My 5e campaign is currently nearing the end of the miniarc taking place in chris kutaliks slumbering ursine dunes. My most recent session saw the group stumbling into qelong. Slumbering ursine dunes is now available for you nonbackers on drivethrurpg and rpgnow in pdf. The major points of the content are a small scale, keyed wilderness, two medium sized. Whether you want to use the slumbering ursine dunes as the start for a campaign, or as a sidetrack for characters looking for new excitements, there are things for you in this module. Just lay them out in front of the players or behind the screen as needed. I bought slumbering ursine dunes and the thing i like best about pointcrawls is the ability to shuffle them as needed. Deluxe edition i have whitebox fmag in physical format. Ive previously contributed to slumbering ursine dunes and feverdreaming marlinko, and am currently editing misty isles of the eld.
For those of you who dont know him, under the moniker melan, lux was a valuable contributor to early osr conversations. Hydra collective llc is best known for its weird and wonderful fantasy pointcrawl adventures such as slumbering ursine dunes and misty isles of the eld, but weird adventures presents a different fantastical setting, a strange new world influenced by raymond chandler and robert chambers, e. A city supplement, focusing on something usable at the table. Slumbering ursine dunes by hydra collective kickstarter. I printed out the pregens from the modules, the two page class spreads from ose, and the two and three page print outs of 1st level cleric and 1st level magicuser spells. As one travels, the climate becomes drier and the soil loose and sandy. Feverdreaming marlinko was an experiment in reforming the city setting book. Nothing helps more than honest critical assessment and fortunately ive been receiving much to think about how to up my game from thoughtful participants in our milieu. The extended dance version series omnibus before we get into todays matter at hand, if you find this blog helpful and most of all want to help me get a new hill cantons book out please consider backing my patreon. There is no complex academic concept of spatial overlapping or representationcongruence here, which, in less academic terms, means that oldschool veterans who consider some of the newer books. If you have slumbering ursine dunes, and you should, its great. I have uploaded the almost complete except for some art version of my labyrinth lord rules compatible space hulk exploration game. Review of slumbering ursine dunes rpgnet rpg game index. Ive been looking everywhere but i cant find it or anything similar.
You get the final published copy of the slumbering ursine dunes in drmfree pdf format and the immediate gratification of the draft pdf above. I came across these two freepwyw products on drivethrurpg. Beyond the big ticket adventure sites you will find along the way a polevikhaunted rye field, a zardoz headliving hermit, bearling pilgrimage site, antediluvian beaver engineers and other assorted madness. The first release of the hydra collective one hopes the first of many and the first kickstarter i ever back to deliver on time. A 25site pointcrawl of the otherwordly slumbering ursine dunes region. Unlike the more abstract weird geographies that can be found in e.
Ruined ghinor does the slumbering ursine dunes setting out east along the coast, the slumbering ursine dunes lie fifty miles from the port town of wolsdag. There are 11, if you count the 0level commoner occupation you begin with before the funnel subtracts from the herd and reveals the strongest and luckiest. So, i was excited to see how chris would realize these ideas in a more formal product, such as slumbering ursine dunes original kickstarter, current rpgnow pdf. For a quick overview, the atmosphere of sud is one part slavic mythology, one part moorcock. Fantastic medieval adventure game untold adventures.
Slumbering ursine dunes 1 welcome to the dunes slumbering ursine dunes is an openended, minisandbox adventure focused on exploration in a small, bounded area. Though the isles are situated directly across a sea channel from the slumbering ursine dunes this product is completely compatible with the product of that name and the cityadventure. Makes the setting more fluid and easier to adapt to player interruption. Receive the published copy of the slumbering ursine dunes in drmfree pdf format and the draft pdf. Review ursine dunes marlinko misty isles hill cantons. Feverdreaming marlinko, the isolated, bounded nature of the isles make them easy to slot into any large body of water in your own campaign. Slumbering ursine dunes is known to the outside world for three things. Part citysetting, part fullblown adventure, feverdreaming marlinko is a standalone companion to the slavic acid fantasy weirdness of the slumbering ursine dunes. This post is the first in a series of interviews with hydra partners and authors, discussing their settings and perspectives on design. Crnobogs well, a pointcrawl entry for the slumbering ursine dunes chris kutalik has a kickstarter going for his slumbering ursine dunes sandboxing region, a slavikflavored madhouse of a desert, complete with polearmbearing. Slumbering ursine dunes is a gaming product currently being polished and kickstarted by chris k.
Slumbering ursine dunes and feverdreaming marlinko yore. That it features daves own quirky art is just gravy. Well, you are in luck because the pdf is now available via fine purveyors of rpg materials online. Another pointcrawl, this time dealing with a semiextraplanar invasion of the main campaigns reality.
