Making items made easy
March 8, 2010 by shent_lodge
Filed under Game Design
When third edition came out for Dungeons and Dragons, I remember my players started making their own magic items and mundane items almost right away. As the game aged and players started looking to min max everything, craft was one of the first skills dropped in favor of advancing others like spot or diplomacy. Well [...]
One Ton Orc – Player Created Content
February 14, 2010 by shent_lodge
Filed under Featured, Game Design, Kirkland, Tortoise Cities
The best part about RPGs is when the players in your game start to get involved and add content. My home game world is really a mishmash of stuff I dreamed up and whatever my players threw into the mix to help make the game world make sense. One of my old players ran a [...]
A Giants Den
January 26, 2010 by shent_lodge
Filed under Game Design, Jelling
Now for my giants den. This a image I built from stock photos in Photoshop. It is for another quick Pathfinder RPG adventure I am creating for Winter War. I needed a den out in the swamp, by the town of Kingleaf, so I drew this out from some Images I pulled together from Ireland. [...]
A Map from the Past
January 18, 2010 by shent_lodge
Filed under Featured, Game Design, Jelling
I was digging through my old game notes and I found one of my early campaign maps. This is from 1999-2000, it shows my Forgotten Realms and Warcraft 2 influences in my earlier games. Lake Surma is there and my tortoises wandered in the fog of the marsh, named The Marsh, before I created Jerren. [...]
Village of Kingleaf
January 7, 2010 by shent_lodge
Filed under Game Design, Jelling
Officially founded in JY 905, Kingleaf was an old Brunari fort on the northern edge of the Green Forest. The name of the original fort is now forgotten and the forest is has receded miles to the south. People say the dragon, Surma, just looked at the forest and it started backing away from the [...]
Found Some Great Town Generation Guidelines
January 3, 2010 by shent_lodge
Filed under Game Design
I am building a couple new towns in Alidor and a google search for towngen led me to a very well thought out little pdf article called Village and Town Generator By Kory M. Kaese and Allison E. Kaese. It is a two pager “designed to assist the game master or player with creating a [...]




