#ye olde

[nostalgicfun]

[uwudonoodle]

[2minutetabletop]

Today I have released a new unmarked region map, an excellent canvas on which to paint your next campaign, or perhaps a region to insert into your existing world!

→ The Lands of Roulimar

Cradled by impossibly tall mountains and bordered by icy wastes, the lands of Roulimar reject all but the most determined settlers.

I have been itching to draw another region map for some time now, but they’re a difficult thing to tame! Par for the course, Roulimar went through a great deal of thought and revision along the way, but I’m quite fond of the final version and feel like each region map I draw is better than my last. That’s a win in my books!

I’ve purposely left Roulimar devoid of map features, as I think that a blank map is more useful to most people than one with cities and towns already placed. This way, it could just as easily be untouched wilderness suitable for a West Marches style game. Alternatively, you can dot it with a few settlement features and be ready to go.

Download it here: The Lands of Roulimar

I hope you enjoy the occasional region map like Roulimar, as they're a great challenge and a lot of fun to draw. Never fear though! Plenty more battle maps and assets to come in the next few weeks. :)

[bryenax]

Ye olde fucke boye aesthetic

[jonnyworld]

Absolute Shambles...

[rakunrat]

TIL that in the middle english period the letter y and the letter thorn looked the same, and, because of that, can be easily mistaken for one another. Which leads me to The Worst news I have ever received, which is that when you have all them funny 'ye olde' signs it actually just says the. it says the olde. the. i am screaming.

[londiniumlundene]

Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese and Polly the Parrot

Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese on Fleet Street (entrance down the alley known as Wine Office Court) is possibly one of London’s best known “olde” pubs. Rebuilt in 1667 after the Great Fire, over the years it has had many famous “regulars”, including Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alfred Tennyson, Mark Twain and P. G. Wodehouse. It was also a favourite haunt of journalists back in the days when Fleet Street was still the hub of the British Press.

For around 40 years, Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese was home to Polly, an African Grey parrot with a penchant for spouting obscenities and imitating popping corks. He/she (no one seems entirely sure) was incredibly popular with the regulars, and even received visits from such famous people as Charlie Chaplin. When Polly died in 1926, around 200 newspapers marked the parrot’s death with an obituary, and the sad news was read out on 2LO (the BBC’s London radio station at the time). Despite being an ex-parrot, Polly can still be found at the pub today, stuffed and kept inside a glass case above the bar.

[ersahtz]

Wodehousian expressions we should all adopt:

Bally

Blasted

No good trying to hush it up at this time of day - for true things that you don't like for example having an exam

Something in that - for obvious things.

Infernal

Foul

Wart-hog

Pipsqueak

Till you burst your corsets

Bloodstained - usage similar to Bally, blasted etc

Barmy

Ruddy

Not by a ruddy jugful

Dashed

Dashed sight

Mug

...as dammit