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Also, there is a bundle of all Dolmenwood books right now drivethrurpg.com/product/241234/Everything-Dolmenwood-Print--PDF-BUNDLE And by the way, The Weird that Befell Drigbolton is in Softcover edition. I think they are going to issue a setting book **soon**, that's why they dropped the bundle. In Instagram, they (probably Gavin Norman himself) told me: "kind of [I asked if it is like all Wormskins combined?]." "The campaign book presents the setting background plus descriptions of all the hexes. So it'll collate a lot of the background articles from Wormskin, plus loads more info. Only 50 or so out of 180 odd hexes have been described in Wormskin, so that'll be a massive expansion too." "Overall, I'd say that this book will fulfill the promise that Wormskin has been hinting at."
Watching this review has given me many ideas to use for my current DnD campaign that's meant to be a love letter to Mordheim: City of the Damned. Thank you Ben!
Looks like it might be influenced by HP Lovecraft's "Color from Out of Space." I love rumors tables -- my model has always been "Keep on the Borderlands." I love making them for my own dungeons or when others include them. Plus it has a nice base the the PCs to work from, which makes campaign startup easier.
This looks like it would be a pretty sweet source of inspiration for one set of the events going on in a starting town. Good excuse to get a whole heap of ooze minis.
I bought the "everything dolmenwood"-bundle at drivethrurpg. Very greatful for your reviews of this and the wormskin issues, I wouldn't know about this otherwise. SPOILER ALERT: My thoughts after reading the adventure: It's like the movie Annihilation, in Dolmenwood. I picked up on the Color Out of Space-theme just by seeing this review, but I thought it would be a more of a light-hearted inspiration. After reading it, I must say that even though everything is kind of whimsical it's also filled to the brim with cosmic horror. This is one deadly adventure, and not because battle/hard encounters with high stats. Maybe your magic-user tries telepathy to talk with one of the pieces fallen of from the star: BAM! Insanity forever, his mind will be replaced with ever changing fractals of stars. Maybe the Thief/Rouge tries out the telescope(telling-scope): 1 in 6 chance of him seeing something that might blind him forever or drive him permanently insane. A great adventure! I really enjoy the mix between cosmic horror, whimsy and beauty. Keep it up!
Always love your vids dude. It would be quite cool if you did a vid on some 'one page dungeons'. There are lots of good ones of these on the net (there is some on reddit right now), and I find them very very helpful as they show what can be done in one page, and that oyu don't need pages of back story to make an adventure good.
6:36 places like these can be hooks or links into larger campaign worlds as well. This would fit well into Ravenloft. I really like random encounters and events in adventures. This is put together well with classic themes. I thought sky iron was a neat plot to explore in Beleriand, beyond the fate of Turin. (I do think game writers are overdoing it with occult symbols, even though this one fits, and it makes me question motives and people behind the production; not as bad a the entertainment industry of course).
That sonnenrad at the beginning is a little sus... It's a cool symbol with an interesting history, but damn maybe we could be careful with the nazi-adjacent symbology haha
@@QuestingBeast That's awesome. Thanks for the quick response. It makes sense aesthetically given that the setting has a fallen star and all. Shame about the associations it has lol
Join the Questing Knights on Patreon: bit.ly/QBPatreon
Download my RPGs and adventures: bit.ly/ItchStore
My favorite OSR books: bit.ly/TopOSRBooks
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We all need to support Dolmenwood, genuinely the most wonderful setting I have ever seen.
It’s great!
This adventure strikes me as a mashup of the 80's movie The Stuff, and Lovecraft's The Color out of Space....Love it!!!
PSA: All D&D books, including this one and the Wormskin zines, are on sale on Drivethrurpg.com through the month of May 2018, most at 20% off.
Awesome! I pinned this so more people will see it.
Also, there is a bundle of all Dolmenwood books right now drivethrurpg.com/product/241234/Everything-Dolmenwood-Print--PDF-BUNDLE
And by the way, The Weird that Befell Drigbolton is in Softcover edition.
I think they are going to issue a setting book **soon**, that's why they dropped the bundle.
In Instagram, they (probably Gavin Norman himself) told me:
"kind of [I asked if it is like all Wormskins combined?]."
"The campaign book presents the setting background plus descriptions of all the hexes. So it'll collate a lot of the background articles from Wormskin, plus loads more info. Only 50 or so out of 180 odd hexes have been described in Wormskin, so that'll be a massive expansion too."
"Overall, I'd say that this book will fulfill the promise that Wormskin has been hinting at."
The plan for the Campaign Book is currently early to mid 2019. (Not sure if you count that as "soon" or not ;)
Then there is another reason to pay attention to the Dolmenwood bundle =)
Watching this review has given me many ideas to use for my current DnD campaign that's meant to be a love letter to Mordheim: City of the Damned. Thank you Ben!
Looks like it might be influenced by HP Lovecraft's "Color from Out of Space." I love rumors tables -- my model has always been "Keep on the Borderlands." I love making them for my own dungeons or when others include them. Plus it has a nice base the the PCs to work from, which makes campaign startup easier.
This looks like it would be a pretty sweet source of inspiration for one set of the events going on in a starting town. Good excuse to get a whole heap of ooze minis.
Bought this a couple of weeks ago and was just waiting for you to review it lol.
I bought the "everything dolmenwood"-bundle at drivethrurpg. Very greatful for your reviews of this and the wormskin issues, I wouldn't know about this otherwise.
SPOILER ALERT:
My thoughts after reading the adventure: It's like the movie Annihilation, in Dolmenwood. I picked up on the Color Out of Space-theme just by seeing this review, but I thought it would be a more of a light-hearted inspiration. After reading it, I must say that even though everything is kind of whimsical it's also filled to the brim with cosmic horror. This is one deadly adventure, and not because battle/hard encounters with high stats. Maybe your magic-user tries telepathy to talk with one of the pieces fallen of from the star: BAM! Insanity forever, his mind will be replaced with ever changing fractals of stars. Maybe the Thief/Rouge tries out the telescope(telling-scope): 1 in 6 chance of him seeing something that might blind him forever or drive him permanently insane. A great adventure! I really enjoy the mix between cosmic horror, whimsy and beauty.
Keep it up!
Thanks a lot for the nice comments on my art, Ben. Anyone interested further can check out my website at www.andrewwalter.co.uk
i love your reviews
Always love your vids dude.
It would be quite cool if you did a vid on some 'one page dungeons'. There are lots of good ones of these on the net (there is some on reddit right now), and I find them very very helpful as they show what can be done in one page, and that oyu don't need pages of back story to make an adventure good.
I might do a bunch of reviews of the winners of this year's OPD contest. A bunch of good stuff always comes out on top.
Shades of HPL the colour out of space!
usapatriot4163 I hadn't thought of that connection, but you're totally right.
and an element of the movie The Stuff from the 80's.
6:36 places like these can be hooks or links into larger campaign worlds as well. This would fit well into Ravenloft. I really like random encounters and events in adventures. This is put together well with classic themes. I thought sky iron was a neat plot to explore in Beleriand, beyond the fate of Turin. (I do think game writers are overdoing it with occult symbols, even though this one fits, and it makes me question motives and people behind the production; not as bad a the entertainment industry of course).
That sonnenrad at the beginning is a little sus... It's a cool symbol with an interesting history, but damn maybe we could be careful with the nazi-adjacent symbology haha
The authors found out about the symbols connotations soon after publication and it was removed
@@QuestingBeast That's awesome. Thanks for the quick response. It makes sense aesthetically given that the setting has a fallen star and all. Shame about the associations it has lol
Another review! woo!