From Gobcocker toBeyond!!!

When the Warlock designed Tales of the Warlock: Revenge of the Gobcocker, I wanted an adventure that was good for starting characters. I also wanted to have a game setting, complete with its own forests, towns, roads... everything. Knowing that I couldn't do a whole world in 110 pages, I decided that I would detail a small part of the world, and make sure that it could fit into existing campaigns that people might be running. Then, I would expand my world in existing books.

I think I was pretty successful in making Houndshire and the Graywood Forest a place that could fit in almost any campaign setting. A year later my gaming buds and I decide to reboot our D&D game. I had some pretty elaborate ideas of what I wanted to do and found that I had ran out of time and was not ready to go by the time the game was starting... I needed to buy some time.

So, I decided to run Tales of the Warlock: Revenge of the Gobcocker as the start of the campaign. I knew this would give me about 3-4 weeks of gaming if I played it right. That would be more than enough time to fill out the old-school, sandbox adventure I was planning at the start. As with most of my campaigns, as soon as the players started rolling dice and making decisions, the story took on a life of its own and the characters in Revenge of the Gobcocker started to find homes in this longer running campaign I was planning.

So, in this picture, I am introducing to my players a priestess that is spending some time in a keep they are staying in. You will recognize Lady Eva at her feet. Lady Eva as it turns out, is the keep's bailiff, a rather powerful administrator. I'm very interested to see how things will develop as the story progresses and Revenge of the Gobcocker, The Lost Eye of Kuntsfell and this old-school module all blend together to make up a totally new story at my gaming table!!!