#yershar

From early 2017 to late 2019, I ran a 5e D&D game using a homebrew campaign setting called Yer Shar, which was a pastiche/fix-up of some extant settings I had sitting around in Google Drive. Most of them had never been anywhere close to an actual D&D table, being incomplete and all. In the years since the end of that campaign, I've returned to it in part for inspiration, but also to build out new ideas in it.

The idea for Hollowkin was “what if Warforged but my own thing?”, and while I basically just imported Warforged as-is for the original campaign, I wanted to tweak them somewhat for the more recent sub-setting, Underscourge. Now, Underscourge is my answer for “how about cyberpunk but mostly fantasy and also in a subterranean volcano city?”, along with some excuse to do cave exploration mechanics. There's a part of me that wants to make this a full-fledged TTRPG setting, though, and in the spirit of that pursuit, I'm offering up this rudimentary OSRified race/kindred that is inspired by the Warforged but hopefully is its own thing. The setting has been in some form of development since 2021.

This is incomplete, but feedback on the initial design is welcome!

#yershar #lore #theory

In mid-2016, I and one other D&D player formed a group whose membership fluctuated in the intervening years, though I'm happy to say that at least the two of us have remained constant fixtures and maintain our group even today. We started with a campaign of indeterminate length, with the promise that I would take up the second campaign at some future date. That date turned out to be much closer than I anticipated, and from November 2016 to January 2017, I furiously scribbled out a 47 page campaign setting for a world based on a handful of ideas and expanded on with a handful more. That world became Yer Shar, and it served as the setting for an epic campaign lasting nearly 3 years.