Gygax 75# The campaign pitch.

 

For the first week of the Gygax 75# I had to develop a pitch for my campaign. I found it easier to write quick and easy dot points with a max of a couple of sentences each.

• Large emphasis on dungeon delving and exploration.
• High variety of monsters but mostly uncommon to rare. (using the Random Esoteric Creature Generator by James Raggi makes this an easy task).
• High amounts of both cosmic and body horror. (using the Dungeon Crawl Classics corruption tables should help with some ideas).
• Iron is hard to find so a high emphasis on PC's using whatever they can to fashion tools and weapons.
• PC's kept to human only.
• Magic much like the monsters is rare but powerful when found.

I wish to recreate a setting much like when the English first hit the shores. A sense of wonder, of an alien landscape so freakishly different from home. Having to scavenge for every small scrap, making small amounts of progress bit by bit.

Dungeon delving, exploring an ancient untouched land, high levels of natural and unnatural wonder, using everything around them to gain a slight advantage. 

 

 

 

Just look at this and tell me it doesn't give off cosmic horror vibes.