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About Charles Dunwoody

Charles Dunwoody is not a robot and is willing to type tilted letters and numbers to prove it. He started playing and running RPGs with Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (before it was first edition) and is currently ten sessions in GMing Forbidden Lands. He wrote a few articles for Dragon Magazine when it was in print, wrote a bit more for Mongoose’s electronic Signs & Portents, and was paid for a supplement for Bulldogs! (d20 version) that was sadly never published and ran adventures for Bulldogs! at Gen Con. Currently, he ran demos of the Alien RPG for Free League at Gen Con 2019 and freelance writes for EN World and Geek Native. He also camps year round, backpacks, and canoes when not reading and writing. See, not a robot.

YZ Worldbuilding: Blade Runner

January 2, 2023 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

Imagine living as a have not in a future LA dominated by poverty, corporate overreach, moral quandaries, and violence. Blade Runner takes the Year Zero Engine system and couples it with investigation and existential character drama that will change and mark the player characters who survive.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic world building, blade runner, blade runner rpg, Free League Publishing

YZ Worldbuilding: Into the Odd – A Whole Campaign in One Book

December 4, 2022 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

Year Zero World Building creates campaign settings using Free League’s RPGs. This month covers Into the Odd. This one book RPG contains not only a complete rule set but also an entire campaign, including dungeons, a hex crawl, and a city all between two covers.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Into The Odd, world building, year zero world building

YZ Worldbuilding: The One Ring Vampire Lair

November 5, 2022 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

The Old Dwarf-Mines for Ruins of the Lost Realm is a landmark perfect to expand into a vampire lair. The mines are located far to the north in the Blue Mountains deep inside Dark Lands territory.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: rpg tips, The One Ring, vampires, worldbuilding, year zero engine, year zero world building

YZ Worldbuilding: The One Ring Vampires

October 2, 2022 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

This month features a return to Middle-earth via The One Ring Second Edition. PCs need a challenge as they grow in power. My answer? Vampires.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic world building, halloween, The One Ring, vampires, year zero engine, year zero world building

YZ Worldbuilding: The One Ring Spider Lore

September 4, 2022 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

Year Zero World Building creates campaign settings using Free League’s RPGs. This month features a return to Middle-earth via The One Ring Second Edition and a look at spider lore that just might uncover the webs they spin to cover Eriador in darkness.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Free League Publishing, lord of the rings, year zero engine, year zero world building

YZ Worldbuilding: The One Ring Shelob’s Siblings

August 7, 2022 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

First up are a Great Spider and a Monstrous Water Spider. Following that are the three siblings of Shelob. These siblings are inspired by three of Shelob’s spawn detailed in The One Ring First Edition. While these spiders are similar, they are tougher and far more dangerous with servants and far reaching webs of terror they spin in Shadow.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic world building, year zero engine, year zero world building

YZ Worldbuilding: Twilight: 2000

July 10, 2022 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

World War III has ended, and everyone lost. The PCs, caught up in the final battle, flee the carnage.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic world building, Free League Publishing, twilight: 2000, year zero engine, year zero world building

YZ Worldbuilding: Ruins of Symbaroum

June 5, 2022 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

Year Zero World Building creates campaign settings using Free League’s RPGs. This month is a trek into the vast Forest of Davokar for the Ruins of Symbaroum. How to kick off a campaign, and how to build your own version of this mythical setting.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic world building, Free League Publishing, rpg tips, Ruins of Symbaroum, Symbaroum, world building, year zero world building

YZ Worldbuilding: Mörk Borg

April 30, 2022 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

Year Zero World Building creates campaign settings using Free League’s RPGs. This month delves into the dying by murder world of Mörk Borg, Artpunk RPG

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic world building, Free League Publishing, mork borg, world building, year zero world building

YZW: The One Ring Landmarks and Werewolves

April 9, 2022 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

The One Ring has werewolf stats in it, but I wanted a more powerful version. So I created my own werewolf for my version of Middle-earth and placed him in the landscape called the Forgotten Hamlet.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Free League Publishing, rpg tips, The One Ring, werewolves, world building, year zero engine, year zero world building

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