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A Note on Full Class Requests

Hello folks of the Gold and Platinum tiers!

Just a quick note on full classes and the status of these. 

Full classes take a whoooole lot of time to make, mostly because they're a pain to balance haha. Regardless, I do have a goal this month to knock them all out before March comes here. So if you've got a full class on the books, it should be done soon.

However, if you'd like to convert your full class request into 2 subclass requests, I can do that, as well. Subclasses...

The Races of the Blackleaf Forest Region of the Ninth Kingdom

Yesterday, I put up a poll breaking down the racial demographics of the Blackleaft Forest region and now the results are in! I have to admit, there were quite a few surprises.

Elves - 22 votes - 15% - 123,218

Medusas - 22 votes - 15% - 123,022

Goblinoids - 17 votes - 12% - 98,496

Gnomes - 16 votes - 11% - 90,288

Humans - 15 votes - 10% - 82,080

Halflings - ...

[Blackleaf Forest] More Monsters Required!

Now that we've zoomed in to Blackleaf Forest and Wicked Maple Grove, I probably need some more forest-themed monsters to go in here. These will be in addition to the others included in Creaturepedia due out latert his month.

What do you got, folks?

I've included the map again for your convenience.

[Bonus Poll] Wicked Maple Grove's Government Form

Yesterday, we selected the Wicked Maple Grove region of the Blackleaf Forest. Now it's time that we decided on a government form for this region. 

I'm using the old 2nd edition World Builder's Guidebook to give us ideas for governments.

The government form with the most votes wins. However, second place will be the form of government that is conspiring to overthrow the status quo.

Everyone gets one vote. Ends tomorrow around 10:00pm CST.

The City of Bygrove

As you probably saw, we just narrowed down the Blackleaf Forest to Wicked Maple Grove. That gave us a number of interesting locations for our campaign. 

While I'm still collecting ideas for the area, I thought I might flesh out one of the major settlements a bit more.

Bygrove is the largest settlement in the Wicked Maple Grove region. I'd guess that it probably makes up for 65% of the population of the region, thus giving it a population of 22,230 humanoids (the entire contin...

Wicked Maple Grove

Time to learn more about the Blackleaf Forest. We're now focused in on the Wicked Maple Grove area of the Forest. I created the map through Inkarnate, then used donjon.bin.sh's random name generator to come up with some interesting locations.

• Addukhim. A hamlet at the northern edge of the Drakecrags. 
• Blackleaf Forest. Named such because of the blackleaf trees that fill it, the Blackleaf Forest is a massive, primordial forest dominat...
  2019-02-12 02:31:13 +0000 UTC View Post

[Daily Poll] Racial Demographics of the Blackleaf Region

The Ninth Kingdom of Enombath continues to develop. While we're anxiously awaiting to learn the results of the regional-scale map that we'll be focusing on, I thought I might take an opportunity to poll you all on the actual demographics of the Blackleaf Region. 

This one will work similar to the last subclass poll where more than one answer will win. In fact, ALL of the answers will win. The way it will work is that I will list all of the major races in Fifth Edition. Then, when y...

Wandrossa Global Climates

I'm on a roll tonight, creating lots of fun stuff for Wandrossa. While I'm eagerly awaiting the results of the two latest polls, I thought I might take a look at the average climates for the regions of Wandrossa, and then take a further look at what the climate and weather is like for the Ninth Kingdom of Enombath and the Blackleaf Forest.

Check it out:

Closing in on the Ninth Kingdom of ...

The Wandrossa Gazetteer Volume 1

As we go along and build this world, I've decided to collect all the editions in weekly installments of what-I'm-calling The Wandrossa Gazetteer.

Here is the first volume, which details the map, locations, new monsters, and races of this crowdsourced world.

Enjoy!

[Bonus Poll] Pick an area of Blackleaf Forest.

We've gone from a global scale, to a continental scale, and now we're down to a Kingdom scale. 

Time to shrink things even further to be our regional scale.

Using the map above, vote on one of the areas for us to expand further into the Regional map for the Ninth Kingdom setting.

Each hex represents about 10,000 square miles of land. Within each region, there are roughly 24 mon...

[Daily Poll] What subclasses should be in Creaturepedia?

