Exploring the Dawn Realm (RPG Blog Carnival Worlds Beyond)

This month's RPG Blog Carnival is curated by VDoughnut of VDonnut Valley and is titled: Other, Between, and Under – The Worlds Beyond. I have several of these parallel realities sitting around (or stacked on top of each other, like paper plates), many of which I'm actively working on. So this feels almost a little cheeky. I may have to do another before the month is out to show my seriousness.

This is a post about the DAWN REALM, the nearest thing Pariah has to a the feywilde. It's the source of organic life, illusion magic, charms and mutations where nothing is ever created or destroyed but often converted into other forms.

And while it bleeds, constantly, into the Here & Now, the best way to experience it first hand is through a heroic dose of Dawn Mushrooms.

In essence this is a depth crawl with a guaranteed end, as it uses real time (10 mins = 1 turn, ends after 12 turns) and most encounters are resolved conversationally.

An ink drawing by Jef Cox from Pariah volume 1

Navigating the City of a Hundred Gods—Another Approach to the City

In ancient times a man named Patrick Stuart shared a post about wrapping a dungeon around a die to create a non-Euclidean adventure site: http://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2011/09/did-i-invent-this.html

I think about it a lot, and have been playing with multiple iterations of the concept for a number of years... but only recently did I consider it an interesting way to approach the "city crawl", specifically the settlement slowly being described in the City of a Hundred Gods series of posts. 

A hex map of a city, repeating endlessly.