The Demon Verge Map

Here is the map I've created (using the free version of Hexographer) for my campaign inspired by Demonlord.

It's been stocked and keyed according to the guidelines laid out in Sine Nomine Publishing's An Echo, Resounding, a Labyrinth Lord-compatible resource that I've found extremely useful. It's a relatively simple take on the D&D "endgame" of domain management and warfare that tells GMs how to create a sandbox in easily digestible "baby steps", which is more my speed than Adventurer Conqueror King, an excellent game that packs in more economic detail than I will likely need, and which I honestly don't feel smart enough to run. After trying and failing to run a big megadungeon-based campaign, baby steps are what I need right now.

The western side of the map -- the now-weakened Duchy of D'Ansor, the Principality of Timur, and the Barony of Barthek -- is where the players will start the campaign, which is why there's a lot more detail there. (I'm calling this area "the Demon Verge", as it represents the far eastern reaches of human civilization, bordering on the Demons' empire.) If the players end up deciding to travel to the more hostile central regions, or even the Demon-ruled province of Nisshar, I will have to generate some lairs, ruins, and resources for those areas as well.

Back to the Island

Courtesy of my good friend Bret Woods, here's the revised and beautified map of the Isle of Cosk, where most of the action of my campaign setting, The Bladed Earth, will take place. As you can see, the northwestern chunk of the island is a good deal more fleshed out than the rest.

(The original, ugly version is here.)

If anybody's interested in checking out what I've got written up so far, check out the Bladed Earth wiki. It's being worked out in a very haphazard fashion thus far, and it's sort of on hold while I figure out if I want to keep writing it with Labyrinth Lord in mind, or if I want to use the Adventurer Conqueror King system.

Since I became a backer of the game, I have to admit that I'm leaning toward the latter. ACKS looks like it's going to support the style of game I want to run a little more readily than Labyrinth Lord does. Obviously this means that most of the LL-based house rules I've posted to the wiki won't apply.

Anyway, if you'd like to have a look, feel free.