The Dragon & Cat is an inn and public house in the docklands of Talon. Once upon a time, the inn was a two-story brick-and-wood building. But after the night of the Great Fire that was Definitely Not Roderick's Fault, they moved across the street into a former stable. The stalls have been converted into … Continue reading The Dragon & Cat Inn
Author: Ashley Sarver
Ashley Sarver is a queer, nonbinary trans femme, polytheist, gamer, and disability caregiver living in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Talon
Talon is a small, walled city of 5,000 or so people. It is a port on the Middle Sea, and the southernmost terminus of the Archon's Highway, making it the center of trade for the southern half of the Southmarch. The city's full name is an archaic phrase meaning, "The Furthest Talon of the Great … Continue reading Talon
The Protectorate
Human nation, EmpireRuled by the Triarchy, three co-rulers elected for life from among the military, the temple, and the nobilityState religion honors the Divine Gold Dragon as an emissary of the gods, the first Archon as a prophet, and the heroes of the Protectorate as deified ancestors The Protectorate of the Scarlet Throne stretches up … Continue reading The Protectorate
Keena
Female Gnome RangerChaotic GoodOutlander/Guide Keena is a native of the wooded hills and the coast near the city of Talon. She often hires out as a guide for hunters, travelers, and adventurers
Prexi
Male Dragonborn (copper) ClericChaotic GoodTempest sphere Prexi grew up in the service of the Divine Copper Dragon, Axotaarross, faraway in the south-eastern mountains. In time, he was sent abroad to learn of the respect given dragons in the religions of other peoples. He began his survey in the Protectorate, because of their reverence for the … Continue reading Prexi
Dart
Androgynous Tiefling Sorcerer Wild Magician Chaotic Neutral Storyteller Dart was an abandoned orphan who grew up on the streets of Freeport, using illusion to keep themselves, not out of trouble, but at least free. Recently, things got too hot in Freeport, and so Dart stowed away on a merchant ship heading north, into the Protectorate. … Continue reading Dart
Branwyn
Female Half-Elf BardChaotic GoodScholar Branwyn was born and raised in the Grey City of the Elvish Isles in the east, trained as a scribe by the Blue College. She has come west to collect stories from the far side of the Middle Sea. Branwyn came across the sea on a human merchant ship, into the … Continue reading Branwyn
Mythic & Humanistic Fantasy Worlds
When I'm creating fantasy worlds—which happens most often when I'm driving or doing dishes or otherwise away from paper and keyboard—I find that they tend to fall into one of two categories. These are distinctions in my head, describing the way I approach the story of the world. They aren't meant as some kind of … Continue reading Mythic & Humanistic Fantasy Worlds
The Journey Begins
Overthinking Roleplaying Games is both an ongoing record of games I run (using categories and tags to keep the information accessible) and a place to put my random meanderings about RPGs as fiction, and the ways the form does or does not work for certain kinds of storytelling.
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