This week we bring you the method by which I have restocked Nightwick Abbey while running it. I find this is important to making the dungeon feel alive - or I suppose undead - as well as being able...
2022-07-14 17:10:50 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we bring the infernal genius - in the original sense - of Nightwick to life! Armadeus, Emperor of Lies, Corrupter of Hearts, Self-deluding Master of the Damned! The inevitable part II of ...
2022-06-30 03:58:05 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a tomb that answers questions! It's one of the oldest rooms in Nightwick (surviving from a 2010 version whose maps I can't use anymore for Reasons). I haven't had anyone go there recently thou...
2022-06-22 05:43:12 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we present a portion of the secret history of the World of Nightwick. This one might be a bit self-indulgent but I hope it helps give some sense of the tone of the setting. The next part ...
2022-06-09 00:37:56 +0000 UTC View Post
While the referee can arrange the geomorphs however they like - and indeed they are meant to be recombinable because of the moving nature of the dungeon - in my head there has always been a default...
2022-05-19 10:12:54 +0000 UTC View Post
These are some halls. They have bones!
Art and layout by Chris Huth.
This week we bring you the lord in charge of Nightwick village and his home, which dominants the village itself. No prize if you guess who it's based on.
Art and layout by Chris Huth. <...
Here are a couple of combat rules I use in my campaign that I think add a good deal of flavor to the setting - especially due to the increase in the need for prosthetics. Any worried these would re...
2022-05-01 03:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we offer a geomorph! One of the players I've had said he has nightmares about one of these rooms. Weird!
Art and layout by Chris Huth.
2022-04-09 04:17:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Today we have kind of an odd entry whose double-stuffed-ness I hope will make up for the lack of posts in recent weeks. Huth had misremembered my having a pumpkin headed monster in the World of Nig...
2022-04-01 20:46:07 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we present another geomorph: The Great Crypt. It sure is spooky!
Art and layout by Chris Huth.
And now the final post of February: Warlocks! These represent the leaders of the cult of Armadeus which exist within the dungeon (and there is also so more info on that in this week's post too!) 2022-03-01 01:13:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Now for a "monster" that's been appearing in the dungeon since level 1. These cultists of the pit serve their dark masters' in their aims within the strange abbey.
Art and layout by Chris Hu...
First I'd like to thank all of you for being so patient this month. Huth's bout with Covid and my own living situation troubles made most of this month fairly difficult for us to work on Nightwick ...
2022-02-25 01:35:15 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we present another village location and (potentially quest giving) NPC: Halfdan the Black. Find out the secret of his familiar!
(If you're in the Thursday game you might wanna hold...
I realized fairly recently that we had failed to put out a collected version of 2B, known to the Nightwick Regulars as "the Baroness level." We have corrected this.
There should also be more...
This week we offer you another geomorph which features the last monster I posted. What a coincidence! We're rapidly approaching the end of my original plans for the book, but more on that at a late...
2022-01-18 11:57:07 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we offer one of the most deadly monsters on level 3: a ghoul drifted down from the outer spaces and then travelled to the abbey from the Desert Lands. The vault weaver has killed a number...
2021-12-21 17:19:20 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we present some advanced versions of the Blind Dead which are found on level 3, and perhaps deeper levels. These are the animated remains of Sword Brothers who had taken the full oaths to...
2021-12-15 20:55:30 +0000 UTC View Post
My current game on Start Playing (link in the comments) has made it where I have needed to accelerate working on the player bits of the book. That combined with the insistence of my artist and layo...
2021-12-01 03:30:08 +0000 UTC View Post
I made a decision early on in the development of Nightwick that I wanted elves to be too weird to be player characters. I needed something to replace their niche in the character options and I reac...
2021-11-11 14:42:46 +0000 UTC View Post
I apologize for the paucity of posts as of late. My wife and I are currently in the process of moving to a different state and my attention has been unfortunately elsewhere. Thankfully Huth stepped...
2021-11-03 07:31:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Wait this post is... familiar. Oh right. I did it on my blog a bit ago. Well we thought it would be good to do a layout for it for the book and to add some art and content for particular familiars ...
2021-10-10 14:28:10 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we bring you another geomorph: the catacombs! They're haunted by the ghouls and knight of armadeus we posted earlier in the month. Spooky!
Art and layout by C Huth
This week we present a World of Nightwick version of a classic monster. It's also one which is common on level 3: the ghoul.
Art and layout by Chris Huth.
When I was first writing Nightwick Abbey it became clear to me that the dungeon would require demons of lower hit dice than those found in OSE and similar games. If a Type I demon was the lowest le...
2021-09-14 19:55:25 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we introduce the external entrance to level 3. This lies in the graveyard described in the earlier post describing the upper works. The relative danger of this area compared to the other ...
2021-09-11 02:22:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Here we present a discussion of the Demon Lords of the World of Nightwick focusing specifically on those that have an active presence within Nightwick Abbey itself. Unfortunately for the sons of ma...
2021-09-01 06:41:54 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we offer a monster that is infamous among the groups that have played in Nightwick. I have always referred to them in the Broken Dead in my notes, though the longest running Nightwick gro...
2021-08-20 21:24:12 +0000 UTC View Post
First of all, let me apologize for the absence of posts the past few weeks. For two of them I had various challenges related to medicine and finding a job and more recently Huth was knocked out by ...
2021-08-08 19:22:19 +0000 UTC View Post