Friday, September 3, 2010

How to train your dragon to be a lethal weapon

I have been looking at the spells in the Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook, and I noticed that a couple of them really work well with my game world of Alidor. In Alidor, dragons are top dog, and tortoises are man’s only hope. I have told players that there have been many wars between the people [...]

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 [...]

The Female Cleric of Sarel

June 15, 2009 by shent_lodge  
Filed under 4e, Jerren, Tortoise Cities, rpg

Here is an image of the other female player in my home game. The 6th level cleric of Sarel, Sister Ana Bosbert. On retirement Ana went to Jerren to tour the tortoise cities as a healer and envoy of the church of Sarel. The many religions in Alidor are all well tolerated on the tortoises [...]

Another Rough Image of Cork

May 10, 2009 by shent_lodge  
Filed under Game Design, Tortoise Cities

Here is the latest image of Cork, the wandering tortoise city taken over by crazed orcs.  So far I added trees, streets and the gladiatorial coliseum. Basically I used Bryce 6.1 to get a quick image of a plane of trees, using terrain story book grass texture Z-brush 3.12 to build the tortoise and Photoshop CS3 to put it [...]

I Think I Missed the Boat for Shared Campaign World

April 12, 2009 by shent_lodge  
Filed under Game Design, Tortoise Cities

RPGbloggers Network is making a shared campaign world which appears to be a pretty cool idea. I have been just so busy with work and family and gaming in my home game and the RPGA. Anyway, I have this tortoise city that would be perfect to share called Cork since it has gone missing from [...]

More Tortoise City Clay Doodles

February 2, 2009 by shent_lodge  
Filed under Game Design, Tortoise Cities

Here are some quick clay mock-ups of my alidor tortoise cities, I use them in the games to show size differences between the cities. Props like these are why I like to game at home. The large tortoise is the size of the city of Alice, the medium size one represents Morgan and the small one [...]

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