Hand Drawn Map Video: Caves of Ghuvia (Part 18)

The unplanned mapping YouTube series continues with Part 18 of Caves of Ghuvia! Enjoy :) For more Laidback DM, click here.

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Lashunta Inspirational Memory - 3 years ago
Artist is Edward Robert Hughes (1851 - 1914)

This pic's title is _Valkyrie's Vigil_, and while it doesn't look terribly vigilant, it got me thinking about how Lashunta Outriders are essential an order of knighthood, often organized by city but with a sense of collegiality and code of honor that extends beyond municipal afflication. Maybe Lady Vaeol was obligated to stand vigil and contemplate dedication to her oath the night before she swore troth to Son under the light of Burning-Mother's temple. Did she face doubts in the night, of her own resolve, of her abilities? Looking back over nine Castrovellian years (4.5 human years) of narrative time, feel free to be the judge.

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Castrovel Inspirational Memory - 5 years ago
Artist is Ahmed Teilab

This pic is a lot less about Lashunta and more about the things that give Lashunta nightmares. For anyone following my installments of "A Castrovel Adventure", Vaeol is currently writing her entries from a ship heading northward along the Shattersea Coast. Her shipmates' great fear is for something like this to burst from the water, attack the ship, and drag crew to watery deaths...or worse.

When it comes to environment, and especially to the kinds of threats one populates it with, a worldbuilder needs to make choices on what I've come to call the Fluffiness-Creepiness Scale. In essence, this determines how much you wish to reassure or disturb your world's visitors. It's interesting that, over time, things like Dragons have become 'cool', which in my view means that fluffiness has begun creeping in. Right now, I'm leaning toward alien creepiness factors, like these double-jawed, giant lamprey things, the kinds of things that gave HP Lovecraft and RE Howard inspiration, and create the impression that Lashunta (or Humans) are not quite so dominant on their planet as they would like to believe.

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Immer diese Probleme beim Skill Increase mit der Entscheidung, was man denn jetzt erhöht. Momentan die Edition von Untrained auf Trained.

Nichts davon hilft so wirklich viel, außer vielleicht meinen Malus durch Stärke-Modi 0 (Thievery, Stealth, Acrobatics, Athletics) auszugleichen. Dummerweise sind die Werte dann nicht wirklich höher als vorher.

Einen größeren Effekt hätte es bei Performance (wann braucht man das schon?), Arcane, Occultism oder Society.

Und ich beglückwünsche mein Vergangenheitsich dafür, dass es sich seinerzeit für Clever Improviser entschieden hat. Damit kann ich auch die untrained Skills etwas pushen, sodass der -1 Rüstungsmalus zumindest ausgeglichen wird.

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As a teaser for Saturday, here's a snippet from Chapter 33, in which Lady Vaeol meets the Thriae delegation that has arrived in Son...

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