Monday, 31 January 2022

The Halls Untoward YZE conversions

THE HALLS UNTOWARD - 

            "Centuries ago, an underground road pierced the Strielwal mountains, carrying trade in both directions. The halls grew from a humble waystation at the mid-point, but soon sprouted hostels, workshops, trading posts, and shrines.             When war with Grinvolt sealed the western end, the halls were abandoned, though rumor held that some remained behind. Now that peace reigns once more, visitors have set out to find plunder, opportunity, or the lost route through to the West. But what has become of the Halls Untoward during their strange century of evolution in the dark?"

Michael Prescott, 2-page dungeon-maker extraordinaire, and mastermind behind Trilemma Adventures put out a crowd-sourced dungeon a while back called the Halls Untoward. It’s still pay what you want on DTRPG and is packed full of his illustrations and fits really well into my favorite fantasy setting of Forbidden Lands. The dungeon is fully described and as can be expected from Michael has its own internal logic, and fun if weird locations.

I worked with Michael to turn the creatures he designed for his 2-page adventures, contained in the Trilemma Compendium, into useable monsters for fantasy games using the Year Zero Engine. This companion bestiary book became Trilemma: Servants of Memory and is specifically compatible with Forbidden Lands from Free League Games (we were given permission for a disclaimer in the front of the book).

Whilst working on the kickstarter we workshopped some ideas for stretch goals and one of the ideas that I threw into the mix was an add-on for the bestiary which would have covered creatures included in The Halls Untoward. Now, some of the creatures from the collaborative dungeon are already included in Servants of Memory but this would have added 6 additional entries and would have forced me to flex my creative muscles as most of the other entries in Servants started as conversions of 5E material (by now you should know I am fond of conversions!).

Although this idea was ultimately rejected, mainly due to trying to reconcile the YZE OGL with the CC-BY-NC that Halls' is released under, I still think its something worth looking at. As my contributions to another top secret project I am working on may be coming to an end, I thought that I would resurrect this idea for my poorly provisioned blog.

If this goes well, and doesn't take me years to complete, as you know I haven't been very active, then I may move on to the magical items that can also be found in the dungeon, and anything else that takes my interest.

Over the next few weeks I will start working through the list below, and see how far I get. Please feel free to contribute in the comments for each entry:- 

All Monster Names and Descriptions are taken from The Halls Untoward by Michael Prescott et. al. which is licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC license v4.0

All Monster Stat Blocks and Attack Descriptions are copyright Craig Atkins 2022.

All Monster Names and Descriptions are taken from The Halls Untoward by Michael Prescott et. al. which is licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC license v4.0

All Monster Stat Blocks and Attack Descriptions are copyright Craig Atkins 2022.

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