Campaign Chronicles

The Neverland Ferry was owned and operated by Winken, Blinken, and Nod, respectively, the Butcher, Baker, and Candlestick-maker of their small town.   Fashioned from the discarded wooden shoe of a passing giant and roughly outfitted with a sail and small rudder, the “Tub” as it came to be known was one of the few methods available for crossing Neverland Bay, linking the city of Hamelin with the Grimmlands' small coastal villages along the bay’s northern shores. Moreover, its three owners had learned the secret of navigating (regardless of the boat’s starting point you need only wait until nightfall, set a course for the second star to the right and sail straight toward it until morning) to the Island of Neverland itself and carefully guarded the knowledge they had acquired. The Tub was destroyed by the whale Monstro while ferrying a group of adventurers from the coast to Neverland where the three owners had planned on waiting until morning before completing the second leg...

The lands of the Grimm RPG remind me of Ravenloft .   Children are ensnared   by this twisted world, entering it through the boiler room beneath their school or via a heretofore hidden passage in their closet or by making a wrong turn on the way home from school in much the same way the Mists would rise and claim adventurers from disparate lands.   I thought that new “domains” should appear as time went on, with each representing a different storybook setting and that these lands would appear at the borders of the core, expanding outward from the center to fill the plane. The Grimmlands, or at the version of them that exist in my campaign , were formed when Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm began collecting stories with the purpose of creating a scholarly treatise.  They decided that the best way to do this is to travel from town to town, listening to local folklore and collecting fairy tales. They were approached by a woman named Melusine who provided them with a tome ...

I ran a "side quest" for some of the player in my play-by-post campaign so they could earn some bonus Xp and help me flesh out the world we were adventuring in.  To make things more interesting (or just stranger depending on your point of view), they assumed the roles of Smurfs.  This adventure would take place just after the beginning of the first Smurf movie and is based on the King Smurf issue of the original comic book series. Below, there are sections divided by dashed lines.  These represent the post for the players and sections in parenthesis are my "Director's Commentary" about what I had going on, the writing process, etc. I hope everyone enjoys this - or at least doesn't hate it.  It was definitely one of the stranger stories I have attempted. King Smurf (1828 Grimmlands calendar) The Blue Moon Festival was approaching. Clumsy Smurf was out running errands at the behest of Papa Smurf when he accidentally drew the attention of the ...