I've made a single PDF file out of all the posts from my Original D&D setting series. It's available as a publicly accessible Google document here:
OD&D Setting
Kudos to James Mishler for the excellent map that is on the first page.
I'd really like to hear stories from referees who use any of these ideas in their games, and how it goes - should be a fair sight different from "vanilla" Dungeons & Dragons! Thanks to all the people who've had kind words as this series went on, it was a lot of fun.
Thanks for putting this together!
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ReplyDeleteThanks for compiling this for the rest of us.
ReplyDeleteStupid question. The tall symbols are supposed to be castles and the smaller blobs are supposed to be towns or cities? Is that right? How are towns/cities defined in terms of population if at all.
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Awesome! Thanks so much!
ReplyDeleteThis is so cool! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteFolks who like the OD&D Setting should check out the excellent list of backgrounds that Zach over at the Zenopus Archives blog put together for it.
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[brace for heresy] The implied setting, so much of it empty of civilized habitation, reminds me more than a bit of the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon.
ReplyDeleteWhat a head trip. It explains some of the later Monster Manual entry ratios like why so many dinosaurs? I searched Google for, "The map from Avalon Hill's Outdoor Survival" and it gave me a Google Maps choice. When Maps couldn't find it, it asked if I would like to submit the map. I thought about downloading Bat's PDF
ReplyDeletehttp://batintheattic.blogspot.com/2009/11/original-southlands-map.html and then planting it in Antarctica. Imagine if others joined in and we mapped out the Lost World!
Great work. I'm inspired to run a hex crawl with it. Now we know how the gonzo settings like Arduin and Wilderlands came to be... it was out of the foundational lore.
ReplyDeleteJust doing a deep dive to find a good world map for mutant future game, stumbled upon this Mishler map, which lead me back to this! And now I'm rereading this awesome setting.
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