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#56 - The Terrible Salt
Adventure #56 is now out, "The Terrible Salt"! This one is a wilderness adventure set in a massively wide tidal flat. Adventurers will face an unpredictable landscape and a swarm of implacable predators—unless they take to the high ground and learn where the threats are.Click through to th...
The Terrible Salt (WIP)
I'm pecking away at an adventure, this one inspired by the incredibly deep beach at Holkham Bay. There, the tide flows in more than a kilometer over a wide, sandy expanse. As a result it comes in very rapidly, forming little ad hoc streams that join up, swell, and continue moving across the sand...
#55: At the Hour of Death
The lost tomb of Sierk the Carver may have passed from memory, but it's nearer than anyone suspected. But be warned, wizards don't die peacefully. Great danger awaits anyone who arrives at the hour of death.It's been a long, long time since my last adventure—thank you everyone who has ...
Fundraiser for Evey Lockhart
Hello all! I'm interrupting my long hiatus to ask for your help with a fundraiser. Friend and onetime Trilemma collaborator Evey Lockhart needs help.You may know Evey from her weird, queer, and sad publications like Wet Grandpa. Her old school-adjacent publications are irreverent and creative. S...
The Thwarted Course
Thanks for hanging in there, this adventure location has certainly been a long time in the making! This is my take on the classic ogre-haunted bridge, but with a slightly weird take.Click through to the blog post for the PDF and the full-resolution CC-BY-NC map illustration.As always, thank you so m...
Year Zero Engine Kickstarter: 48 hrs left!
I haven't been very noisy about it here, but if you missed the news elsewhere, we've just entered the last 48 hours of the Kickstarter campaign for the fourth Trilemma bestiary: Servants of Memory.This edition stats out the Trilemma Adventures Compendium creatures for the Year Zero Engine, t...
Vote for Trilemma at the ENnies!
Vote for Trilemma Adventures at the ENnies!As I posted recently, Trilemma has been nominated for four ENnieawards! Voting is now live! Best Adventure Best Layout and Design Best Cartography Product of the Year!If you're not familiar with them, the ENnie Awards happen every year at the start of G...
2020 ENnie Awards Nominations!
A very cool thing has happened: Trilemma Adventures Compendium Vol I has been nominated for four ENnie awards! The four categories are: Best Adventure Best Layout and Design Best Cartography Product of the YearThis is my first time ENnie anything, so I'm pretty psyched about it! The way the ENni...
Basic/Expert Bestiary on DriveThruRPG
Hey again! The B/X version of the bestiary for the adventures is now up on DriveThruRPG. Like the 5th edition version, this contains 112 creatures from the adventures, but statted up by Johnstone Metzger for Basic/Expert.Also, as with the 5e version, as patrons you're entitled to a 1/3 off disco...
5th Edition Bestiary on DriveThruRPG
Hey everyone! A bunch of behind-the-scenes work has been completed, and the 5th edition bestiary for the adventures is now complete and available on DriveThruRPG.This is a 182-page PDF, with 112 creatures from the adventures statted out for fifth edition by the incomparable Jen Adcock. Along with th...
The Incursion Egg
Three years ago, a Birevian expedition set sail to solve the mystery once and for all: what lies inside the great glass dome of Never Gap? Puila's cog never returned, and the mystery remains.This month's adventure is a weird one, driven by an image I couldn't get out of my mind: a huge, ...
Bottle Sketches
Just a few pencil sketches as I noodle on the bottle-enclowed island. I don't always work this way, but I often let the visuals lead the way while I work out what's actually there.
The Sequence of Deel
High in the village is a village plagued by nighttime poisonings. Victims claim there is a crone who comes creeping in through windows and chimneys to smother and sting them, though none has seen her in the day. If she exists, she is but one part of the sequence of Deel.And we're back! Nailing t...
Compendium PDF on DriveThruRPG
The compendium PDF is now up on DriveThruRPG. If you somehow missed all my posting about it, it contains all 48 adventures published so far, all remastered and re-edited, while some have been expanded or had new illustrations added.There's also 70 pages of new material: an illustrated bestiary a...
