I’ve been notified by comment that the author of Twin Valley has updated the module and has another one available and some more on the way over on his site. Could well be worth your time to go take a look.
Didn’t get much done over the weekend, Ryan’s 7th birthday party was Saturday which is pretty much a whole day affair with the cleaning before and after.
I did make a new ‘race’ of creatures to use as a general area environmental hazard. The Katahn – (n: ka-tawn adj: ka-tawn-ee) who are nomadic tribals who tend toward evil at least against outsiders. They’re a small active race, in battle they use lightning strike tactics, blow through an enemy camp each katahni doing as much damage in as short a time frame as they can and then they disapear into the night. They respect a warrior and treat all others with disdain. Each group is ruled by a warrior who rules by rite of combat and has a wiseman to advise him on the ways of life outside of battle but the ruler’s decisions are final and absolute. At times the groups will band up together to go after the spoils of a larger target than they might overcome on their own but such groupings always fall apart once the battle is over and if the battle is going badly then perhaps before it’s over.
The katahn’s signature weapon, the jakar, is a curved thick bladed sword sharpened on both sides, typically with a hooked notched on the top 2 or 3 inches from the point. The typical warrior will either dual wield two jakar, or one and a wide bladed punch dagger in his weaker hand. From a distance the katahn ranged warriors use talatls, short javelins that they fit into a 18 to 24″ throwing stick which lets them hurl them with greater speed and force than arm alone. All katahn are also familiar with their shorter range throwing weapons, a heavy curved wooden shaft set with a piece of granite or metal used primarily to disable and wound rather than kill. A common tactic for the katahn are to wound in their initial attacks and then harry their enemy and pick off the stragglers and the wounded as they can.
I’m not sure yet where I’m going to introduce these guys but they should form quite a signature enemy for the players.
In other news it’s been slow. No new books out that I know of, the forums are pretty boring right now, it’s not uncommon for the first page of the various forums to have posts from a week ago.
