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New Year, New Campaign… New Starting Village!
🕑 Added 2020-01-06 21:07:30 +0000 UTCA new year is here and it is time for a new campaign! And a classic trope of the fantasy campaign is to start in or near a small village – big enough that it can provide some equipment, rumours, NPCs to interact with, and even a few mysteries – and yet small and distant enough that it acts as a final point of civilization before you head into the unknown.
For this campaign, this is the village of Iyesgarten (pronounced Eyes-Garden).
Even smaller than distant Hommlet, Iyesgarten is on some of the last arable land of the Satrapy. Beyond Iyesgarten lie the Swamp of Forgotten Dreams to the north, and the Badlands of Koroush to the East – and the trade road to the City of Copper Bowls. It is the traffic along that trade road that keeps Iyesgarten alive. Caravans of goods come through here a few times a month and local farmers provide them with one last chance to restock their own supplies before they cross the badlands.
This traffic has made the Inn and the Mill a fair amount of money over the years, and they are the cornerstones of “modern” Iyesgarten.
But like many frontier towns, Iyesgarten also attracts a number of people who would be unwelcome in the civilized Satrapy – some here looking for work with the caravans, but others trying to quietly live here without being noticed. Perhaps a black sheep of the royal-family-in-exile. An assassin who has been in hiding for a decade or two. A druid of a heretical sect that was excommunicated and destroyed…
https://dysonlogos.blog/2020/01/06/iyesgarten/
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Dyson Logos
I have some of the initial material in mind, and a general goal that the whole thing get weirder as we progress.
Dyson Logos
One day we will revisit Gravelthorpe. I was intending to run a glacier mega dungeon crawl based out of Gravelthorpe at some point, but it never got off the ground.
Do you have an idea of the direction this campaign is going to take, or do you let it develop as you map further areas? Just interested in your thought process. Love your work ❤
Andrew Shields
Your base town Gravelthorpe made an impression on me, many years ago. I love the idea of it, and how you used the nearby site for procedural dungeons. The fairground games you used to pull the party together. That's good stuff.
