Rise of the Moonknights

Walker and the Moonknights reached the climax of their adventures on Ola'an.

The Rise of the Moonknights

chronicles Walker's days after the Moonwalkers.

20!

My D&D character Walker made 20th level last game. It is the first time I have played a character straight-through, legitimately, levels 1-20 in the thirty years that I have been playing D&D. Through version 3.5 level 20 was the final "regular" level of D&D. Guidelines for levels beyond that were generally considered optional or expansions.

To people who don't play the game, well I am sure they could care less (lol), but if they did care, some of them would probably be surprised. I think they would be surprised because they are used to games that have a single goal or objective, that you "win".

Most role-players will probably not be surprised. D&D is not such a game. You could have myriad goals for your character, acquiring certain items or getting certain abilities that have nothing to do with leveling. They might be role-playing goals or they might be mechanical. You might start your character after first level. You might end the campaign your character is participating in before 20th, the edition of the game might change or you might get interested in a different role-playing game. Your character could die. Your gaming group could split up.

Staying with the same campaign and characters for so many levels takes a long time and a lot of commitment. We have played consistently once a week for the last 5 years. We took some breaks along the way, maybe as long as 6 months, but we kept going. Notice it's all we. This is a commitment that has to be shared by about 5 or 6 people, come hell or highwater. No matter how much people want to play it can be hard to make the time to play.

I didn't really think about it much up until the last few months when it became clear it might happen. Then it started to seem like a great achievement.

I am happy and proud that we made it. Seeing these characters live has been a great thing.

Audience With The Oracle

In our last session the Moonwalkers contacted the Oracle near the ruins of Kellian, Quandode.

My character Walker scratched a bunch of notes in his journal.

My character uses these notes as the raw material for the book he is writing, The Three Spheres.

I really like the way these notes came out. I may expand them into an appendix to The Three Spheres, basically a Holy Lands Encyclopedia.

Moonwalkers: The Backstory

Over time people provide more info about their characters that really makes the game and takes it to a whole new level. Such is the case with the Moonwalker's in The Holy Lands. Recently we've gotten new info about:

The Fate of Cyrus
Jahiera

and Walker started his book:

The Three Spheres

more of Walker's backstory can also be found at the end of his character sheet:

Walker

Holy Lands: Approved Non-core Spells

Ashley has made available a spreadsheet for everybody to maintain their spells. It can be updated by the GM or players at the following link:

Holy Lands: Approved Non-core Spells

Hardscrabble and Dawn Keep: History & Geography

More info from Fleschner about the Holy Lands, specifically Hardscrabble and Dawn Keep.

Holy Lands: Cosmology

Ashley provided some details of the Cosmology of the Holy Lands.

The Three Spheres

My character Walker in The Holy Lands has started writing a book, The Three Spheres. It is a combination journal, philosophy book and sword fighting instruction manual along the lines of Miyamoto Musashi's, The Book of Five Rings.

Trying to write down all of the characters adventures is a large task, but I thought I could at least jot down a fragment or two, to try and evoke the spirit of the thing.

Walker Faces Fetwuther

Prophecy of Baeron

Cryptic words discovered by the Moonwalkers in a strange and forbidding place...

The Prophecy of Baeron

A Man Called Walker...

Using Google's new tools I found a way to put my characters on-line that I am relatively happy with. Walker is the first one:  

Character Sheet  

Back-story