This site, for those just joining me, hasn’t been updated in over two years, but here we go.

First, there is a new page in the histories talking about the rise of Kafre’en.  The page has the ever-so original name, The Rise of Kafre’en & The Modern Age. You can visit it from here, or you can get there via Damon’s History of the World if you haven’t read that far in the history yet.

Next, there are a few new names over on the Famous Names page.  You can read a little bit about Jälestus, the ruler of Gochanrall, or you can read about two new organizations: The Order of the Sulane & The Quilter’s Guild.

The first game will be this Saturday at 5:30.  I know I’m looking forward to it.  I will provide you each with some extra character info, and I hope to have the rest of the common knowledge up for the next game if it isn’t finished for this week.

You can find this information under the Llafanwyr link on the Geography page, or you can just go here.

There are also a few names and organizations you may not have seen on the Famous Names page, including a bit about the rulers of Llafanwyr.

If you haven’t already done so, I highly recommend familiarizing yourselves with the history, names, and geography pages a bit.  You don’t have to memorize, but a passing familiarity could expedite things.  Technically, a player can have a printed copy of the history as part of the character’s inventory (2 silvers).

I hope to have more world information up by tomorrow evening.

Players are also getting an e-mail with this information post.

Having returned to Canada and having spoken with my core gaming group, I’ve made up my mind.

The Volara campaign will be in D&D 3.5e.

I’ve weighed the options for a while now, and I think that’s the best course to take for now.

While I still feel that GURPS would be a better system for what I want to do with the world in the long run, I also think that character creation would be a much more involved process than if we went 3.5.  By extension, there would be a lot more overall rules explanations that may get tiresome in the potentially short time we have (we may only have six weeks or so).

If Amanda and I do stay here past June, then the whole thing may become GURPS.

That said, I will be running a small Infinite Worlds side-game with GURPS, just to (re)familiarize myself (and any of the players who want to try it) with the system.  A and M said they’re in, so if we can find a workable day and time, others can join too.

One more note, partly in response to R’s last comment on the previous post, it’s unlikely that Volara will be 4e at any point in the next year or so.  This is not due to any particular dislike for that system, but rather because I feel that the available material will be too limited to support what I want to do with Volara.  I suspect this may change when PHB 2 comes out.

Finally, I hope to have the full character creation rules up by tomorrow evening, so keep your eyes peeled.  I will be sending an e-mail out to the group when that page has the information up.

I’ve been reading Lore’s stuff for upwards of ten years now, including a purchase of The Ratings, from which my gaming group used to read excerpts as a kind of a warm-up to the gaming.

(Lore, if you should happen to find your way here, I’d love to see another book.)