Trillolara, Land of the Bards. ( Alignments: LN, LG, NG, CG, CN, N)
Most of the games I ran occurred in this area.
Farseeker Tower is a small traveler/tourist trap about halfway between Fondfield and the seaport on the coast. Price hikes ? Yes. The players decided not to stop there, and moved on. Camping by the roadside part way to Dtranyo Castle.
Many of the ‘watch towers’ in my campaign, particularly in the Trillolara and Dank Forest nations, are based on the ‘Frontier Forts of Kelnore’ maps from Judges Guild. These are basicaly rectangular forts, with small towerettes near each corner. Barely qualify as keeps… Open courtyard, wooden gate, a small living area on one side of the courtyard and part of the wall. A small basement, with 3 small areas and one larger area. Not easy to defend. What is a towerette? A small tower, barely large enough to qualify as a tower.
More of a widened area of the wall walk, with crenelations and machiolations. Most are in ruins, and are no longer in use. Most towerettes can hold one or two people. Small round towers came into use a number of game years later, and are stronger and more easily defendable. Probably early Age 11 was when these forts were last seriously used, but a few remain in active use here and there.
One group of player characters found some folks suspended in time in the basement of one… Merlin the Magician and Jirel of Joiry being those so trapped there. These are called Dtrig Forts in my campaign.
(I got the information for these characters from Dragon magazine articles called ‘Giants in the Earth’. This would be in issues earlier than issue 100.)
But the watch towers from the Symbol Set 1 sold by Profantasy, are the ones shown on the rest of the maps.
Such a small nation, to have so much influence in the Southern Hemisphere… Maybe they have friends in high places ? Sky-god indeed… :-) Nope, not the DM !
Braydont entrance | buildings at Braydont Castle | Gug’s Store |
Braydont area | Boonmuck | Triwell | Inn of the Three Wells
Dtgllo Castle ruins | Dtillan Orsti sea port
Falla Keep site map adventure | Fondfield entrance page town
Hommlet area village | Khilla Keep site map ruins
Trillolara area map nation
Sraa Keep ruins | Site entrance page
