Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Five Leagues Campaign Turns 5, 6, and 7

Three more campaign turns have been posted!

See the full campaign.

Here are some highlights (spoilers): 

In the Elven Gardens the young follower "Shrub" became the hero "Hedge."

Brigands were tracked through the wilderness all the way to Wyvern's Rest.
Several happenings conspired to delay the recovery of the messenger's Satchel.
The trail was permanently lost after an odd encounter with a memory manipulating scholar wearing a lotus signet ring.


That evening in Wyvern's Rest, the company was robbed and followed the thieves back to their camp. The thieves were defeated and a lot of gold was recovered, but the correspondence in the messenger bag was gone.

Thursday, February 20, 2025

Five Leagues Campaign Turns 3 & 4

Two more campaign turns have been posted!

Turn 3 : The Missing Satchel

Turn 4 : Highway Wolves

Or see the full campaign.

Here are some highlights:

An encounter

Brandal summons a genie and Benniard becomes the wolf!

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Monday, February 17, 2025

Starting Five Leagues from the Borderlands

This effort will describe a miniatures wargame campaign play-through of Five Leagues from the Borderlands (3rd edition).  

Five Leagues from the Borderlands is a solo adventure wargame where you take the role of a warband of heroes and adventurers, and explore a grim world full of monsters, enemies, creeping malice, and exciting quests.

Five Leagues is a small book with limited lore and the game system relies on players to use their imagination to spin a story based on core elements and happenings which are generated randomly. The player may earn and spend "story points" to put their thumb on the scale, however nearly any event can be shown to be related (even intimately so) with just a little creativity. On the other hand, enemies and battles are meant to be adapted to your existing miniatures collection.

My world (and miniatures collection) will be styled primarily after Tolkien's Middle-Earth with influences from Howard's Hyborean Age, Salvator's Ice Wind Dale, Sapkowski's Witcher, as well as classic fantasy games like HeroQuest, and Warhammer Fantasy.