This is my second try at getting this poll up. The first time, it didn't stick for whatever reason.

I'm adding 3 subclasses to the Creaturepedia book that's due out at the end of February.

I took to Instagram for subclass suggestions. Which of the suggestions below do you like best? 

You can vote as many times as you like. When the poll is over (probably in about 24 hours or so), the Top 3 picks win. 

[Daily Poll] Ninth Kingdom Regional Map Zoom

Hey all,

Just a couple days ago I demonstrated just how large the Ninth Kingdom of Enombath is by comparing it to the United States. Today I want to dive down a little deeper and pick a quadrant that we're going to focus on.

I'll divide the Kingdom into four main areas: northeast, southeast, northwest, southwest.

Vote on which one you want to start things off in.

There are onl...

End of February Book Announcement

Hey all!

Since I'm a little behind on requests and my normal slate of creations, I'm going to push the release of MARTIAL to the end of March, and instead make a monster book tentatively titled Creaturepedia I: Monsters of the Ninth Kingdom which will be the first official release for the Wandrossa campaign setting (flexible with all other settings, of course).

By the way, I'm back from my trip, so I plan on spending the next couple days doing nothing but writing...

The Ninth Kingdom of Enombath (Scale Comparison)

Hey everyone,

My work conference is almost over. Today I thought I might show you a little scale comparison for you to get an idea of just how big the Ninth Kingdom is. 

Each hex represents 100 miles.

For population, the Ninth Kingdom has roughly 13 million humanoids. I extrapolated Europe's population during the low middle ages and compared it to its modern day population.&nbs...

Wandrossa's "Blackleaf Region" needs monsters! (7-day creation challenge)

Hey all!

If you haven't heard, I'm at a work conference in Austin (by the way, the food is UH-MAZING here) until Friday night. When I get back on Saturday, I plan to knock out a bunch of content before my Saturday night session that's at 5:30pm.

One thing I'd really like to get caught up on is original monster creation. Being that we're starting in Blackleaf for adventures, I think I'll need to populate the region with some awesome monsters. And there's all sorts ...

[Daily Poll] Let's name a continent...

The two regions battled it out pretty significantly, but in the end, it was Blackleaf forest that won.

Thanks to donjon.bin.sh, we've got some cool labels on this map. And of course, we know Blackleaf forest. But what should the name of this first continent in Wandrossa be?

Once again, I've turn...

[Daily Poll] What region should Wandrossa start?

Hey guys!

Sorry for being slow on content today. And I promise I'm getting to messages at some point tonight.

Here's a quick poll for you. I'm building out a mystery adventure set in Wandrossa right now, but I'm not sure where to set it just yet. Below, I've included six interesting regions. I don't know anything about these regions other than the labels.

Which one of these regions should we start in?

 #1 - Antwirk Region 

2019-02-06 19:40:15 +0000 UTC View Post

[Daily Poll] Medusa Playable Race - How do they fit in with Wandrossa?

Happy Tuesday everyone! This morning before I hopped on a plane to Austin for work, I built out a Medusa playable race as a new player option. 

If you haven't already read here on Patreon, we're going to be building a campaign world together named Wandrossa. It's totally your...

Wandrossa (New Map)

So, for whatever reason, donjon wouldn't create more than a single continent when I was messing with the other day. Also, I didn't save any variations of the map, and since donjon's map generator doesn't have a save feature, this left me in kind of a tight spot. 

Therefore, I decided to try again today. And I'm pretty happy with what came up. Now, instead of just one big chunky continent, I've got a few sprawling continents here that makes things much more interesting, wouldn't you...

Introducing Wandrossa: It's YOUR World, Patrons

A couple days ago, I introduced a blank map that I created using donjon's map generator. It has a few names on it, some geography, but that's it. Here it is:

I don't know anything about this world. Which is kind of overwhelming and thrilling all at the same time.

Today I got this crazy idea: what if YOU GUYS helped me build this world? The more I started thinking about it, the more excite...

Swag is coming! And it's going to be awesome!

Hey all!

Just letting you know that I'm hard at work on swag. I got a cool idea over the weekend for what I hope to do with the swag and I'm pricing things out now and seeing how to make it work.