New Workspace, Compendium News
Man, I can't believe how long it's been! Since the end of the Kickstarter, I've been steadily at work getting the compendium sorted out. There is literally no task that doesn't explode into ten smaller tasks.The good news is that the PDF is almost done, all 178 pages; just a final fe...
Final 36 Hours
We're now in the final 36 hours of the compendium Kickstarter campaign. This is your last chance to sign up for the limited edition hardcover book.Generous backers ripped through all of the stretch goals I put down, over and over again. We now have only one left: the map pack PDF.This means the ...
Compendium Stretch Goal: 5e Stats
We've unlocked B/X stats, then Dungeon World stats, so now it's time to cue up the big one: 5th edition stats.Is fifth edition your jam? Do you know a dungeon master who would enjoy these adventures? If so, please help spread the word so we can rip the lid right off this can of void worms, a...
Drawing the Kickstarter Battle!
Hey all, today's post is a WIP video about drawing the comic for the Grinvolt-Dradkin battle in the underground fortress.As you surely know by now, as part of the compendium kickstarter campaign I'm running an illustrated play-by-post in the comments of the campaign itself. Every time we hit...
Smashing Stretch Goals
Well, four days in and the compendium Kickstarter campaign has been a smashing success, far beyond my expectations. We reached the funding goal in an hour We smashed four additional milestones in the first day At 1:30 am the first night, the 100-retweet milestone was hit as wellThat means that a ful...
The Kickstarter is Live!
The wait is over, the horn has sounded! Grinvolt axewives are now pouring down the stairs to the Dradkin fortress. Who knows how far they will get, or what awaits them in the darkness?The Trilemma Adventures Compendium is now live on Kickstarter. I can't tell you how excited I am that this momen...
Kickstarter Campaign Video Preview
Hey everyone! I'm just two days away from launching the Compendium Kickstarter, and I wanted to thank you all for your support over the months and years.I made my adventures free because I believed that they would be better at marketing than I would be. Your response has been overwhelming.I'...
Compendium Kickstarting on May 1
As you know, I've been working on a compendium of adventures for.. a good long while now. With your support, I've been redoing all of the old adventures to bring them up to spec for a book. That work is coming to an end.On May 1, I will throw open the gates at the end of the Sun Temple, reve...
WIP - Compilation TOC and Adventure List
Hey all! I've been hard at work getting the compilation ready to kickstart a bit later this year. Oodles of small tasks have crept out of the woodwork (spacer images, supplementary content, indexing the supplementary content, layout for the credits and thank you pages, etc. etc.), but it feels l...
WIP Compilation Index
http://trilemma.com/blog/post_assets/Compilation%20Index%20v0.1.pdfI've never made an index before, and to my surprise it's strangely calming, pecking through five years' worth of writing to select the useful terms.This is the result of the very first pass through the adventures. It does...
The Mouth of Spring
In every town, village, and hamlet are women who have seen beyond fear, strong enough to push back winter and bring new life to the lands. Their power comes from beneath an old, stone shrine, half-forgotten by the people of today. What secrets are known to those who dare pass through the mouth of sp...
WIP: Spring Caverns
All right, the map is done! All that's left is to scan it and clean it up and.. well, write. This is going to be a cavern system under a shrine to 'Spring', something which is referenced in both the Mermaids' knot and Litany in Scratches.I've been wanting to do another water-fill...
WIP: Lower Caverns of Spring
Continuing down from the last in-progress picture, these are the lower caverns of spring. I'm having the water drain out of the face in the bottom left. I really like the idea of a dungeon where the water draining out creates different opportunities, depending on the route chosen to descent thro...
The Raindrinkers
In sudden storms, look for the caravans of The Raindrinkers. They've made their peace with the strange weapons of the Martoi, and from their colorful mud-sleds, call for safety from the skies.This two-pager is either a wandering encounter, or a mobile settlement, depending on how you look at it....
WIP: The Spring Sequence
I felt like busting out the drawing table tonight (instead of drawing digitally), and I'm well on the way with a vertically-oriented map, showing a cavern system under a small stone shrine.I have some ideas about how this all fits together, but sometimes I prefer to work that out as I draw, doin...
WIP: Kenay of the Yazi Raindrinkers
This month I'm working with friend and guest writer Tim Groth, who has come up with a really cool clan of people who have made their peace with the strange weapons of the Martoi. More soon!