Run, play or splice up 66 pages of mayhem and weirdness in this slavic mythicinspired with an acid fantasytwist minisandbox for labyrinth lord or the wellaged fantasy rpg of your druthers. This 9 page document is just a list of stats, but it still might contain spoilers if you were planning on. Dunes is in a mystical dream wilderlands worthy of a moorcock short story. Clonesimulacrum systems and related products count, but. Slumbering ursine dunes strong points are wellrealised factions, two good dungeons, evocative imagery and trappings, and its pointcrawl layout, where instead of a hex or a freeform map, the setup layouts out the various points of interest that pcs are likely to encounter along the way.
All four sudkickstarter books backtoback in sequence. This 9 page document is just a list of stats, but it still might contain spoilers if you were planning on playing through this campaign. Yesterday the party was finishing up at the tower location and i knew their next target was the golden barge that they had spotted from there. On grub ridges and meat machines covers the giant, essentially impossible to harm, grubs that divide the island into the various areas. Here, hydra partner trey causey discusses his work on the land of azurth. Crnobogs well, a pointcrawl entry for the slumbering. Background and hooks for the citys four contradas, city quarters with their own peculiar traditions, sites and even gods.
Slumbering ursine dunes players map of the golden barge. So we were pretty happy to have slumbering ursine dunes and strange stars artist david lewis johnson pitch us his manuscript for a gonzo city campaign, gathox vertical slum, with a heavy emphasis on the verticaland a rather clever downtime system based on the savage world of krul. Beyond the big ticket adventure sites you will find along the way a polevik. This spell is only effective outdoors and will summon one normal woodland creature within 1 mile of the caster. Phill, there are only ten levels in dcc at this time.
Through various machinations and jesuitical maneuverings i have managed to obtain an alpha copy of ursine dunes and the permission to. Tell me about advanced labyrinth lord page 2 rpg pub. The slumbering ursine dunes are west of the deep carbon observatory, which is northwest of stonehell, which is southwest of the monastery from horror on the hill, which is south of the hidden valley from nights dark terror, which is south of deathfrost mountain, and so on. I bought misty isles of the eld a few days ago and read it, which caused me to go back and reread slumbering ursine dunes and feverdreaming marlinko as well as rereading the two compendiums and the cosmology document. We arent big fans of expensive pdfs and have intentionally kept the price modest and affordable to reflect that. Like slumbering ursine dunes before it, feverdreaming marlinko contains two complete adventure sites, one of which is a little bigger than the other. Published by the hydra collective llc following a successful kickstarter campaign, it is the first part of a trilogy of supplements. Note that this doesnt include many of the stretch goals available only to backers of the hill cantons completeish tier. The animal is determined by the referee based on the local fauna and must be equal to or less than the hd of the gakusho.
Slumbering ursine dunes 2014 hydra cooperative edition. It has been designed to work either as the framework for a short campaign in its home setting or more likely in your case as a slottable area along a. So expect to see slumbering ursine dunes, marlinko, misty isles and what ho under one cover with one unified, sharper, more userfriendly layout. They could interrogate a named eld leader from slumbering ursine dunes or feverdreaming marlinko, acquire a map, by using a patron, using the golden barge from slumbering ursine dunes or by simple handwaving. Heres a snippet from the introduction to set the tone. All of these works are all done by chris kutalik of hills cantons fame, and are set in his hill cantons setting, which mixes vancian dyingearth. The first pointcrawl module, focusing on a single hex and the multiple factions vying for control there.
Slumbering ursine dunes is a great introduction to running premade sandbox games. Beyond the big ticket adventure sites you will find along the. Its a previous printing but the changes are mostly cosmeticlayout. Instead having a map, one could have a series of index cards to use instead. American fantasy, in trey causeys land of azurth hydra.
Slumbering ursine dunes run, play or splice up 66 pages of mayhem and weirdness in this slavic mythicinspired with an acid fantasytwist run, play or splice up 66 pages of mayhem and weirdness in this slavic mythicinspired with an acid fantasytwist. Its compact, practical, and has slavic werebears, so whats not to love. Pick up a copy of slumbering ursine dunes for yourself from rpgnow its totally worth the money. These are fullykeyed, and more than suitable for use as intermittent sojourns between exploring the rest of zem or your own setting. Taking its cue its title, if not its cue, from sleeping bear dunes national lakeshore, slumbering ursine dunes is a minisandbox style setting designed for characters of between second and fourth level for use with goblinoid games labyrinth lord. Improved information presentation for dungeon masters and. Slumbering ursine dunes is a great introduction to running.
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