Tales of Darkmoon Vale
ew choose a life on the outskirts of Darkmoon, whose dim, mist-laden forests are prowled by feral beasts, reeking trolls, and the restless souls of the dead. Fewer still possess the steely will to venture into the haunted ruins of the once-great Dwarven kingdom. For those brave enough to claim them, treasures surpassing the dreams of princes rest beneath the rocky slopes of Droskar’s Crag, but so too does an ancient evil. Sibilant whispers ride the vale winds after nightfall, jumbled promises of doom, blasphemy and rot hissed from the darkness beneath the mountains. From deep below the earth come soul-shredding abominations, and as these unspeakable horrors rise, the lesser denizens of the Dwarven ruins are forced to the surface.
—The Pathfinder Chronicles
Tales of Darkmoon Vale Comments
Great campaign :) really like the page.
If you get time please check out our Earthdawn page, were just setting it up so it’s not much at the moment but defiantly look forward to using the site more :)
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Thanks for the feedback Hierophantasm. I really enjoyed this campaign, and Paizo did a great job with the Darkmoon Vale setting. I hope you and your players have a great time playing it as well. I’m also glad that you found some of the info on this site useful to you. Best of wishes in your own campaign man!
Cheers,
-Arsheesh
Outstanding work! It’s great to see another take on a Darkmoon Vale campaign; I myself am running one, and am awaiting a point where I can refer my players to this site, when they pass the parts where they have already experienced similar turns of events.
A pity to hear that Darkmoon Vales is not being visited by players at the moment. I think any campaign lasting longer than a year goes through changes (mainly due to player changes and the imposition of real life). I hope all goes well with Age of Legends!
Thanks Garrion, I really appreciate that. We had a good run with this campaign and I really did enjoy it allot. However, if this is the end for TDMV, I’m OK with that too. “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven” and all that.
Cheers,
-Arsheesh
I’m sorry to hear about the campaign’s status. Your site is impressive and your dedication to it is obvious. Unfortunately life throws curve balls and campaigns fall or change to fit in with them. I hope you are able to resume because it seems like you invested a lot into it.
Thanks for the support you have given back to the community.
Garrion
Attention: Tales of Darkmoon Vale is now on hiatus, perhaps indefinitely. We had a spot of conflict among some of our players. Between that and the attrition of players due to chaning work schedules, we simply didn’t have enough people to continue the campaign. There is a chance that we may pick back up sometime this Summer, but there are no guarantees present.
I want to thank all of my players for a wonderful year of gaming. I also want to thank the OP community for Your support. I met allot of good friends through this campaign.
Cheers,
-arsheesh
Hey Sheesh, just curious if you have particular places that you look for images, specifically ones with white backgrounds? I was looking at your latest adventure log, and it was pretty slick looking. Or are you just that good at google image searching?
Arsheesh — you shame me. This is awesome!
can one make a goblin witch in this setting, or say, submit one?
Kudos on the map. Awesome work!
FINAL UPDATE: Well we have found our new players and now have a full roster. I want to thank everyone who expressed interest in joining our campaign. And now to introduce the newest members of the Twilight Guard: Welverin Alurthilar, an enigmatic and absentminded Elf Mage from a distant plane, Thaylen Twinblade, a sly dual wielding rogue who began his career as an urchin living on the streets of Caldoranth, and Ithilien Silverblade, a self exiled Paladin-Knight of Arnulad whose past has come knocking upon the present. Welcome to the team guys, happy to have you on board.
Cheers,
-Arsheesh
Thanks Sandman. I have Will (one of my players) to thank for taking the initiative in introducing the formatting (which I believe he had borrowed from Chainsaw). Then it was just a matter of figuring out how to customize it to our site.
I really like the way you are implementing the Dynamic Sheets on your Player Characters arsheesh. They look awesome with your banner as a background too. Good job.
Thanks guys, much appreciated!
UPDATE: We may have found three new players for our campaign. I’ll know for sure later this week. If things work out with these guys then all the spots will be filled and we will no longer be looking for new players. However I will not know for sure until then.
If not for the fact that I live on what is nearly the opposite side of North America, I would volunteer for this campaign in a heartbeat!
I’m impressed with the layout just like everyone else.
