Sunday, June 16, 2019

Fall of the Dwarves: A Free PDF Campaign Expansion to the CBI-2 The Rand Sourcebook

With the overwhelming response to the Thonian Rand Sourcebook I released last month, I could not stop thinking about the lands I had described within it, drawing on many different sources linked to Dave Arneson's World of Blackmoor. While the PDF is self contained, I felt like a campaign outline might have been useful to illustrate how this booklet might be used.


CBI-2 The Thonian Rand introduces the Duchy of Evedhur. The idea with Evedhur was to expand on the lore of Dwarves from the Blackmoor Campaign Setting. In Dave Arneson’s campaign, the dwarves were ruled by Oberstar Kazakhum , the Regent of the Mines. In CBI-2, I gave him a brother, Arkalist Kazakhum.

 My idea for the character Arkalist, was that this dwarf, like his brother, wanted a kingdom of his own and settled in a mountain chain in the Thonian Empire. Arkalist’s Duchy of Evedhur also allowed me to incorporate some of the material and characters from Clock & Steam, another Blackmoor sourcebook from Zeitgeist Games written for Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition. The following is the outline for a campaign where the players will have a chance to determine the fate of the Duchy of Evedhur and perhaps the entire world of Dave Arneson’s Blackmoor™

I hope you will like this campaign expansion as much as you enjoyed the Thonian Rand Sourcebook.


Download the Fall of the Dwarves Campaign Expansion here



-Havard

2 comments:

  1. I was asked elsewhere about the art. The "cover" image is something artist Lee Smith created for Age of the Wolf and is used with his permission. The creature is called a Herald of Thanatos. The adventure actually sets up a possible connection between The Thonian Rand and Age of the Wolf, although I only have limited knowledge about what the Age of the Wolf was really about :) More on all of this within the bookled itself :)

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  2. Once again, we get a kind comment on this from the Swords & Sticheries blog: https://swordsandstitchery.blogspot.com/2019/06/happy-birthday-osr-haul-new-free.html

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