Having gifted myself the Dolmenwood Trilogy for my birthday, I have spent a good amount of time poring over the book, and good amount more reading articles, essays, and other excellent materials to help figure out how to make the most out of this truly splendid setting. My local group is getting excited to run it (we spent Easter Sunday after dinner randomly generating characters, just for kicks) and so I'm researching extensively about how to make this truly lift off for them.
Among the many, many fantastic pieces written abut it, these truly excellent blog posts by ElmCat and Jim Parkin of d66 Classless Kobolds helped make click for me how to make this game feel as alive in play as it does reading off the page. Factional Tracking has been a big part of Hexcrawls and other large-scale campaigns, and - feeling inpsired by their handiwork - I assembled a resource to help the tracking of Factions within Dolmenwood feel a little more organized.
The Dolmenwood Faction Tool is a simple Google doc that I assembled that takes Jim Parkin's excellent groundwork (itself borrowed from Mausritter) and puts into a digestable,writable format. Each of the tabs coangins a basic overview of what the tool is intending to do, and a space to customize and organize the factions your players might want to involve themselves with as the explore the Wood.
Please,feel free to comment on this, and add your thoughts about what could improve this. It's deliberately bare-bones at the moment, but that's what templates are for. Now have at it,and start some factional scheming!
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