DEGOM, THE BROAD EARTH

FIRST BLOG POST

For the past 6 years I have been running a fantasy TTRPG campaign for school friends, university RPG clubs, after-school clubs and online with both strangers and friends. Although not strictly my first experience with TTRPGs, it has been the first lasting campaign and one that has fully actualised what I always hoped the experience could be and comprises easily 90% of my total experience with the hobby as of my mid 20s.

It is a labour of love, the product of countless hours effort from myself and my players, and something I am very proud to share.

The campaign has told the story of one region through many players and multiple parties, shaping the world around them over the course of 50 years of in-game play via politics, religion, heroics and villainy.

I hope to relay some of this story as both a resource for new players, a record for myself as well as a window into my game for anyone interested.

I also plan to periodically produce small adventures, dungeons and general resources useful to other fantasy TTRPG Judges.

Welcome to my blog.

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A CAMPAIGN OVERVIEW

My first priority for this blog is to bring any readers up to date on the campaign, first as overview then a description of the identifiable "arcs" distinguished by the level 0 (the level at which we start) starting location.

Here is the overview of the campaign at large however:

DEGOM, THE BROAD EARTH is a campaign in the traditional ttrpg sense. It is the arena in which many stories take place not merely as a backdrop but as an end in and of itself. Here is the pitch for the campaign in its entirety:

"The New World, a wild and ever-changing archipelago newly conquered by the exiled Dragonlanders, The People of Chaos, from savage greytooth ogrekind and the enigmatic gnomes. The men of this land, kin-band clans, city states and petty kingdoms fight each other desperately for supremacy and survival as petty diminished gods watch from deep forests and pagan temples.

Above all wars however, above men, kings and even gods is the war between law and chaos. This is the war that destroyed the world that was and sent the Dragonlanders into their centuries-long exile, it is the war that dismembered the gods and caused the great magics to fail, it is a war born-into not chosen. This war persists even among the scattered shepherds, hedge mages and chieftains who cling to the ruins, and as great adventurers rise and form kingdoms and empires it roars with fury of holy war once more.

This campaign chronicles the evolution of this New World and this war throughout the centuries, beginning in the post-apocalyptic chaos of the migration through the establishment of the first true kingdoms and now the dramas of an early player-founded classical empire.

Each year of this extensive history is played through and guided by the actions of the players through their characters and their descendants, as it will be for centuries and generations to come"

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