Fear and Darkness

Introduction

A Wyzard World (tm) Production

The Player Characters

• Abelard Trollslayer, Fighter 12/12 HP
• Finnegan the Filcher, Magic-User 6/6 HP
• Joto the Iceman, Fighter
• Shandor the Peddlar, Magic-User 6/6 HP
• Klavier the Clever, Magic User, 7/7 HP
• Posel Shield-Reader, Fighter
• Bagrat the grumpy, Fighter 16/16HP
• Blank OD&D Character Sheet

The Encumbrance Ape

• Abelard Trollslayer
  • Kit(carried): 6 stone
  • Treasure (carried):
  • Total encumbrance: 6 stone
  • Movement: 9"

• Klavier the Clever
  • Carried Gear: 4 2/3 Stone
  • Treasure (carried):
  • Total Encumbrance: 4 2/3 Stone
  • Movement: 9"

• Shandor the Peddlar (9 stone total)
  • Backpack 1 stone

• Posel Shield-Reader: 6 Stones Total
  • Treasure:
  • Current Encumbrance: 6

• Bagrat the Grumpy: 9 Stones total
  • Treasure:
  • Current Encumbrance: 9

• Large sack 1 stone
• Small sack 1/3 stone
  • Spellbook (blank) 1/3 stone
  • 2 Parchment (sheet)
  • Flint and steel 1/3 stone
  • Ink vial 1/3 stone
  • Quill

• Lantern 1 stone
• Hemp rope (50ft) 1/3 stone

• Dagger (small weapon) 1/3 stone
• Heavy flail (two-handed) 2 stone
• Sling (2gp) (20 bullets) 1 stone

• Leather helmet 1 stone
• Leather Armor 1 stone

Mounts and Beasts of Burden

• Sarah, Abelard's mule
  • 9 days trail rations (Abelard)
  • 100' rope (Abelard)

• Uva, Shandor's donkey (7 stone total)
  • Saddle bag 1/3 stone
  • Wine (common pint) 1/3 stone
  • Rations, preserved (8 days) 1 stone
  • 10 ft pole 1 stone
  • 4 Torches 4/3 stone
  • Bedroll 1 stone
  • Winter blanket 1 stone
  • 3 Oil flasks 1 stone

• Biscuit, Klavier's Mule (3 1/3 Stone)
  • Saddle Bag (1sp, 1/3 Stone)
  • 10 days of preserved rations (5gp, 1 1/3 Stone)
  • 50 ft. Hemp Rope (1gp, 1/3 Stone)
  • 2 pints wine (2gp 2/3 Stone)
  • 10-foot pole (2sp, 2 Stone)

• Samuel the Uncloven, Joto's Draft Horse (5 1/3 Stones)
  
  • Saddle 1
    
  • Saddlebag
    • 4 days' feed 2/3)
      
  • Saddlebag
    • 8 torches 1
  • Shovel 1
    
  • 50' hemp rope w/grappling hook 2/3
    
  • Backpack
    • 3 days' trail rations 1/3
    • Winter blanket 1/3
    • Bedroll 1/3
    • Flint & steel
  • Short bow 1
    

Maps

From time to time, the players may map wilderness or dungeon areas. Links to maps and descriptions of those areas should be placed here.

Languages

Every PC knows the common tongue as their native language. Below I will list some possible languages; ask if you have other nominations.

• Goblin (Works with any of the goblinoid races)
• Fey (For fairy and forest type creatures)
• Draconic (The tongue of dragons.)
• Giantish
• Old Amaranthian (Dead language, was spoken in a widespread sorcerous empire)
• Thracian (Originally Spoken by a widely-traveled group of seafaring kingdoms. Still spoken in some isolated colonies.)
• Elven
• Dwarven
• Primalingua (Spoken most frequently by powerful spirits. Useful in incantations, ambitious players may use Latin to indicate it in IC posts.)
• Void Speech (A language common to travelers in the infinite black gulfs of the cosmos)
• Elemental (the various elemental types speak slightly different dialects, but this will allow communication - the PC should pick which dialect they have greatest familiarity with)
• Reptilian (Language of the degenerate lizardfolk. They had an advanced and powerful civilization in the mists of history, but the tribes still living can no longer even read the writing on the walls of the great ziggurats their ancestors raised. The written form is incomprehensible to humans.)
• Necrosian, being the common language of the dead. Not considered a dead language.

The Style Guide

The Campaign's Style Guide is a page subject to further modification and clarification. I absolutely encourage players to bring up any issue related to the game's style either in the OOC thread, or with me personally via PM. These guidelines are designed to make the game fun, comfortable for the players, dramatic, and fast-moving. If the game is failing in any of those respects, I encourage you to bring it to my attention. Obviously, we've all been playing the game together long enough that we should all be on roughly the same page. This is more a codification of things I've already been encouraging rather than a completely new creation.

Setting Essays

Here will be posted the occasional essay that I write about the setting. If it seems piecemeal, that's intentional. I don't want to define too much.

I want to read the essays.

Items of Historical Interest

Here are maintained an archive of material from the earlier incarnation of the game, when it was being run under OD&D rules.

• Here can be found the original character sheets: The Wyzard Runs OD&D: The Slayers
• Missing, Retired, or Dead PCs
• Campaign Miscellanea
• OD&D Rules Material
• A collection of oddments and citations from the various game threads: The Wyzardly Encyclopedia

Links to the game-related threads

• IC IV
• IC III
• IC II
• IC
• OOC IV
• OOC III
• OOC II
• OOC
• Recruitment
• AP