Seeing that you’re looking for more players is a little tempting, I think for my housemate too. We’re also in Fullerton! Weekday afternoons is not good for me though, I have work.
Hope you guys are having a good time, keep up the good work.
Attention: Tales of Darkmoon Vale is now looking for more Adventurers! If you are interested in joining our campaign, please click the “Want to Join” button on our homepage to leave me a message. We typically play weekday afternoons at my place in Fullerton, CA.
Cheers,
-Arsheesh
Well hello Thekemper. I used a program called GIMP, a wonderful bit of free software that some have called the poor man’s Photoshop. I also gleaned allot of insight into fantasy map making from the Cartographers Guild.
Cheers,-Arsheesh
Just curious, what program did you use to create that map? It looks awesome. :)
Thanks Anev, Morrinn. I’ve got some really great players who have made it all worth while. In fact, recently they’ve begun to take a more active role in contributing to both the content, and the formatting of this site. There are some exciting new changes and events coming to both our campaign, and our campaign site
This is a beautiful site with a very unique layout. I wanted to let you know that I used one of your navi buttons on my site and will give creds once my acknowledgements page is up and running.
One: Really kick ass map. Two: Really kick ass layouts. I love the clean cut and hope to emulate the style in my current Vamp game (wip).
Congratulations Arsheesh! ñ_ñ
Hallelujah! Graduation here I come! And now it is time for some gaming.
Hey there Arsheesh, just thought I’d let you know I put up The Outbacker in my starting town. http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/melekar/wikis/the-outbacker Also, I have a new site layout and I thought I’d see what you thought :).
There may in fact be more maps to follow Dyluth (once I upgrade my membership that is). Right now I’m contemplating doing a city map of some sort. Course that will have to wait till I’m done with school.
Very nice job on the map indeed, it turned out very well. Is there any chance we’ll see a map of a the “Eastern” or “Southern” baronies if and when the PC’s ever migrate in those directions?
Thanks Jim! This was my second attempt at a digital map so given that, I’m pleased with how it turned out.
What a GORGEOUS map!
Hey guys, we now have a new campaign map! You can check it out in the maps tab, or in the Places wiki I have posted a link to a better resolution version of the map. Hope y’all are doing well, and I can’t wait for graduation so we can get back to gaming.
Cheers,-Arsheesh
Hey, Tad! I updated Toed’s stats (under the Description section) to reflect his new level (2nd). I’ll be out of town this weekend, but we can talk on Monday if anything comes up. Otherwise, see you Tuesday! Craig
Alright, so I finally got a chance to work on the site again. Just added tons more sites to the town of Falcon’s Hollow as well as bios on all of the kids from the Falcon’s Knights and even, drum role please, a bio for the infamous Thuldren Kreed.
Hey Craig! Thanks for pointing out the broken link. As for the description of Dawnhaven, much of it, including that line, was written by the guys as Paizo (though I have changed the town’s name). However both The Outbacker and Lerek Vanovier are my own contributions. Oh and yes, a little nod to Firefly, LOVE that show!
Tad, I just noticed that your link to “Edmund’s Journal: 4th Entry” under the “The Reavers Affair” is busted. It instead takes you to “The Reavers Ordeal Timeline.” Just a heads-up :) (I was able to find the 4th entry of Edmund’s Journal by following the main route from “Campaign Journals.”)
By the way, after typing “Reavers” several times, it makes me wonder if this name is a nod to that notorious group of baddies from the “Firefly” TV series?
Great pic of Lerek Vanovier! I had only read the description of The Outbacker, which talked a lot about Lerek, and then I clicked on the link to Lerek, and the image fit what I had already read to a tee. The description of this guy gives me an idea for what Toed might have been doing for the several days that you guys had your side adventure …
Hey, Tad! I like your little nod to Bilbo Baggins’ speech in your description of the town of Dawnhaven: “Although Dawnhaven is more than twice the size of Falcon’s Hollow, it offers less than half the excitement.” :)
Hey Guys, loot has been updated. Common weapons and equipment can be liquidated within Falcon’s Hollow at 1/2 the value listed in the Pathfinder Core Rulebook. We can handle this kind of transaction outside of game time. For more exotic items, such as MW and Magic Items, Falcon’s Hollow is too small a village to be able to handle such transactions. Appraising and/or liquidating these items will require a trip to larger town within Darkmoon Vale. If you have any specific questions regarding the loot, feel free to let me know.
