Blackmoor's Dwoemer Realm

[Havard]

More details from Phllip Slama who was the leader of the Terror Inc group:

Greg, Ramon, Matt and I came up with the concept.

I think each module had a disclaimer that Greg and I put on them! Basically it said you can die, we pulled no punches, lol.

Basically we couldn't really alter the world above too much so we went underneath it since nothing describes it.

We put a bunch of crazy races down there, tried to explain why you don't see a lot of dwarves around (they're busy) and really tried to put together an area where we could write some crazy stories.

nother thing we noticed was that players were getting super powerful so another purpose thus setting served was to weed out those players in two way:

Send them into an area that exhausts their resorts (i.e. certs) with the promise of awesome gear (rumors from people who survived).

Really hammer the players and scare the heck out of them and make them think they were going to lose and die but don't tpk them.

We operated under the motto, Cut Deep, Don't Kill.

The people who got through a mod were like, "I'm the best" while all the while we were trying to keep the power curve in check by eliminating magic items, resources, and sometimes enter tables.

Oh and in every encounter you have the ability to run away. No one tries to stop you. Every team that succeeded or failed counted against how the story arc would go.

So you can see the catch 22 here. Chance at cool gear, really impact this lowere realm, or die, or lose all your possessions.

People agonized over these decisions, I enjoyed it immensely.

But my favorite moments were the selfless acts. One guy I remember sacrificed his paladin to save the group from annihilation. And even though he died the table and every one who watched was like, "wow, he went out like a boss doing what a paladin does."

It was a lot of fun and a lot of new mechanics too!

As to the spelling of Dwoemer vs Dweomer I think I typed it wrong and we never caught it LOL! It is supposed to mean magic realm. Wow we were terrible spell checkers!

think we planned a five year arc (because we are crazy). There was supposed to be a big fight between all the races down there. The Drakon'katha, the Bugs, the Aranea, our own version of illithids...

I don't think I have much stuff left over, I can't even remember how many mods there were, maybe four or five. Definitely Rolling Thunder...

This is what happens when you use yahoo groups and yahoo removes you user name....

The nice thing about Blackmoor was most of the players were from Miami or Orlando or Florida so we knew the gaming styles and this realm was a big smorgasbord for all the crazy Miami people and Orlano people (of which I was one of them) that always talkyd about wanting to fight crazy odds. Ergo, we dropped this bomb on them!

-Havard