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Welcome to the dark world of Ursoule. Before going any further, please take some time to read our guide to this wiki.
A number of years ago a few fellow fans of Order of the Stick and members of The Giant's Playground tossed around the idea of creating a new campaign world, taking a cue from The Giant himself on his campaign building tips. We had the support of The Giant in this endeavor and our own little corner of the Playground was granted to us where we could take and run with the idea. We quickly set about tossing around ideas for a theme, a tone, and general this and that. We agreed that we would put ideas to a vote for each issue thereby coming up with a campaign world by consensus. Thus was born Tears of Blood.
The highlights of what we established early on, to name a few, are as follows: the tone would be gritty, a world where day to day life was a struggle; there would be several themes that worked together, namely -- a plague that recently ravaged the country, an atmosphere of revolution and unstable governments, an atmosphere of mistrust of strangers, including especially PC adventurers, and finally that magic use is in flux; the races needed some adjustments; a pantheon of gods would be original material; a playable large race would be introduced; at least one template sort of race would be established for players who had at some point contracted the deadly plague we now call The Weeping ... and survived. This list is introductory and far from exhaustive. Unravel the details of them within.
This is foremost a work in progress. We have generally decided to have a core "book" or volume that covers the main setting, and then a number of supplements that go into greater details.
Contents |
Core Volume: Tears of Blood
Table of Contents
Chapter I- Introduction: Introduction to the setting, Map, History (I think I saw a timeline drifting around), astronomy (unsure as to the completion status of this), and the Weeping.
Chapter II- Races: Just what it says on the tin. I think many of these are finished.
Chapter III- Classes: Classes and PRCs. Unsure as to the completion status.
Chapter IV- The Plague (history, symptoms, societal effects and the Plaguetouched template)
Chapter V- Rules Changes: Skills, feats, and new equipment.
Chapter VI- Magic: Magic, spells, and the planes.
Chapter VII- Life on Ursoule: Cultures (non-Empire related would get less detail), religion, and organizations.
Chapter VIII- Monsters?: How monsters have changed in this world. Unsure as to the completion status.
Chapter IX- A Tears of Blood Campaign: Adventure ideas, plot hooks, (and a sample adventure?).
Current Topic: Races
Races is the topic currently being transferred to the Tears of Blood wiki. You can find the template for races here.
| Races |
| Dwarves - Elves - Feldarin - Giantkin - Gnomes - Halflings - Humans - Orcs |
| Acquired Templates and Bloodlines |
|---|
| Fleshwrought - Plaguetouched |
To do (admin)
- Set up title banner. (Bear of Bad News)
- Add stylistic underline to titles.
- Add stylistic edgings to contents boxes, catagory boxes, etc.
- Change background colours of the above, and image boxes. (Partly Done - Levi)
- Change "Tearsofblood" in various places to "Tears of Blood" if possible.
- Change sidebar graphic(s).
- Extend views bar and add graphic to simulate many pages.
- Change views tabs to bookmarks.
- Experiment further with the Test Page.
- Add intro to the About page and other support pages.