Cheers, -Arsheesh
Well, Tad. I went to fill out the stats for Toed on his character description, so that in case he’s in the middle of a battle when I have to jet out to class (in the middle of the game session), you guys will have all the info you need. However, I got a bit distracted with an idea I had to turn the various stat references into hyperlinks to the Pathfinder (HTML-based) Reference Document. Check it out! In fact, that got me to thinking. I wonder if anyone has ever created an HTML-based character sheet? Anyways, that’s all I could do for now. Wow, HTML links are addicting ;)
Wow Arsheesh! That link button/image is so awesome. I wanted to do something like that on my site too. You gotta tell me how you did that. I wanted to find a way to make the text on my map images link to the wiki like here and here. I thought I would have to do something way to impossibly complicated but you pulled it off man! (high five). Think you can help me out?
Things are really coming together over here. I dig the updated button backgrounds for your navigation! I’m also intrigued by your loot tracker idea… I have been wanting to implement something similar for my campaign, because my players tend to be very forgetful. Right now I list the loot by session in the adventure log, but that is really easy to lose track of.
However, I do have a very simple Excel-based tracking system I have been using for a game in which I am a player. If you don’t mind me making a recommendation as to things to include in your tracker:
My loot table includes columns for item name, quantity, location found/previous owner, who took it, where it is stored, to ID? and any detected auras.
Hey, I figured I’d check out your campaign as you did mine. I Like the sounds of it so far, and your Eriond map is awesome! I have a world map that is, oh… 50 times or more the size of my regional map, and I’ve been trying to convince myself to do it in PS, but it’s so daunting, lol! Anyway, nice work, and the story sounds interesting too!
Arsheesh, Thanks for the “favorite” in return and the kind words. I just have to say that your site is what I will be striving for as I learn the ropes. I have no skills or training in html so I don’t know how I’ll ever be able to pull off some of the nice elements you bring to yours, but life is all about learning I always say.
I look forward to eavesdropping on your campaign and will be encouraging my players to take a peek to inspire them to participate more. Keep up the outstanding work.
Hey, thanks for the friend invite! Also, I was poking around and wondered if you did your Falcon’s Hollow map in City Designer and, if so, how you like it? If not, what did you use, because it looks great!? I’ve been tinkering a bit with CC3 and have thought about purchasing it along with City Designer, because big city maps are the bane of my existence right now. But I want to check with others who have used the software before I buy since it’s almost $70 for the CC3 base plus the add-on.
Hey Guys,
Wow! You guys are on the ball. Will, thanks for getting the ball rolling on those NPC’s and on the Loot Tracker; much appreciated. Also, I’ve awarded you another prestige point for uploading a description of your character. Craig, wow! You really went in depth on your character there, great job! I like that you’ve incorporated your knowledge of the world of Eriond into your character bio, this will surely give me some material to work with in crafting future adventures. I’ve awarded you the full 4 prestige points possible for character creation. In fact, everyone but my cleric stands at 4 prestige points right now! I’ll be awarding more prestige points at the conclusion of our first adventure, so keep up the good work (e.g. keep those NPC’s and character journals up to date) and you can expect to receive more of the same.
Also, can’t wait to game with you guys tomorrow, yay!
Cheers,
-Arsheesh
Hey DiceMasterNick, thanks for stopping by!
Regarding the blown up text, yeah that’s an impeded image. I took one of my favorite unical fonts and typed up the individual letter in GIMP at 70px, then applied a bevel & emboss (inner bevel; default settings) layer style to it. I then flattened the image, cropped it, saved it as a jpg, and uploaded it to the site. You can do the same thing using Photoshop, but if, like me, you can’t afford Photshop, GIMP is the way to go here: it’s absolutely free!
Cheers,
-Arsheesh
Wow! I really like your campaign. Very creative. I especially enjoy the format you used on your home page. How did you get the first letter blown up like that? Is it an embedded image or just a modified font?
I was sad to see that your campaign isnt running yet. I cant wait to dive into your adventure logs. Looks like you got a good team of players aswell.
I’ll have to check back in later. TTFN