The Desert Road
The Desert Road is a worldbuilding project I did over the course of a week or two in December 2012 and January 2013. It's a sort of pulpy action-adventure type dealie, set in and around a huge mysterious desert.
The Blog Posts
Since I haven't written it up formally as such, probably the easiest way to get familiar with the setting is to read through the blog posts I wrote as I was making it.
- Parameters
- In and Out
- Maps
- Dirty Politics
- Goblins
- Magic
- Bird People?
- Errata?!
- More magic!
- Frustration
- The Unnamed Mechanical Humanoids
- On Gunpowder
- The Desert
- Religion, History, and Originality
- Finished.
Rules bits
I eventually decided on Savage Worlds for the game system. I've written races, some new edges, and some new hindrances for it. You should be able to just use the core rules, but there's no reason you couldn't also use the Fantasy companion for extra spells and items and such. It's not necessary though.
You can find those here.
I also got as far as writing a couple of races for Pathfinder and some ideas about a magic system (since one of my design paramaters was 'burn Vancian spell slots in a fire'). That... didn't work out, but you can find what I did write here. Just be warned that it's messy, to say the least.
Extras?
Here are a couple of things which you might be interested in:
- A couple of maps. One by me, from when I was making the setting, and another by a guy called James (who also designed the Assembled race), who made the map cause he felt like it.
- A long winded and vitriolic rant I wrote about Pathfinder, which I didn't blog because it wasn't really relevant. A lot of the stuff in there still needs to be said though, so I'm putting it here.
- Some various arts:
- A Talonfolk house, by me.
- Request: If someone who can draw could draw me a Talonfolk based vaguely off my description and email it to me, that'd be awesome.
