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Scarred Lands Campaign Setting Ghelspad
Scarred Lands Campaign Setting Ghelspad provides Game Masters with a fully developed setting ready-made for adventure. ENter the continent of Ghelspad and experience the world of the Scarred Lands first-hand.
224 pages, Hardcover
First published January 5, 2002
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Joseph D. Carriker Jr.
32 books50 followersJoseph Carriker is the developer for Green Ronin’s Blue Rose AGE roleplaying game line. He has been writing in the gaming industry for sixteen years now, and has worked on a variety of game lines over those years.
In 2017, he released his first novel, Sacred Band, and his second, Shadowtide, in 2018. He runs a Patreon dedicated to his Sacred Band world with a variety of short stories, world building and commissioned art.
He is an outspoken queer gamer, having helped organize and take part in the annual Queer as a Three-Sided Die panels at GenCon. Joseph lives in Portland, Oregon with his partner A.J., and likes to believe he does his part in Keeping Portland Weird.
In 2017, he released his first novel, Sacred Band, and his second, Shadowtide, in 2018. He runs a Patreon dedicated to his Sacred Band world with a variety of short stories, world building and commissioned art.
He is an outspoken queer gamer, having helped organize and take part in the annual Queer as a Three-Sided Die panels at GenCon. Joseph lives in Portland, Oregon with his partner A.J., and likes to believe he does his part in Keeping Portland Weird.
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August 27, 2019
Ghelspad was an awesome setting and the first I tried to run: imagine a harsh landscape still scattered with the corpses and consequences of a war between gods and titans. Corrupting flesh of rended titan bodies litter the landscape, their putrid presence mutating the local flora and fauna, the rotting meat and god-gristle spawning horrible, mad monstrosities.
Then throw a scattering of kingdoms struggling to survive the aftermath of the war, adjust to the new reign of the gods, and hold back roaming war-bred and titan-born monsters that roam the wastes and wilds. All while keeping an eye on predacious neighbors looking for any sign of weakness to take over themselves.
It was great. Unfortunately, I suffered from the OCD/perfectionistic stress and paralysis that is a byproduct of my problem with every setting I've tried to run: if it exists, it must be looked up if not memorized. If I'm making up a setting I can just fill in the blanks when something comes up, then jot it down. If it exists, the uncertainty of whether there is a blank or not has always caused game stoppages and uncertainty when I've run such settings. As such, I now simply mine them for cool ideas to sprinkle as enrichment to my own settings.
Then throw a scattering of kingdoms struggling to survive the aftermath of the war, adjust to the new reign of the gods, and hold back roaming war-bred and titan-born monsters that roam the wastes and wilds. All while keeping an eye on predacious neighbors looking for any sign of weakness to take over themselves.
It was great. Unfortunately, I suffered from the OCD/perfectionistic stress and paralysis that is a byproduct of my problem with every setting I've tried to run: if it exists, it must be looked up if not memorized. If I'm making up a setting I can just fill in the blanks when something comes up, then jot it down. If it exists, the uncertainty of whether there is a blank or not has always caused game stoppages and uncertainty when I've run such settings. As such, I now simply mine them for cool ideas to sprinkle as enrichment to my own settings.
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