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[Gods of Wandrossa] Rebalancing, rest, and relaxation.

Quick note. Tonight I spent a little time balancing the levels for the Gods. Likely, I’ll go back and edit the subs, too.

But tonight I’m going to take a little break. See you in the AM with a fresh poll and look at our new factions.

[Wicked Maple Grove] Xiphonans (Serpentfolk)

To the western end of Wicked Maple Grove at the neck of Centaur Wood, there stood a great tower in a swamp. Not much was known about the tower or its purposes other than that it once served as a stronghold for a mysterious race of giant serpentfolk.

The medusan arcanist Gothmog of Udum recalls that the serpentfolk came ...

[Morning Poll] Three more factions in Blackleaf Forest...

Hey all! Blackleaf Forest has been growing more each day. It's nuts to think that what started as the product of an algoritm on donjon.bin.sh has grown into something all its own.

Okay, so there are two factions so far in the Blackleaf Forest:

The Blackleaf Confederacy is a conglomeration of city-...

[Gods of Wandrossa] Forge Godly Domain

Hope everyone is having a great evening. Moving things along, I've created a brand new domain today for you godly folk: 

The Forge Domain 

The forge domain is all about techn...

[Blackleaf Forest] Who are/were the serpentmen?

I threw out the name "serpentmen" yesterday because, as some of you may know, a certain snake race from Fifth Edition's book-o'-monsters aren't allowed thanks to the OGL/SRD (aka, I don't want ot get sued). Therefore, I have to retheme them a little.

No worries, of course, becuase I loooove making monsters!

Anyway...

[The Drakecrags] Introducing The Sorcerous Town of Tamor

Of course, not every part of the region west of the Drakecrags (known simply as "The Drakecrag Region") is untamed wilderness. In fact, there are two major humanoid settlements--well, three if you count Gorkil, but most Confederates wouldn't nor would the Gorkil Goblins themselves--in this region. 

Once, there was ...

[Blackleaf Forest] The Banner of the Merchant Kings

The green of the flag represents the Blackleaf Forest. The five lines are the roads that cross through Orlyggthorp (pronounced or-LEEG-eh-thorp), giving it its infamous moniker--the Great Crossroads. Of course, the five golden crowns are the five Merchant Kings themselves. Ironically, three of the Merchant Kings are actually ...

[Gods of Wandrossa] Trickery Godly Domain

Hey hey, gang! Good news. The Gods of Trickery can now enter Wandrossa, as I've completed the Trickery Godly Domain.

Trickery gods are all about amassasing wealth, betraying their allies, and creating powerul illusions. At high levels, they can create dens of villainy and even cast dreadful illusions upon an entire regi...

[Gods of Wandrossa] Upcoming Godly Domains - game starts Monday, Feb 25

Hey all! Just letting you know that the game will officially starts Monday, February 25, 2019 at 12am CST when I post the very first CTA. Between now and then I should have the remaining Godly Domains cooked up as well as the stats for all of the locations in Wicked Maple Grove. Chance are, we'll be opening u...

[Daily Poll] What's up with The Ruined Tower of Gothmog of Udum?

I had the worst writer's block trying to come up with a poll idea this evening. So instead of wracking my brain any further, I decided to turn to a map of Wicked Maple Grove for ideas.

One cool area of interest that I really di...

[Wandrossa Gazetteer] Volume 2 - February 17, 2019

Here is the gazetteer, detailing everything that we've learned about Wandrossa, the Ninth Kingdom of Enombath, the Blackleaf Forest, Wicked Maple Grove, and, of course, they City of Bygrove.

It's crazy to think that we've created this much world in just a span of 12 days.

Enjoy!

[Blackleaf Forest] The Seal of the Blackleaf Confederation

Happy Sunday, folks. I'm working on putting out a new Gazetteer today. While writing it up, I got a wild hair and decided to create this nifty emblem representing the seven city-states of the Blackleaf Confederacy.

The tree in the center is the forest itself. It's on a black circle surrounded by a white border, represen...

[The Drakecrags] The Terror of the Drakecrags... what is it?

The votes are in. We know that there isn't a whole lot of civilized life in the region to the west of the Drakecrages (dubbed "The Drakecrag Region"). And there's at least one large--possibly gargantuan creature--who's the boss there.

The Blackleaf Forest, of course, is a cursed land. The body of Enombath the Phoenix is...

[Gods of Wandrossa] What Godly Domain do you want to see next?

Hey all! Yesterday, I posted the first TASTE of Gods of Wandrossa godly domains with the Arcana domain. I plan on hammering a few more out this weekend.

Since you'll all be playing gods, which one of the 12 domains would y...

[Blackleaf Forest] The Grave of Enombath the Phoenix

I just love it when a plan comes together. 

