Shuting down this blog

Hello readers,

My website has a new blog platform that I’m going to start using. This will consolidate all of Knightvision Studios information in 2 places vs. 3 right now.

Here’s the touchpoints for KVS:

Website: Knightvisionstudios.com
Ebonyr Campaign Setting
The Backstage Pass Blog

This will be my last post here.

Faith of the Halflings (and others)

I’ve been struggling for weeks, if not months, on coming up with a monotheistic religion analogous with Judaism. I keep thinking this would come from the human race on Ebonyr because they are the most dominate and populous.

I was watching the new Caprica show on the SyFy channel and I was intrigued how RDM isdetailing the Tauron population in the series. I guess they’re akin to Italians or Sicilians. Then it hit me like a ton of bricks: start the religion with the Halflings which spread to parts of the human-dominated regions of Ebonyr. Brilliant! (IMHO)

So here’s a brief synopsis:

Type: monotheistic

God: Sajol

Teachings: Book of Sajol, Book of Light (Prophets)

Full detail (beta stage) is on the website.

 

Enjoy!

Map of Helatia, Capital of Sarundan

Well, I’m back on the map-making drill. I came up with a new nation called Sarundan. The capital is Helatia (Pop 13,000+) and across the bay is Little Town (official called Helatia Minor).

I’ve shown the location of Helatia on the big map.

Creative exercise – new island map

Last night I started to sketch out some locations for future VisionVentures in Ebonyr. I received some inspiration from a couple of maps on ENworld.org.

This island will be established in the Jewel Sea area with more details to follow.

Logo creation tips

I’ve been asked how I make the logos on my websites. I have to be honest, I cheat, I really don’t have an artistic bone in my body. I do give myself credit for the maps, even though Fractal Mapper 8 helps me out a lot.

 I use a variety of online services to assist me in logo creation.

 http://supalogo.com/ Great little service to create logos on the fly

http://cooltext.com/ I’ve used this service for along time. They keep adding new fonts and service which keeps me coming back for more.

 Enjoy!

Races of Ebonyr

Ok, I’ve decided to focus on the campaign setting and use the core rules for Swords & Wizardry for the races.

Humans

• Roakan (European)

• Ibriy (Gypsy/Slavic)

Dwarves

• Mar-Zhud (Water-borne)
• Dver-Zhud (Underground/Above ground)

Elves (Draven)
Halflings (Timberfolk)

Still working on Ebonyr

I’ve been working diligently to get all of my notes either in MS One Note or Google Docs so I can really get Ebonyr off the ground. I have over 9 years worth of notes spread out between notebooks (on and offline), Microsoft One Note and Google Docs. At one point I also used Evernote and Zoho Notebook for note storage. I think I finally have a handle on my information.

One big writer’s block that I have is the world timeline and races. Every time I think I have it down I see what other campaign setting developers have come up with and my mind goes in a free fall.

I think I may have solved the races of Ebonyr. I’m just going to use the Swords & Wizardry core rules races and have a few races modified for certain environments.

Of course, I’m still working on the basic timeline of the world. (It’s tougher then you think)

I thought it would be cool to have some water-borne dwarves for some great maritime adventures as well as some other twists and turns.

The Ebonyr campaign setting has really started to take shape. I have 5 nations started as well as the cosmology.

I’m currently looking for a writing/creative partner for this endeavor. So, if you have nothing to do and want turn on the imagination, drop me a line.

Heirandos District Map

Well as you can see from my recent posts and tweet (from twitter) I’ve been very busy of late getting this project off the ground (yet again) and moving towards completion. These four day weeks are a real blessing for me to relax and get creative.

I worked on some Heirandos map touch-ups and also made this district map.

City of Heirandos Part III

I’ve tried yet another design for Heirandos and my maps. I made this entirely in Paint Shop Pro.

New religion for Ebonyr

For the past several weeks I’ve been tweaking the religions for the Inner Sea area of Ebonyr. I came up with a quasi-monotheistic religion called the Septine Church. Sept is an English word for a family division.

Here’s a quick peek with more to come:

Septine Church - Five faces of God

Father

Mother

Teacher

Craftsman

Warrior

Destroyer (not worshiped by the mainline church)

Structure:

Grand Patriarch

Patriarch

Vicar

Master Deacon

Deacon

Initiate

Theology and Practice

The Septine Church believes in one god with five unique aspects. Adherents can worship all or one face of god at temples and shrines dedicated to that aspect. The Church does not recognize any other gods and teaches that anyone outside of the church will be consumed by the Destroyer (devil).