Since I began creating Chaldea back in 1981, I’ve gone through several eras of generating and upgrading my maps of the world. Until recently, I’ve always created these myself, as I really love maps and enjoy crafting them. So, I thought it might be fun to blog about these maps and how they evolved and leveled-up over time.
In each case, I’m showing most of the continent of Niessia, which is about 10% of Chaldea.
Construct a set that contains 16-foot-long, top-heavy arches on wheels so it could be rolled aside for crew access? Challenge accepted! After completing the set of War Room, Jordin and I were ready to tackle this rathskeller design, arches and all. So, what is a rathskeller, anyway?
In my last casting blog, I discussed Chaldea audition briefs. These are particular to each character we cast and include information about the character, such as the character’s backstory and motives, as well as “sides,” which are sample lines from the script for that character. Once audition briefs are completed, we begin the audition process. In this blog, I’ll discuss the process we used for casting characters for film (as opposed to that used for casting voiceover characters).
Email surreptitiously intercepted with a few minor edits… wiki leaks?
Subject: GHC Recap — all good!
I’m at the Madison airport waiting for my flight home from Gamehole Con. It was a great weekend!
The Chaldea D&D game was full.
Marn elves run for the border and…freedom?
What does being addicted to Marn entail?
Marn elves are known for their wildly exotic tattoos, grafts, and, oddly enough, tropical fruits, which are thought to provide a variety of supernatural abilities, a side-effect of the stimulants, intoxicants, deliriants, psychedelics, and hallucinogens the Marn take.
These powerful “body enhancements” don’t come without a price—a steep price, if the theories are accurate. In pursuit of power and enlightenment, have Marners lost their identity, perhaps their very souls?
And can one physically flee addiction? Some elves believe so.
The Chaldea development team, men and women in a united voice, have always been drawn to strong, intelligent, and beautiful women: drawn to beauty for the obvious reasons, but with greater importance, drawn to strength, and not only strength of the body but of the mind.
Marcosta Kordaava, the emperor of the world and supporter of the demi-god of Set, established the religion of Set as the supreme authority and the only officially sanctioned religion of the empire. All other faiths, spiritual belief systems, and deity worship—down to the smallest devil cult—are strictly forbidden.
The Ma’at Pantheon of Pharaoh Gods is embroiled in a bloody civil war spanning the cosmos and many worlds. What might this conflict mean for Chaldea?