The dead god buried below the Blackleaf Forest is a God of Light, and I thought it appropriate to make it none other than Enombath, the God of Phoenixes. This adds to the trepidation his followers and phoenixkin have with it being the 9th Kingdom. 

The end time...

[Gods of Wandrossa] Gods of Arcana

Hey everyone! Some awesome news. I just created the first Divine Domain for the Gods of Wandrossa. 

Behold: The Arcana Domain. Also, I created 10 divine powers so you get to see how those work, too. 2019-02-16 03:45:04 +0000 UTC View Post

[Poll] What's going on in the Drakecrags?

The expansion poll from yesterday is officially over and it's been decided: the Gods of Wandrossa will head to the Drakecrags once we hit 150 patrons on the site. Woohoo!

Question, is, though, what's happening in the Drakecrags?

2019-02-15 23:26:20 +0000 UTC View Post

[Daily Poll] Outer Realms of Wandrossa

Morning everyone. I'm busily working on the Gods of Wandrossa (GoW) ruleset for those who are interested in it. It's moving along at a brisk pace, which is exciting, and it should hopefully be here by Monday.

When I ...

[Gods of Wandrossa] Two Big Rules Chunks

Hey everybody! I'm pretty excited to announce that I spent a bunch of time yesterday working up some more rules for the upcoming Gods of Wandrossa game. I'm hoping to start it Monday and I think I'm almost where I need to be. 

First up is the actual "god class" itself, to give you an idea of how you level. I'm stil...

[Blackleaf Forest] There is a dead god beneath the Blackleaf Forest... what kind ofgod was it?

The polls are finished. Since the second poll was pretty close, I decided that fair is fair and the Dead God entry should be the one and only entry.

But that leaves the question. What sort of god was it that was buried below the Blackleaf forest whose essense now changes the land?

Below, I've entered in each of th...

[Announcement] Book Slate for 2019

A lot of cool stuff's been happening here, so I thought I might address what books and PDFs you can all expect this year, at least those that I've planned so far. Of course, this is all subject to change.

Wandrossa Gazetteer (Weekly on Sundays). This includes all of the updates to the Wandrossa continen...

[Blackleaf Forest] Where to next?

Well, we're only 16 Patrons away from hitting the next goal, which expands upon the Blackleaf forest. I've created a quick map of the Blackleaf Forest (with its new major features, I might add!) and selected three areas for us to expand into.

2019-02-14 21:42:02 +0000 UTC View Post

[New Goal] Expanding Wandrossa

While I'm building out the new rules for the Gods of Wandrossa game, I decided to add another goal before the Monster Manual goal. If we reach 150 patrons, we'll expand into another region of the Blackleaf Forest, probably one of the three adjacent hexes to the Wicked Maple Grove region that we're currently focused on. At the...

[Gods of Wandrossa] Formalized Rules for the God Class

All right, folks! I just finished drafting up the God Class. Hopefully, I'll have the other rules drafted by next Monday so we can get started on the first Year of play. Worst case scenario, we'll start the first Monday in March.

Here are the rules: 2019-02-14 21:10:33 +0000 UTC View Post

[Gods of Wandrossa] Design Notes

Looks like a majority of you all were interested in the rules system for building the history of Wandrossa. On the blog, I wrote out some of the rough ideas for the mechanics.

Take a look and let me know what you think down in the comments.

2019-02-14 05:31:01 +0000 UTC View Post

[Bonus Poll] Should Blackleaf's curse be the result of more than one thing?

The poll re: the reasons why Blackleaf had so much evil in it was fairly divided, with lots of great ideas coming in. The overall winner was the idea of a Dead God being buried below the forest; an earthquake cracked open its chamber, affecting the forest. 

Second place was the permanent eclipse that cast a shadow ...

[Daily Poll] Who is Bygrove's leader?

We know that the cities of the Blackleaf Forest are a confederacy, which means each city-state has its own leader and that the city-states work towards a common good.

Bygrove is the largest settlement in the Wicked Maple Grove region of the Blackleaf Forest.  

But who is its leader? Who is the one that reside...

[Bonus Poll] What is going on with The Blackleaf Forest?

Since we've been focusing on the Blackleaf Forest region of Enombath's Ninth Kingdom, we've learned a lot of interesting things.

For one, there's a lot of traditionally "evil" races that call this place their home. Goblins, bugbears, hobgoblins, medusas, vampir, weretigers, and even zombie-like creatures called cordies ...

[Daily Poll] Enombathian History/The Game

Recently, one of my players in my Saturday game introduced me to a cool set of rules for a game known as well.. The Game. Basically, this game was used to create the history of a roleplaying setting. You can learn more about The Game ...