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Hello all! One of the compilation stretch goals I'm planning is regional gazetteer spreads. A number of people have asked for more detail about the setting which the adventures are drawn from, and this is how I plan on approaching it for each region.

There will definitely be material on the history of the whole setting, but I'm keeping that short. As fun as that is to write, I'm going to favor present-day details and trends, to give context to the adventures rather than soak you in history with no use at the table.

Here is the Strielund Gazetteer, a two-page prototype for the format. Bear in mind that this is a writing draft, so there are typos, layout and typography problems to fix, no need to comment on those as this is v0.1 grade preview stuff right here! But I'd love to hear your thoughts on format and the type of content.

Depending on how it does, the Kickstarter could have 5-8 of these in addition to the adventures.

Strielund is where you find such adventures as In The Care of Bones, The Shattered Gate, and (at its periphery) Though Flesh Be Vast.

http://trilemma.com/patreon_assets/posts/Gazetteer%2020190113.pdf


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Gill Garcia

That is awesome! I always wondered what each of the regions backgrounds was. It is great to see that there is so much backstory of these areas!

Michael Prescott

Much of the surface areas are only worked out in the barest detail in my head, which becomes apparent when I go to write them down.

Scott McMillin

Michael, you should take a look at Edward Tufte's book Visual Explanations, one of the bibles of information design, and specifically the design strategy he calls "smallest effective difference." You can read a bit about it here: <a href="https://twitter.com/edwardtufte/status/450076034759524352." rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/edwardtufte/status/450076034759524352.</a> Specifically with regards to both the color and thickness of your keylines and gridlines, as I think in this design the visual emphasis they have directly competes with the content itself. For instance are keylines even needed between the content blocks or could the city names be slightly larger and the whitespace provide enough of separation between the content. Just something to think about and maybe play around with. Keep up the great work!

Michael Prescott

Thanks for weighing in, Scott. Just to be clear, you're talking about the text, not the inset map. Is that correct?