Weird Wayfaring - A crowd sourced hexcrawl

Here's the download.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1SyTiTG1OpXtvE4fSBe0OilJq7FrEH22u

A fun little collaboration with a bunch of good folks over on mewe.

Introduction:

Welcome to the outlands, beyond civilized society.  The civilizations to the south have outlawed magic, and wiped all monsters off the face of the world.  What lives to the north has survived and thrived. This is a weird place. There is a mixture of the exotic, fantasy, mutants and space themes running thru this hexcrawl.  Please enjoy, modify or run it as is for your players. May the Gods have a bit of mercy on their souls.

Written By: Ivan Sorensen, Shane Ward, Daniel Luce, Scott Malthouse, Vance A, AJ Fritz, Stephen Anderson, Edward Kann, Scott Charlton, Goblin’s Henchman, Graphite Prime, Alistair Langsford, Tito B.A. Michael Kennedy, Matt Jackson, Graphite Prime, James 'Jeshields' Shields, Caleb Collins, Chef En Fueg, Tim Shorts.

So basically I've been a bit busy.

Pardon the rambling.

Just latetly I wrote an adventure for Matt Jackson.  He has a series of Barrow mounds that he is populating.  

The one I did was called "The Grey Acolyte" and it's just been released.  Here:  https://www.patreon.com/posts/23784003

The setup:
The Grey Acolyte was burned long ago as a heretic.  He preached that the world would change, the gods would fade and the land would rot.  After he was burned, his carcass was thrown into a makeshift grave to be forgotten about.  Rumours exist the he was buried with ancient religious texts, and the wealth he accumulated from worshippers.  The wealth was thought to be tainted.

Just a quick note, It's friggin deadly! The rules are B/X Essentials.

I intend to do a few more of these. I like them because most of the maps don't have a pile of rooms in them. It allows for some major creativity!

Matt gave me a crazy shout out, which was very nice:
The always awesome @Shane Ward mentioned in his latest AnchorCast that he wrote an amazing adventure for me and I have failed to share it with the world! So Happy New Year all, and enjoy a most excellent adventure written by the awesome Shane Ward!

In other news, I'm almost finished the layout project for D-oom publishing.  Should have it completed tonight.  Then onto a NEW layout project.  A heartbreaker house rules project.  Woo! I'm excited about that.

In other other news, I created a group on mewe called "the lab". The gist of which is a place to bounce ideas off of people, push each other to complete things, possibly collab when needed.  If you are interested it's here:  https://mewe.com/group/5c3125b6ff70c83347de4e84

My intention was a place to bounce writing ideas off of each other. I remember when I first started on gplus and there was so much fun stuff happening, conversations would quickly turn into fun gameable stuff. Later on FB the "FY DIY rpg group" did some fun stuff as well.

Oh and I recorded a podcast on the weekend:  https://anchor.fm/gilligans-isle-of-add

On a personal note, I'm desperately trying to not bite my nails this year.  So far so good.   3 days.  Oh and I really want to learn how to spell "unfortunately" correctly this year.

My "mewe" experience so far

I believe today is day 3? I'm not sure.  So far so good.  There's a lot of nice things about the new platform.  No add's is wonderful, limited space for picture uploads isn't the best (but hey it's free right! this is how they make money, you get 8 gigs to start which is fine). 

A few things I've decided on, and thoughts:

1.  I'm not going to join as many communities as I did on G plus, for the simple sake of seeing less cross posts of "hey I got this new thing, check it out!".

2.  When posting an update I intend to use a hashtag first, this will allow a reader to skip over if they are not interested.  example:  #life "something about my life you don't care about".  #gaming "totally killed a dragon, here's the play report".

3.  If a "advanced fighting fantasy" isn't created in the next day, I'm going to go ahead and make one.  As I still care about what is happening with that game.

4.  It's fairly easy to tailor your experience.  And they are apparently working on things like "Circles".

5.  Everyone is fairly cheery in the OSR chat, this morning there was a lot of "Good mornings".

6.  Feels a bit like a community again.

7.  Thus far there hasn't been a lot of political posts.  Hopefully it stays that way.  I haven't really seen any "alt right or left" things cropping up. 

8.  I feel like there is going to be a lot more blogging going on, which is good! (Let's get back to our roots).

9.  I am getting a whole new friends list, which is great.  On g plus I had a lot of people I was following who A.  Stopped Posting   B.  May have been spam  C.  Started following, and then I realized that they were not really posting about games.

So far, so good.  You can find me here: https://mewe.com/i/shane.ward11

Mass Exodus! How to find me! and new blogs!

So apparently Google Plus is shutting down.  Which sucks.  It seems that a lot of people have decided to adopt MEWE 

A google plus community called "G+ RPG Escape Rocket" is organizing where everyone is going.

One pretty cool thing that has come about because of this "running for the hills" is that everyone is putting up their contact information (links to where they are).  I know have a HUGE blog list that I'll be adding to my random acts of roleplaying. (all new stuff that I wasn't following before).

Here's the list:
https://ravengodgames.blogspot.com/

http://fictioneers.net/resources

http://abraxarba.blogspot.com/

http://www.crossplanes.com/

http://fantasyheartbreak.blogspot.com/

http://www.yesthievescan.com/

https://themichlinguide.wordpress.com/

http://maziriansgarden.blogspot.com/

http://nosfecatu.blogspot.com/

https://ynasmidgard.blogspot.com/

https://blog.thesconesalone.com/

https://lurkerablog.wordpress.com/

https://spacecockroach.blogspot.com/

https://weirdwonderfulworlds.blogspot.com/

https://dismastersden.blogspot.com/

http://frothsofdnd.blogspot.com/

http://thoughtsofabarbarian.blogspot.com/

FINDING SHANE
I jumped into MeWe:  mewe.com/i/shane.ward11
My Anchor Podcast is here: https://anchor.fm/gilligans-isle-of-add
I have a twitter account, but barely use it (same with reddit): https://twitter.com/3toadstoolspub
email: shanepatrickward AT gmail DOT com.

THOUGHTS
I have a few thoughts on the mass move.  First on mewe, I'm not intending on joining a lot of communities.  For the simple sake that the echo chamber of "hey check out my new thing!" will be cross pollinated in the communities.  As it stands I joined the OSR and OSR Anchorites pages.  I am hoping that someone creates a "Advanced Fighting Fantasy" page, as I'm still interested in the going's on there.  As well, hopefully someone creates a DIY/RPG page.

I have to admit that I think I will probably spend a LOT more time blogging/podcasting and focus less on the social media part of the RPG community.  That said mewe seems pretty cool so far.  As far as facebook is concerned, I've often considered dialing it back a bit (as it's giant tire fire, time waster).  The one super cool thing on fb is the "Table top one shot group", a lot of games are organized thru it. 

I think if I pull back a bit on the social media part of the RPG community it will allow me to get shit done.  I tend to do a lot of "comparing myself to others" (which social media doesn't help with). 

Long story short, I'm going to miss google plus, and I am very thankful for all the friends I've met on it and the resignation of playing RPGs that it provided me.  The best way to contact me is the above at this point, specifically mewe.  I may tweet more often, but I always found it rather clunky.

And of course you can always me. 

Keep those dice rollin!