How to Make a Fantasy Sandbox Released!

[robertsconley]

I'm just letting folks know that How to Make a Fantasy Sandbox, based on my blog posts, has been released on DriveThruRPG. I also released The Isle of Pyade, which extracts the example setting I used in the book as a standalone reference if you want to use it for your campaign. The Isle of Pyade also has been released as open content under the OGL or CC-BY (your choice).



How to Make a Fantasy Sandbox Blog Posts
batintheattic.blogspot.com/2009/08/how-to-make-fantasy-sandbox.html

Bat in the Attic Games on DriveThruRPG
www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/2993/Bat-in-the-Attic-Games

[Finarvyn]

Good news, Rob! You consistently make good stuff.

[doublejig2]

...a fantasy setting can have any type of geography imaginable including the fantastic like lands floating on shards of a shattered world. Lovely.

[DungeonDevil]

The stat blocks for the NPCs look a bit unfamiliar. Could you briefly explain the ones that aren't Old School stats?

[tdenmark]

Great collection of information! Very useful.

The Medieval Demographics link is broken.

[robertsconley]

Apr 19, 2024 2:34:11 GMT -6 tdenmark said:

Great collection of information! Very useful.

The Medieval Demographics link is broken.

. You have to copy both lines and paste them together. Like the below.
www.batintheattic.com/downloads/Medieval%20Demographics%20Made%20Easy.pdf

[robertsconley]

Apr 19, 2024 1:23:11 GMT -6 DungeonDevil said:

The stat blocks for the NPCs look a bit unfamiliar. Could you briefly explain the ones that aren't Old School stats?

They are compatible with Sword & Wizardry by Matt Finch a OD&D retro clone.

You can use descending or ascending AC in S&W. The HiT Bonus gives the same result as the attack chart when using ascending AC. CL and XP is how Finch had to adapt XP awards for creatures. S&W uses a single number for save with certain classes and race getting a conditional modifier like magic users getting +2 vs. spells. The rest is just out of the creature or class description formatted as a stat block.

Here are more examples of monsters I formatted for other projects
www.batintheattic.com/downloads/MW%20Monsters%20Sample.pdf