JohnB's Games

This site is the hub for the games material I have written over the years. I wrote the first pages of my games site in 2000, and I haven't stopped since. I still have an archive of pre-2000 material on paper …

The Legendarium - songs, stories and legends.

• Skull & Shackles - my Table Top game - we meet every few weeks.
• The Birthday Game - This table-top game takes place once a year, over the weekend of my wife's birthday, and is my present to her. Our players arrive on Friday night, and we play through until Sunday lunchtime - as we pretend that we are all young again.
• Netherworld - not one of my worlds, but I run a couple of groups and help out with world design.

• The Hann Empire - My consolidated game world, which includes elements from every game setting I have developed.
• Sakar - Al Qadim / Fantasy Arabia / Lankhamar - in a pseudo North African setting. My Long Standing 'competition' for Hann. They have a history of slave raiding, invasion and occupation - But now reduced to a sullen opposition.
• Sinan - A mash-up of oriental cultures - that now acts as 'an enemy' in the DraiShon Archipelago region. Perhaps ironically, set in the far west of my game world.
• East Telida - Much less organized, less of a state and more of a 'less civilized' region, with a few small, and independent, states.
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• Adventuring areas
• The Drai Shon Archipelago - under development as a Piracy & Colonization game.
• Galinia - an old game area, revitalized as a NWN persistent world.
• Finaroka - Not, currently, under development. It has a mainland foothold, ready to serve as a base for an exploration party.
• East Telida - Not, currently, under development, but plenty of wild and barbarous borders, just calling out for adventurers.
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• Background Material
• Religion - The Mythology, Pantheons and Deities of the world.
• Economy - How the economy works - in broad terms.
• Trade - House Ruled system for trade - moving trade goods between Towns, cities and countries.
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• House Rules Character Creation, Regional Traits, Building Rules, Ships & Boats.
• Background Material - Rules, Cultures and OOC material.

• Library Documents that support aspects of game play.
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• Pathfinder House Rules - The collection of house rules, social settings and house interpretations for games I run.

Over the years, I have had a number of 'Favourite' characters, some were part of adventuring families - either built in association with other players or I finished up playing more than one generation of the family. Others helped start businesses, companies or organizations.

• Character Directory - Favourite characters that I play, or have played in the past.
• Family Directory - Families that my characters have been a part of.
• Organization Directory - PC run organizations that I have been involved with.

• Traveller Classic Traveller - from the old days :)
• Old Game Settings - RP worlds and settings that have been used to host various games.
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• Classless - A project to work a set of rules for a game, based on D&D, that didn't use character classes. It didn't work out as well as I hoped. The system worked, BUT it didn't feel like D&D.
• standard_buildings - floor plans for various buildings. They were built for D&D or Pathfinder games - but they should work for most fantasy worlds.
• My old game site - all sorts of games and rules are linked from here. Much of this work has been tweaked and rewritten as part of my campaign system.
• Old Stuff - This is an even earlier game site! Much of this work has been tweaked and rewritten as part of my campaign system.

• Neverwinter Nights - I worked on a few NWN worlds, most of which never quite got off the ground. However, I was a developer on Champions of Vidor, a persistent world with quite a few regular players. Unfortunately, that world died just before the introduction of NWN2 - and I never really got into NWN2 in the same way …
  • http://gilar-pw.wikidot.com/ - this was pretty much a solo effort that stayed online for a few months - before NWN2 was released.
  • http://akanaar.wikidot.com/
  • http://eots-pw.wikidot.com/

Miscellaneous - a few floor plans.