The Village of Kinneigh

It’s been a few days since I’ve been able to update everyone on what I’ve been working on. I had the good fortune of starting a new job, and have been focused on incorporating new activities into my schedule. I have managed, however, to extend my worldbuilding efforts by designing the village of Kinneigh, outside […]

The Ghost of Kinneigh

In recent posts I’ve talked about working on an introductory adventure to my campaign setting, Aiyedjembe. I’ve now posted it over on my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nimirienbooks. The adventure concerns rumors of a farmhouse near the village of Kinneigh, being haunted. The farmer is offering some gold in return for the resolution of the haunting. Along the […]

The Trickster Sprite

Yesterday I talked about developing a campaign world through writing adventures. So far the approach has born some fruit. The adventure I’m working on, The Ghost of Kinneigh, has helped me detail the relationship between two different groups of elves on the island of Oilinane. Briefly, in years past one of the groups, the Aodh, […]

Nimirien Presents: The Kobold Enchanter!

I’ve been working away at my first adventure, a level one affair that will introduce folks to the campaign world I’ve been working on. I’ve come at worldbuilding a few different ways, and got a lot of mileage off of a top-down approach, which I will describe in the future. For now, I’m trying an […]

The Temple of the Three Shrines

An important element of worldbuilding is developing buildings centered around characters, and in role playing games this can be taken care of ahead of time by creating structures for different character classes. In my current campaign, I have a character who is a paladin/monk, and I wanted to have a temple for him to become […]

World Systems and Rpgs

Much of the stuff on this blog so far has concerned my primary interest in role playing games, worldbuilding. Like a lot of you, I love a good map, and I love to imagine what different places on the map might look like. I have a rather complex procedure of developing landforms and elevations for […]

A Monster Inspired by Horror

I wanted to create a monster inspired by the old horror film Poltergeist, by Steven Spielberg. It would have be a monster capable of attack in several different areas of a location. My solution was to imagine a ghost-like being that was haunting a large area, but made up of several smaller monsters. Implementation was […]

Nimirien Books is on Patreon!

Hey folks, I’m very excited to announce the next step in my plan to develop Nimirien Books. I’ve started a Patreon page where I’ll be providing free resources for Fifth Edition and other roleplaying games. Check out the link here: https://www.patreon.com/nimirienbooks. My first offering is a downloadable cavern map which I developed for an adventure […]

The Worldbuilding Conundrum

Yesterday I wrote about my first steps into building a whole world. One of the reasons for doing that was that I wanted to set the stage for talking about worldbuilding as an endeavor. Worldbuilding can mean a variety of things. For instance, Brandon Sanderson is well-known for his take on worldbuilding where specific things, […]

My First World

Several years ago I got an idea for a story that took me away from poetry, which had been my literary form of choice. The story, never written, was of a transgender person born into a medieval Icelandic setting. Would her family protect her? What form would that protection take? What challenges would she face […]