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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.

Current Games

  • Skull & Shackles - my last Table Top game - now gone into abeyance.
  • 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 - Runs on RPoL It is not one of my worlds, but I run a couple of groups and help out with world design.

Projects

  • The Old Frontier - Reworking some existing towns and villages for a new online setting
  • QuAD - Reimagining an old project. Rule for QUick And Dirty roleplaying,
  • Thistletop - Building a Stronghold in Rise of the Runelords.

Consolidated Game World

  • Overview - set around the Hann sea, game areas that I have written come together in one large, consolidated, game world.
  • The Hann Empire - A disparate trading empire, with three strong nations and their smaller compatriots - spread over thousands of miles.
  • Neighbours - Smaller states that aren't part of any of the other groupings, but who have trade and familial links with Imperial States, Sakhar or East Telida. This includes some Dwarf and Elf enclaves.
  • Sakar - Al Qadim / Fantasy Arabia / Lankhamar - in a pseudo North African setting. My Long Standing 'competition' for Hann.
  • East Telida - Much less organized, less of a state and more of a 'less civilized' region, with a few small, and independent, states.
  • Sinan - A mash-up of oriental cultures, that now acts as a very distant opposition. Set in the far west!
  • Races - Some races, such as Dwarves, Elves, Orcs and Hobgoblins have their own independent states - others, such as halflings, half-elves and half-orcs just fit in where ever they can.

Background and Adventuring areas

  • Adventuring areas - good places to start adventures - most are a part of documented and mapped regions with access to wilderness and unmapped space - suitable for 'Big Baddies'.
  • History - a broad brushstrokes overview of the consolidated history of the region.
  • Religion - The Mythology, Pantheons and Deities of the world.
  • Economy - How the economy works - in broad terms.

House Rules

  • Pathfinder House Rules - The collection of house rules, social settings and house interpretations for games I run.
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  • Campaign System II - Build Homes, Businesses and Strongholds - based on GP values
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  • Library IC documents that support aspects of game play.

Characters and Organizations

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.

Older Projects

  • 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 …

Other Stuff

Miscellaneous - a few floor plans.

I quite like this houseboat :)

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