Raiders of Arismyth

Arts & Crafts

  • A map of a part of Southern Kari. There are marked points of interest: The mountain fort of Tarkherheim, a place called the Darkwell, the Old Hallows Forge, a dark tower called "Ogghas Tower", a strip of desert called Zinkos Waste. South of the waste are a forest called the Hornforst, a misty field called the Hazesteppe, a castle in the hills called Castle Gray and a large port city in th east called Tolberg

    Mapping the lands of the Kari

    Tolkien and others set the rules: A fantastic world is not complete without a map. This is for me among the more difficult things to make. I cannot draw myself a way out of a paperbag. But in order for my players to understand where they can go, what they can explore, and how far…

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  • Making terrain

    I really love painting miniatures and making terrain. Not that I’m really good at it, but my results are good enough for the “look at them from 1 meter away” use case that is what we need for tabletop and roleplaying gaming. For years, I’ve accumulated odds and ends and various miniatures, but since I’ve…

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  • a tiny excerpt of a tabletop roleplaying game dungeon, consisting of 9 blocks, with walls and a stair in the back. In the middle there is an adventurer minifigure with a small torch token placed on the miniatures base. The token is a simple torch standing upright on a round base.

    Darkness, light, and props

    Most of the development for the game is triggered by things I discover in playtesting. Last weekend, light became important. The heroes were navigating a forgotten mine, and had to rely on torches to see things. But not all of them were carrying something to illuminate the pitch-black corridors of the mine. So we improvised…

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