Author Archives: Tolrendordm

Midgard: The World is Ready …

As many of you will know, Kobold Press (formerly Open Design/Kobold Quarterly) recently launched a new major product: Midgard Campaign Setting. This is a full fantasy world based on Wolfgang Baur’s personal campaign, which we’ve been lucky enough to share … Continue reading

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Wizards Watch: An Admission

Ok, Ok! I’m one of the eighty-five thousand plus people that have downloaded the DnD Next Playtest material, according to Mike Mearls himself (who should know…) Thing is, I have to admit that I haven’t actually played it! And the … Continue reading

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RPG Blog Carnival: Playing in Established Settings

This month’s RPG Blog Carnival is over at Dice Monkey, and takes on the topic of RPG play in established settings! So what do we get out of established settings that make them appealing, or not!? Well the first answer … Continue reading

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Midgard Goodies

This post almost made it as my Tech Talk column of the month, or my Map of the Month … but in the end it stands on it’s own 🙂 The Midgard Campaign Setting is the upcoming product from Open … Continue reading

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RPG Tech Talk: ORP and the Die (or Dice…)

In the July RPG Tech Talk column, I talked about the concept of the Open Roleplaying Platform, or ORP. Briefly, this is the concept of a suite of software tools that together form a viable platform for computer assisted table-top … Continue reading

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Map of the Month: Earlsdale Interactive Map

This month’s Map of the Month column is another call-out to one of the awesome maps that are available out there on the internet. Grimur Fjeldsted is a cartographer that may be known to CC3 users, as his site MapVentures is linked … Continue reading

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RPG Tech Talk: An e-Module Kickstarter

A few months back I talked about the potential of the new iBooks format for RPG publications – and in fact how I was a little underwhelmed by the iBooks Author software. Well, now it seems that there is an interesting … Continue reading

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Content Corner: Havenscoast Locales

It’s been a slow couple of months on the blog front – a combination of work and summer holidays to blame – things just haven’t been progressing as I’d like! The ‘Havenscoast Project‘ is one such example; the last time … Continue reading

Posted in 4E D&D, Area Map B4: The Havenscoast, Columns, Content Corner, Self-publishing, The Havenscoast Project, Tolrendor Gazetter | 12 Comments

DM for Kids: Holiday Packing

Yay, its the summer holidays, and the kids are now off school. We’re off on holiday at the end this week, and obviously we hope the weather is going to be such that beaches and swimming are the main order of … Continue reading

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Wizards Watch: Summer lull; Storm clouds gather…

There seems to be a strange eerie calm around the RPG space right now. It’s not necessarily the sort of calm that makes you feel calm … its more the oppressive lull before the thunder booms and the lightning strikes … Continue reading

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