this is legitimately the most usable, intelligible reference sheet I’ve found for BitD. Absolutely stellar work.
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I really like this setting - it’s both prescriptive in its world-building (the world is ending and people seek salvation or glory or wealth or just hope in the northern seas) and open ended / sandbox-y (the exact specifics of what is causing the world to end and why folks seek those things in the north is somewhat vague). Much of the detail is revealed by generative tables, which is great!
These are very evocative, but short, tables, a few of which are nesting (meaning you roll on one table and then one or more sub-tables of varying sizes).
There’s an archipelago-crawling hex generation procedure that, again, is evocative but also very minimal.
My only real complaint is that there’s just not more here - it’s so freaking cool that I just want more tables, more procedures, more potential stuff that reveals this awesome setting.
Any plans to release more stuff?
I think them having a background “built in” would work based on my limited understanding of this tileset and the program.
I also think it would have to be the same piece of the background for all of the ‘base’ or terrain tiles unless you want there to be a sort of inconsistency in how they might line up.
Any chance these are usable with CONE's Hex Kit (or, if it's not an outrageous ask, be made usable with it)?
The part I'm particularly unsure of is how to get the background pic provided (or really anything appropriate) to serve as the bg of a map in Hex Kit - as it stands now, I think importing the individual hex images into Hex Kit would render them useable, but their transparency would sit on top of, if not more transparency, pure white.
Absolutely love the vibe of these!
Good morning!
We had a very brief exchange on reddit the other day about the Cairn x Dolmenwood game I'm in the process of starting and, wouldn't you know it, I ran into a question not the very next session!
How do you handle record-keeping for Hirelings, Mounts, &/or Pets (f.ex, the Ranger's Bloodhound)?
I flipped through my physical copy, scanned through the PDF, and ultimately took a gander at Mausritter, which I've been using to fill in any implied but not explicit qualities for the game thus far. Rather than yoinking Mausritter's hireling card (which I'm not ruling out just yet), what I wound up ruling (for my PC Ranger) was that the Bloodhound would get a single-slot inventory card that represented an abstraction of the accoutrements associated with keeping them and the "weight" of their bond. Is this what you would do?
Thanks!
Is there any chance of a Pages version of this being offered? The spreads are great on my desktop, but I read a lot on mobile/iPad.
Sorry if this is a huge ask, I don't know enough about design/layout of PDFs.
EDIT: Just realized that the corebook PDF actually includes this same adventure; no need for my request above. Thanks!
