To the Shard Isles! (Patreon)

This week, we’ve got the last Dungeon Backdrop in the Secret Name storyline for your download pleasure. Good old Bart Wynants has crafted another cracking, flavoursome locale for your characters to explore. Adapt it, make it your own and nudge your characters toward the Shard Isles!

About The Shard Isles

The sea swells with fury. All around you, great walls of black water rise menacingly, only to break apart upon the jagged rocks surrounding the islet. Their thunderous roar drowns out the voices of your companions and the salty spray stings your eyes, leaving you blind, deaf and chilled to the bone. It’s hard to believe only moments ago, you walked here from the shore across the reeking silt, the sullen waves still churning at a safe distance. Then rose the ravenous tide to greedily devoured your footprints in the mud. With the the brine now lapping hungrily at your heels, you gather a lungful of air and force open your eyes, catching a blurry glimpse of the savage water-world boiling up around you. With a prayer on your shivering lips, you barely make the jump across, pulling yourself up on a fistful of rotted kelp. Mere seconds later, another wave crashes in, roaring its frustration at your escape. Yet the inexorable tide continues to rise, and the greedy waves may claim you as their prey before retreating to the deep...

The Shard Isles is the third part of the Secret Name series of Dungeon Backdrops by Bart Wynants. You can download the free Storyline document at the Raging Swan Press store.

You can use the three Dungeon Backdrops as standalone adventures or weave them together into a larger sub-campaign.

Where's My Stuff?

As always, by the time you get this all patrons at the $2 and up levels should have a message from me containing the special secret download codes for this week's books. Just drop them into your browser and you should be good to go. If you have any problems, drop me a line and I'll sort it out for you.

I will shortly be creating one big free map download for all the Secret Name Dungeon Backdrops. When I do, I will post a link here.

The Gameatory

This week on the Gameatory, I revealed my thought process behind the name “Gloamhold” and rant that Long Sentences are Evil Monstrosities that must be expunged from all writing.

Gloamhold: What's in a Name? 

Long Sentences are Evil Monstrosities 

Into the Shadow Fane Expedition Maps 

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Thank You

As I’ve said before, thank you. Thank you for helping us weather the Covid storm. We are still standing because of you.

Have a fantastic weekend, enjoy the minions of evil and remember: Everything is Better with Tentacles! Particularly wind-swept, partially flooded islands…