{"id":621,"date":"2016-11-22T03:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T03:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tawmis.com\/kneurth\/?page_id=621"},"modified":"2021-12-30T06:46:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T06:46:19","slug":"campaign-references","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/tawmis.com\/kneurth\/campaign-references","title":{"rendered":"Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Want to help? Consider becoming a&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/kneurth\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Patreon.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<hr \/>\n<p>What house rules do I have in place? <a href=\"http:\/\/tawmis.com\/kneurth\/campaign-references\/house-rules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Find out here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Want to see the extensive list of NPCs, places, and such? <a href=\"http:\/\/tawmis.com\/kneurth\/campaign-references\/notable-ships-places-and-npc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some tidbits and references where some of my campaign ideas come from.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Broken Hand:<\/strong> The Broken Hand tribe of orcs was originally created when I was probably about 12 years old, trying to write my own master piece that would parallel <em>The Hobbit.<\/em> That never happened &#8211; but the main &#8220;bad guys&#8221; were a large band of Orcs known as <em>The Broken Hand.<\/em> That band of orcs had made it into <em>every single one of my D&amp;D campaigns <\/em>that I have DMed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Ivory Coast:<\/strong> There is a street several blocks from where I currently live where the street name is <em>Ivory Coast. <\/em>I really liked the name, so when I started the second leg of the adventure (and began 5th Edition) with all new characters; I created a new continent and made the major city called <em>The Ivory Coast<\/em> with the inland area called <em>The Ivory Vale<\/em> and came up with the history of the Ivory Coast based on the name.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ridgecrest:<\/strong> One day, on our way to (or was it from?) Mammoth (California), I saw a sign for a town called Ridgecrest. I absolutely loved the name and jotted it down on my notepad iPhone App to use one day. When I started the new game with 5th Edition, Ridgecrest was born into my world &#8211; but I didn&#8217;t have much for it planned out.<\/li>\n<li>Then one day on my way to work, I pass an apartment\/condo complex called &#8220;<strong>High Ridge<\/strong>.&#8221; And that gave birth to the idea that Ridgecrest was split between three area, dependent on the person&#8217;s social class; High Ridge (Rich), Mid Ridge (Middle Class), Low Ridge (Slums).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shadow Mountain<\/strong> (above Spire&#8217;s Edge) is a place up near Mammoth (near Ridgecrest, since I had seen both signs fairly close to one another if I remember correctly).<\/li>\n<li><strong>West Brook<\/strong> is a street near where I live.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pern&#8217;s Rest<\/strong> was a name inspired by Dragons of Pern (books, because that area has white dragons).<\/li>\n<li><strong>New Moon<\/strong> Forest comes from ElfQuest. Cutter&#8217;s sword is named New Moon.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Fern Dale<\/strong> is the street where I (curently) live (Ferndale).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Silver Crown<\/strong> castle is an alias for Grey Skull (a He-Man reference).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nor&#8217;Orn<\/strong> &#8211; a goblin NPC comes from <strong>Nor<\/strong>man\u00a0Osb<strong>orn<\/strong>, who is the Green Goblin in the Spider Man comics<\/li>\n<li><strong>Boogle<\/strong> &#8211; Boogle is a boggle who was experimented on and his flesh turned a purplish pink color and is a reference to\u00a0<em>Boogle<\/em> from the game\u00a0<strong>Torin&#8217;s Passage<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In the world of Kne&#8217;Urth &#8211; it varies than standard D&amp;D in regards to Driders. Standard D&amp;D &#8211; Driders are shunned by Drow. In Kne&#8217;Urth &#8211; only females can become Driders &#8211; and only the faithful survive the process, physically taking up the embodiment of their long, forgotten, ancient goddess<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sand Sharks<\/strong> &#8211; I introduced &#8220;Sand Sharks&#8221; &#8211; sharks that actually swim in the sand in <a href=\"http:\/\/tawmis.com\/kneurth\/adventure-notes\/adventure-notes-the-adventurers\/adventure-notes-the-adventurers-51-60\/adventure-notes-the-adventurers-52\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Session 52<\/a> of one of my games. This was a nod to one of my favorite monsters in <em>Star Frontiers<\/em> also known as a &#8220;sand shark&#8221; that swims through sand. I made the Sand Sharks very memorable to the party (i.e., very dangerous and feared). So that was quite wonderful to have left a lasting impression on the players, since the creatures in <em>Star Frontiers<\/em> had left a lasting impression on me<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to help? Consider becoming a&nbsp;Patreon. What house rules do I have in place? Find out here. Want to see the extensive list of NPCs, places, and such? Read it here. 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