If all things go right, this is what you can hope to see with the swag:

• Fully functional items that function with Fifth Edition gameplay.
• Unique stuff that's got the DMDave vibe all over it.
• Probably tied into the adventure setting that we're going to be buil...
  2019-02-04 19:46:45 +0000 UTC View Post

New Poll: What Type of Adventure Should the First Adventure Be?

Happy Monday, folks! While the theme for the adventure series is still up in the air (it's neck-and-neck between Fey and Aberrations... maybe a war between the two? Weird vs Wonderful!) I thought I might start planning out stuff now.

Much of this I'm going to do using a similar method that I demonstrated in my recent "How to Make an Adventure in 30 Minutes or Less" tutorial over on the blog.

But to start things off for the Level 1 PC's, what type of adventure should it be?

Y...

EVIL Upload Attempt #2

Let's see if this work this time. I just tried it can it came up as what it's supposed to be.

If for whatever reason it's not downloading right (it's coming up as a weird nameless file for some reason), save it as EVIL.pdf. It should, in theory, open up correctly.

On my PC, it prompts me what app I want to open it with. I've been opening it with Acrobat which immediately turns it into PDF compatible.

Sorry for the funkiness, folks. I promise you it's not on my end LOL

New Poll: Adventure Series Theme

Hey all! I'm probably going to be hitting the 100 patron goal today, which means I'll need to start cooking up some adventures. Already, you've seen the map I'll be working with (dang, donjon is cool, right?)

Now I just need some theme ideas!

What do you mean by theme?

Basically, each of the major releases by "them wizards" has a theme to it. 

• Dragons: Dragon Queen's Hoard/Rise of Tiamat
• Undead/Gothic: Curse of St...
  2019-02-03 14:54:48 +0000 UTC View Post

February Requests

The groundhog saw it's shadow yesterday, so, uh, polar vortex! I guess. I don't know what any of those things I just said mean. :|

Anywhoo, I'm getting the content calendar put together. I've picked up about 25 patrons in the last couple days alone (you guys are AWESOME, thank you so much), but, of course, that's probably going to put me in the weeds for requests. So I'll be slowing down on the marketing end of things a little to get caught up.

I've already got a big chunk of requ...

EVIL Downloadable Link

Hey gang,

For those who've had trouble downloading EVIL on here (it works, you just need to open it with a PDF reader) here's a dropbox link for it.

It's password protected. The password is evil2019

 http://bit.ly/2Bgtx1Q 

But anyways, if you have any future issues, let me know. I'm still trying to see what the dilliyo with Patreon is, but until then, this is a little bandaid fix.

Thanks!

Behold! Wandrossa! (For the upcoming adventures series)

I needed a quick solution for a map builder, so I turned to donjon's fantasy generator. This will be the "vanilla" setting for the adventures I'll be publishing since I don't want it to overlap with Omerian Echo and I can't use a certain campaign setting with the initials "FR" because copyrights, etc.

Anyways, I thought this was pretty nifty. Not sure what part of the map I'll start on because it all looks like...

MARTIAL - February 2019's Official Theme

Big announcement today! While Patreon is slowly recovering from what  I'm calling Patreonapocalypse 2019 (sorry for those who are trying to get a copy of EVIL or sign-up!), I thought I'd go ahead and announce February's collected edition theme:

MARTIAL: A Fifth Edition Companion - The Collected Works of DMDave February 2019

In the vein of the 3rd edition player option books like Sword and Fist and Complete Warrior, MARTIAL will ...

New Poll: What Should the 250 Patrons Goal Reward Be?

We're about to hit the 100 patrons mark which is awesome, because that means I'll be creating monthly adventures! 

Only trouble is, when we hit the next goal (which I'm pushing up to 250) I have no idea what to create next. 

So far we've got:

1) Monthly books a la EVIL (when we hit 25)

2) Quarterly campaign settings (when we hit 50)

3) Monthly adventures (once we hit 100)

I have a few basic ideas of what I want to do, but I don't want to end up pu...

EVIL Download FINALLY!

Dear God, it finally went through. Yaaay!

Here it is in all of its wicked glory. 

Let me know if there's any issues that you have with this thing. It's a monster, clocking in at 57 glorious pages.