to populate your worlds, and plenty of conflict to get your characters immersed in the setting immediately!
This 45 page supplement includes:
- Beautiful cartography from Elven Tower Cartography, Dyson Logos, and Tim Bannock.
- A chapter each on Dalentown the growing human settlement, Rock Down the halfling & gnome village, and the mysterious Wizard’s Enclave!
- A chapter covering additional encounters in the sewers of Dalentown, as well as other areas in the region.
- The bestiary features 24 creatures — all with accompanying art! — to serve as playable characters, NPCs, monstrous foes, or mysterious allies, complete with suggested traits, setbacks, and more!
- Loads of adventure ideas for each location, tying the settlements together or allowing you to use them separately as you wish in your campaign!
This version uses the DeScriptors diceless roleplaying game system, available in PWYW or Definitive Editions!
Written by Matthew & Tim Bannock. Editing & Layout by Tim Bannock. Art by Bruno Balixa, Earl Geier, Rick Hershey / Fat Goblin Games, Gary Dupuis, Emile Lassalle and Alcide Dessalines d Orbigny, Theophile Tardif-Desvaux, Gustave Dore, Various Stock Art Resources. Cartography by Tim Bannock, Elven Tower Cartography, Dyson Logos.
Maps by Tim Bannock created using Cityographer by Inkwell Ideas.
Pick up Adventures in Dalentown today!
Are your adventurers in search of forbidden lore? Do they seek the fate of a young brass dragon that once protected the countryside? Has someone important to them been cursed? Or worse yet, gone missing, the victim of some terrible visitation in the darkest of night?
If so, the heroes must track down and defeat one of the most powerful night hags in all of the lands. But first, the must make to the very heart of…
The Bog of Enoren Titchwillow!
Read on for more!
A version of this article first appeared on neuronphaser.com. It has been moved here and updated with new content, insights, and links!
DeScriptors: Anything Goes PWYW Version was just released on DriveThruRPG and there are already plans to publish a bigger Definitive Edition in the coming weeks. But what is DeScriptors? And why is the gonzo Anything Goes setting the first release?
Read on and find out where DeScriptors came from, where it’s going, and check out several episodes of the popular Worldbuilder’s Anvil podcast, where host Jeffery Ingram ran DeScriptors to help troubleshoot his fantasy campaign setting!