Role-Playing Games

I am an avid table-top role-playing game (TTRPG) player. For the last decade, I have been running games as a Dungeon Master for Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition. 

Central to my philosophy as a DM is the idea of verisimilitude within my games. I want my plaers to feel like they are in a living and breathing world. To do this, I work from the ground-up to create the cultures, languages, and locations from scratch. 

My first TTRPG supplement, writing for D&D 5e, is available now at the link above. It provides a guide to the City of Zavar, and the Parenkori people, a collection of gecko-like humanoids. You can check it out here!

City of Zavar

Zavar is a small, cosmopolitan city. As a colony of the Dread City of Vrast, the city was rapidly built over the course of ten years. Nestled alongside the rapids of the Boladûr River, the small walled city is alone in the Vale of Ash. Smoke can be seen drifting from chimney stacks. Most of the buildings are small, with the largest building being a single spire with a clock face where the self-appointed Governor, Nestor the Blacktalon, rules. A single road passes through the town, hugging the river to the north and south. In the distance, the towering, snow-capped mountains fill the horizon. 

Parenkori

The Parenkori stand nearly as tall as their pride. Descendants of the dragons of old, the Parenkori are covered with many small scales, corresponding to the color of their original Broodmother.

In addition to their scales, the Parenkori share a number of other traits with their draconic kin. They possess long and spiked prehensile tails. From the base of these tails their spinal sails run up the back to their napes. Two frills emerge from the bottom of their shoulder blades along the backs of their arms, ending just before their clawed hands. Parenkori have no external ears, instead having small holes where sound is processed. These are protected by their retractable neck frills. They also lack eyelids; instead keeping their eyes moist with their long, forked tongues.