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Why Norse Mythology? Why Vikings?
A few kind folks who have expressed excitement for my new project, Raiders of the Serpent Sea have also been curious as to why I have chosen these particular thematic elements for this campaign book. I think my introduction, which will appear in the forthcoming player’s guide, is probably the best explanation. The stories of Vikings have always lived large in our imaginations and there are as many flavors of these stories as there are storytellers. We imagine that these seafaring raiders lived as large in their world as they do in our stories; that they were boastful in the face of danger and took tremendous risks to secure their…
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Further Into the Serpent Sea…
Last week I was finally able to provide the title for my upcoming project. Going forward, I’ll now start explaining the world a bit more and what to expect from the Raiders of the Serpent Sea game master and player guides. Here’s a first look at the current back cover blurb for the player’s guide: Glory is Yours For The Taking Centuries ago, upon a vast, beautiful, and wondrous world, a horde of shape changing fiends known as the Yoten warred with the heroic Vanir. Betrayed by their own, the heroes failed and fell, one by one. Only upon the very edge of destruction did the survivors unleash ancient magic…
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Announcement: Raiders of the Serpent Sea
In an earlier post I explained that I am making a campaign book with Arcanum Worlds. Well… now is the time for the proper announcement! Raiders of the Serpent Sea is a Norse-themed campaign book for 5e and will be published by the fine folks over at Modiphius Entertainment. They have released a full update to their site about it if you want to learn more! A significant portion of the campaign book is complete, including some beautiful pieces of artwork from many of the same artists that worked on Odyssey of the Dragonlords. I intend to launch a Kickstarter (soon!) to help add more artwork, to pay for the…
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Dungeons & Dragons Campaign: Odyssey of the Dragonlords
Back in 2020 I proudly showed off my copies of Odyssey of the Dragonlords, a successful 5E D&D RPG Kickstarter by James Ohlen and Jesse Sky. At the time I mentioned I had started a campaign with my kids and some of their friends. Well the campaign is still going strong! We just completed the 39th session, with the heroes now level 13 and the Oath of Peace about to come to an end (you’ll have to read the campaign book to understand what that is about). Though I had previously played fifth-edition with my kids using the awesome starter set, the kids wanted new characters after that and so…
