About the blog

 

This blog started as a roleplaying campaign journal, but is today the platform for two fantasy novels and assorted stories of a character in a new roleplaying game.

The Journal of a Ranger recounts the journey of a group of characters adventuring in the land of Varisia. In other words, this is a campaign journal for a particular Pathfinder roleplaying game, written from the point of view of one of the player characters. The campaign is no other than Rise of the Runelords. The game started in January 2014 and finished in June 2015. It was played using  the excellent online platform Roll20.net.

Characters in the game were:

• Alice, a human mage
• Harsk, a dwarven cleric
• Alpharius, a half-elf spell-less ranger
• Alfred, a human fighter
• Saffron, a human witch

The author played Cael Greymarsh, also known as Alpharius, character with the Spell-less Ranger alternate base class.  Each journal chapter, excluding the 1st that serves as the introduction of Alpharius himself and the 28th & 34th, describes roughly a single gaming session and its events.

However after finishing the journal, the author decided to write an independent continuation novel, called Vengeance: Road to Damnation, that continues the story of the protagonists. The novel was published as weekly posts in this blog, starting in Autumn of 2017 and ending during the winter of 2017.

After years of little to no writing, the author began a fresh game using the Pathfinder 2nd Edition setting. This inspired the author to launch the Stories of Luther von Rusdorf, that annalize the background, growth and adventures of the character as the author roleplays him. These stories are excerpts, random events and scenes from Luther’s life, ranging from his childhood to the current day, written mainly for the author to learn about his character.

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Center piece of the header image “The Stranger” by Tom Edwards. See his deviantart page.

If you are the illustrator of the other two images used, please contact me!