#037en - august 2024 TTRPG newsletter
The monthly TTRPG newsletter from Xapur
Pathfinder, Shadowdark, Phandalin…
What's new at my gaming table?
At last, my Pathfinder 2E campaign has begun, with a revamped group that has just begun to discover the small coastal village of Otari, and is already involved in solving a small problem in the basement of the fishery. A good place to start with the contents of the beginner box before getting down to serious business...
During the break, I started looking into the Shadowdark system and I'm finally thinking of using it for a mini-campaign in Greyhawk rather than AD&D as I originally planned (although I'll probably mix the two a bit...). I'll have to do an article on the Quickstart, especially as it's free.
Latest articles published on the blog
As always, my posts are written in french but your browser may propose to translate them
We're nearing the end of my Phandalin campaign for D&D, and this time the players have taken on elemental cults. This is just the beginning of this story arc (but also the beginning of the end of their adventures)!
I've launched a series of articles on my ttrpg magazine readings because I was told there was interest in it following my question in the previous newsletter. So I've published two articles this month, on back issues of Dragon Magazine (issue 220) and Casus Belli (french major ttrpg mag).
Readings and inspirations
Readings: I've finished rereading two volumes of the Malazan Book of the Fallen, Memories of Ice and House of Chains. Alternately, I read two SF novellas, Breathmoss by Ian MacLeod and Claire North's excellent Sweet Harmony.
TV series: I've pretty much abandoned screens and only watched the end of Formula One season 6. Only one film, Furiosa: a Mad Max saga, which was actually rather disappointing.
Creations, tips, shop…
Publications of the month
I'm publishing first on my Patreon page and this month I've created two battlemaps:
Haunted Cemetery - a cemetery with a private section
Wizard's Tower - 4 floors of unleashed magic!
This is the last days of my summer bundle: first two years of battlemap creations on DrivethruRPG, some thirty in all!
Current projects
not less than three One Page Dungeons: an isometric map, an ‘old school’ blue map and one based on the cover of the AD&D PHB!
a collection of NPCs for D&D campaigns around Phandaline
I'm still working on updating my mega #Dungeon23
I’m beginning to have a fairly huge number of creations so I’m working on a little database
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That’s it for this issue, see you soon!
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