A perpetual autumn campaign setting for old-school fantasy roleplaying.
The Development Journal of Samhain Vale
I realize that most people, especially in America, are no where near ready for autumn. For me it lives in my heart pretty much year round. At the Wisdom household we are a mere two weeks away from going full ham on decorating our home in our favorite Halloween decor....
I have written a few roleplaying games in my life, some I'm not proud of and others I am still sitting on. One of those games is a rules-light-to-medium sort of game. Being inspired by more than a few games I came up with a rules set that I was really enjoying. It was...
I made a good decision when I decided to play in the Samhain Vale for my weekly games. Inevitably, the players start asking for things that become the "next focus". The gods have been coming up a lot in our games and I was asked to provide a write up of the gods of...
I started another project for Samhain, Oracle Cards. Taking inspiration from Mildred Payne's Oracle of Black Enchantment.This is not my only inspiration, as games like Tales of Argosa also have their Deck of Signs. Let alone Runehammers, ICRPG Think Deck which I used...
Welcome to, By Candlelight! Periodically I will be posting my musings, campaign setting development, frustrations, and game design here. This will be more of a journaling of my processes of creating, Samhain Hearth & Horror. It has already been a long process as I...