Tuesday, October 6, 2009

The One-Page Wilderness


Sean at Bite the Bulette has done a very nice one-page Wilderness, inspired by Will Douglas's Northmarch. I hope we see more of these from the old-school blogosphere!

I did a sort of "one-sheet" Wilderness a while back, when I was putting alot of stuff together for Microlite20; a campaign setting on one (front and back of a) sheet, called Lands of Lyrion. You can gaze upon its pulp-fantasy-inspired cheesiness here.

I think I might do a similar one-sheet for my mystery campaign mini-setting discussed here, just to see what it would look like. Sort of like Lyrion, but on a smaller scale, I'd want a tiny bit of detail on the towns and cities, some "lurid lairs", and perhaps a small pantheon of deities.

9 comments:

  1. That's Sean Will's awesome work, at the Bite the Bulette blog, not mine (I'm also "Bulette" at the S&W forums). Just to avoid any confusion! Hey Sean, sign yer blog posts! ;-)

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  2. A Bulette by any other name...;)

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  3. Thanks for the post edit, I steal other people's game ideas all the time, but taking credit for it I can't bring myself to do! -zb

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  4. Something is wrong with your link to Bite the Bulette. The link is going here:

    http://beyondtheblackgate.blogspot.com/2009/08/btbg-reader-complete-chronicles-of.html

    instead of where it should be here:

    http://bitethebulette.blogspot.com/2009/10/one-page-wilderness-upper-craikley.html

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  5. man, I must have been sleepy this morning...

    fixed!

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  6. Thanks Al + the real Bulette. Also Lyrion's great, it's got it all.

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  7. Hi, Do you have any other Lands of Lyrion material that you could share with us?

    I found the Scrolls of Kronus thread
    http://necromancergames.yuku.com/topic/10383
    and really liked the write up of the City of Neethra. Have you written anything for any of the other cities?

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  8. Hi Stephen,

    No, I don't really have a lot about the setting (posted online, at least). It was more a challenge to myself to see if I could put a setting with its own flavor together in one page in keeping with the design ethic of M20. There are some fan resources here and there around the net, like this:

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/dystmesis/lyrion.jpg

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