So, if you haven’t got the 2018 Gold ENnie award-winning ‘The Midderlands’ physical book yet, now is a great opportunity, while stocks last.
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Don’t forget to add a Midderlands map to your order. Why not pick up The Midderlands Expanded, and Midderzines Issues 1 and 2 as well.
Offer expires on 28th December 2018.
All orders expected to be shipped after Christmas.
An old school adventure set in a damp version of the north of England (Havenland) near the Scottish (Scrottish) border. The Romans (Gomans) left their mark on the landscape in more ways than one. Of course, this adventure is compatible with The Midderlands settings, and Swords & Wizardry or other retroclone rules.
Players Introduction
The adventure takes place in the north of Havenland, near to the Scrottish borders by the Kelderwater lake (see Hex M09 of The Haven Isles map).
Ebeneezer Garbett, a local farmer from the mushroom-filled valley village of Otterdale, returned to the hamlet with tales of riches he had found. Now, no-one has seen him since, and he villagers are becoming ill with a strange fungal infection.
Game Master’s Information
A farmer from the small village of Otterdale has discovered the ruins of an ancient Goman fortification. Half-buried in a hillside, it has been revealed by recent torrential rains.
Taking the gold he discovered there back to the village, the farmer is unaware that he has disturbed a dormant fungal creature known as the Mullach Dubh – a mould that grows on the dead, absorbing their memories and re-animating their bodies into a terrible half-life.
Unaware of this, the farmer — Ebeneezer Garbett — returned to his farmstead and succumbed to the toxic spores that he had breathed in. However, his stories had already drawn treasure seekers to the area in search of Goman riches. These adventurers, the Eagle’s Talon Adventuring Company, disappeared into the fortress and were likewise subsumed into the fungal colony.
People in Otterdale who had contact with Ebeneezer have begun to succumb to the spores, growing sick and then returning from death as grim parodies of their former selves. Meanwhile, the controlling colony seeks to use these new ‘workers’ to rebuild the glories of the long-gone Goman Empire.
This adventure is intended for low level play and can be scaled up or down accordingly. It should work best with 4× Level 1-4 player characters.
48-pages, die-drop chart to rear. You can check out the quick flip-through here:
Check out the briefest glimpse of one of the battlemaps I did for the set at 12:07 (underside) and 12:11 (he’s looking at it). It is part of a round tower. That’s one quarter of the four pieces that connect together to make that battlemap).
Check the box out for yourself – https://www.beadleandgrimms.com/.
Expensive as a single purchase, but for a combined gaming group purchase I bet it will give you enough fodder for a year of sessions.
Oh crap! I might have a new addiction I need to curb. As well as Kickstarters for books I hoard on shelves, I now have a need to buy miniatures I don’t use much.
Thanks Schleich.
For comparison, this critter is non-Schleich. The rust monster in the featured image header above (and below) was one I got in a pack of plastic soldiers or something or other. I think there is a story about this creature, and that the D&D rust monster was actually designed because of the availability of this miniature. I’m sure there is a link on the web somewhere to its origins.
I deeply suspect the fighter has not encountered one of these before.
To be fair, the mini is shit. Quality was not at the forefront of the manufacturers mind here. I suspect that they envisaged it being covered in baby saliva and getting gummed to death.
Anyhow. Back to Schleich. I’m getting a T-Rex for Christmas. Because I am a 40+ year old man-baby, and it makes me smile. However, not before I garnered two more delightful character-killers…
Octopus
He’s a sucker for a fight.
And a Crocodile… Yes, a damn, big crocodile.
It’s a toothed-rotaty-limb-breaker.
I’m feeling pretty pleased with myself about these. I shall attempt to weave them into my setting sessions with as much game-juice as I can siphon.
Behind The Walls
Shit the bed. Proofs have shipped. Getting close now.
Other Things
While I am here. Two crowdfunding campaigns to advise you of (again)… but these are now ending VERY SOON.
1) The Hero of Deathtrap Dungeon
Yes, THE Deathtrap Dungeon. Currently 71% funded at 30hrs remaining mark. I’m on in game maps, so please give it some love:
A while back, I went to a local zoo. On the way out, I visited their gift shop and was struck by the Schleich miniatures they had on sale of various zoo creatures and other cattle/farm animals. I decided to get a couple because the quality was so good. Not cheap particularly, but saved a lot of painting time. Some parts are posable, but generally they are stock-posed. Example: The Dunkleosteus’ jaw moves up and down.
I got the Barapasaurus and the Dunkleosteus.
The Wildlife products have great predator animals like bears, wolves, rhinos, elephants, tarantulas and Great White sharks, octopi, etc. The scale of these might be a bit too big, but as giant versions they are GREAT. The wolf is about 2″ tall. https://www.schleich-s.com/en/GB/wild-life.html
There has been a high demand for commission works on the run up to Christmas and afterwards, and also I need to prepare for the upcoming February Kickstarter for The City of Great Lunden – City Setting book.
I will no longer be accepting commissions unless they are for work after the end of January 2019.
It is done… Behind The Walls is coming very soon in A5 Print and PDF formats…
Uploaded to OBS, print proof will be ordered as soon as it’s freed pre-press.
Great writing by John.
Front cover art by Glynn Seal.
