Hill Cantons

Are these poorly-masked adventure hooks?

For centuries the Wee Peoples of Zěm have occupied a peculiar place within the Overking's domains.

10 Wizards of the Hill Cantons # Name Description 1 Magister Dobromil the Cauterizer Specializes in magical “cleaning” of reality leaks.

# Name Description 1 Mother Feketa Mummified, animate matriarch who rules her tenement block from a tub of heated mud.

Hirelings & Henchfolk d10 Name Role Notes 1 Oldrik the Rope-Whisperer Porter Speaks to rope as if it were alive.

[This being the players handout for an adventure I have been cooking for my weekly Hill Cantons home game.]

I have been busy, busy in both real world and Hill Cantons-y writing.

Can't stop, won't stop.

Three immense bathhouses--the tidy Punctilious Polevik, the seedy-chic Black Pomegranate and the dimly-lit Mongotarium--serve as popular centers for business and hanky panky in Marlinko.

Hello remember me, people?

Grandma Gaya, the Rav-Witch of High Kezmarok, seeks the stout of limb and humble of mind in the obtaining of fallen stars from an upcoming prophesied shower in the Field of Levic in Revoca Canton.

I still love the old ways, you can pry the increasingly deviant BX/OSE/LL subvariant of HC house system from my cold dead hands.

And now the news from the Hill Cantons… The great half-ruined southern metropolis of Kezmarok is back in the shouted news of Cantonal town criers with recent developments.

A quick update on my personal Ahabic project, the Slumbering Ursine Dunes Omnibus, TLDR version: the alpha version is going to be released today exclusively for my long-suffering Patreon backers, Hill Cantons players, and the usual frauds/ne'er do wells/v…

Friends, it's been a long while as I have been taking a long turn playing political player in the so-called real world instead of the shiner ludic one out here.

Every year the Black Friday comes.

And now the News...

We return to our regularly scheduled program of fortnightly updates from the Hill Cantons campaign.

I've been fielding a lot of questions by email and DM on the various books of the Hill Cantons (Slumbering Ursine Dunes, Fever-Dreaming Marlinko, Misty Isles of the Eld) and the setting in general.

[A new Revoca Hill Cantons book chapter, featuring the Tarn Tomb of Morvna (a dungeon), is about done.

It's self-styled Throwback Thursday and having just released the 34-page draft booklet of Hill Cantons news to my Patreon backers I am going to indulge my summer whims and re-post an old post (with small updates) I put together on the use of campaign news…

[The following is an "origin story" of sorts for the Revoca Hill Cantons Book and a fatherly love letter to my son, Sammy, who is the original Blue Bear creator.

[Pandering note: if you find this blog helpful and most of all want to help me get a new Hill Cantons book out please consider backing my Patreon.]

[Before we get into today's matter at hand, if you find this blog helpful and most of all want to help me get a new Hill Cantons book out please consider backing my Patreon.

I wanted to give readers of this here blog a better sense of the Revoca book ahead, the fifth Hill Cantons book and the first non-SUD installment.