Want a map that your players won't recognize?

Try a seamount! Just about any of them will do for an island and larger groups could be extrapolated into continents. Voila! Instant worlds....

I have a favorite Island...and yeah, that's probably a bit strange.

One of my pastimes is looking at maps. I really enjoy the process of transitioning an image on a page or a computer screen into a mental-landscape based upon what I'm seeing. I've always enjoyed this. As a youngster, I'd spend hours with a world atlas, just putzing around, enjoying the shape-ed-ness of the world.

This of course, means I have a favorite island: Sulawesi.

I love it because it's just so... improbable. It's like a giant drunken lower-case "k" that's just about to fall down. It's shape is something that, were I to see it in a fantasy map, I'd roll my eyes a bit at. It's the world's 11th largest island (about 90% the size of Great Britain), but I imagine that most people have never heard of it.

Sunday Un-seriousness

Tome of Tomes

Continuing the series....

Flowing Purification
Author: Ashem Inshar
Race: Human
Dimensions: 8x10x1
Weight: 2 lbs.
Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
Rarity: Uncommon
Fields of Study:  Supernatural & unusual
Special Knowledge Categories: Dweomercraeft
Value: 150 gp

Another ritual guide by Ashem Inshar, Flowing Purification is disputably the most-common of ritual tomes. If a 2nd-level cleric and 4 1st-level cleric assistants work over a month’s period, a single well or spring is purified. This purified water source produces clean and potable water even when mundane defiling (dead bodies, feces, other waste) is attempted. Any magical defiling or a dispel magic (or equivalent) destroys the Flowing Purification ritual.

Tome of Tomes

Continuing the Tome of Tomes series from my Patreon project....

The Weaver’s Blessing
Author: Borgoth Moryal
Race: Human
Dimensions: 16x4x1
Weight: 3 lbs.
Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
Rarity: Very rare
Fields of Study:  Supernatural & unusual
Special Knowledge Categories: Dweomercraeft
Value: 150 gp

The final work of the druid Borgoth Moryal, The Weaver’s Blessing gives instruction in a month-long process of blessing three willow seeds—seeds that when planted and grown to adulthood, yield twice the typical amount of osiers. Only a 1st-level druid and three assistants (of any ability) are required for the earthy blessing of the seeds.