My Patrons have spoken and have voted for me to work on an expansion of my hex, The Screaming Swamp, from the Tenkar’s Landing Project, Eilean Dubh. This was a community world building project, focused on an islands and the area around it. It started on G+ and finished a few months before the end of G+.

I’ll flesh out some hinted options for encounter tables and such. I plan to make it a stand alone swamp area with improved encounter tables from those in Eilean Dubh , with some ideas for adventures.

I packed a lot in a 6 mile hex, as published in Eilean Dubh. Making it a larger area with some ideas for generating swampy areas will fit with my theme of useful collections of tables as in my more well received PDFs.

You can get the free map and PDF at Dropbox.

You can order a softcover book from LuLu, here. (At cost for printing & shipping.)

You can get a canvas map of the Isle here. 

I discuss the release of Eilean Dubh in episode 6 of my podcast.

You can read what I’ve written about Eilean Dubh elswhere on my blog at this tag.

I look forward to discussing the details of this project with patrons on the monthly-pdf channel on the Patron Discord. 

My last post was about the 9th anniversary of the blog, which was yesterday, July 18th. Another cool event yesterday, in addition to session 210 of the Wednesday night AD&D game on Roll20 was the release of The Black Isle, AKA Eilean Dubh.

The Black Isle is the fruit of an OSR collaborative project that started back in 2014 to stat out a region centered on an island. Originally, the project was called Tenkar’s Landing, which is the main settlement on the island. We then decided to name the island. The project had most contributions in about 18 months, as I recall. Editing and layout are what took so long, for one person a 433 page PDF with contents, art, and an index is a huge task.

Fifty-four people stepped up and populated six mile hexes on and under the island and the surrounding area. There is a lot packed in, and some of us, like me, packed a lot into our hex. My contribution is The Screaming Swamp. I had a lot of fun putting it all together. A separate more realistic sized area for what I crammed in my hex is a project I have long thought about, but waited for the completion of this project. I blogged about it here and here. It doesn’t appear I went into detail of the finished product on the blog.

There are tables, new monsters, and I believe also new spells and items. This is a rich resource to run as is, or cherry pick for ideas. There are many years of adventure in this free supplement.

Podcast

I talked about it on episode 6 of my podcast.

Settlement

The second phase of the project is Tenkar’s Landing. As I recall all the work on that is done. There is a map by Dyson Logos. Now that the island is done, the next step is the town. I don’t know if there is the oomph to get it done, but it would be very cool to see the finished town to go with the rest of the setting.

The price is right, it is free and open source. You can see a lot of creativity and you get so many ideas, it would be difficult to use them all.

Where to Get It

You can download the 433 page PDF and 1 page map PNG from Google Drive.

The Black Isle PDF – Drop Box with both Map and PDF

The Black Isle Map PNG – Google Drive Map only

Elsewhere

Discussion on Reddit. [Added 08/12/2018]