Elemental Reductions

  I wrote this was an experiment with the following goals:  To try to put together a setting that was useful for a game master using an old school game such as B/X or Old School Essentials , or a game  inspired by them, such as Knave or Shadowdark . To create a setting for the invertebrate ancestries I made. Put together something that can be used physically, as a trifold pamphlet. To provide something for this month's Blog Carnival, hosted by Errant Thinking , on the topic of " Tiny Epics ".   I've copied the text from the trifold pamphlet document, for your reading pleasure.  You can find the actual trifold document here: https://empedocles.itch.io/underlog . Sheila Brown, “Moss On Fallen Tree” released under CC0. Source: https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=314623   Underlog - A Pocket Setting Somewhat like our world, the creatures are about fifty times larger. The people player characters interact with are intelligent...

    This is post is for this month's  RPG Blog Carnival topic: Other, Between, and Under hosted by vdoughnut .  Once again, the gods laughed at my plans, and the full work is beyond the scope of a single blog post, so I'll share a link to the GDocs draft, of course down below.       First, let me say that for a setting I have never had a chance to play, I really love the concept of Spelljammer .  I like creating wild fantasy settings that go beyond another hex crawl on a world, to a world crawl.     So along these lines, I decided to make a setting that takes place on a pocket plane between the elemental planes of air and water.  Here's the introduction which paints some broad brushstrokes of what's going on: Stormheart is a small but cosmopolitan trading town that mostly exists in a pocket on the border of the Planes of Air and Water, on a plane one hundred miles in radius that separates the Sky from The Deep , l...