Midderlands GM Screen & Gloomium Randomiser

Description

Midderlands GM Screen & Gloomium Randomiser

The Midderlands GM Screen is a four-panel 400gsm card screen featuring a Midderlands scene on the player’s side and all important GM charts and tables on the other. The screen folds to A5 size for neat storage with your other Midderlands books.

 The Gloomium Randomiser

The Gloomium Randomiser Card is a simple die drop device allowing the GM to instantly see the effects of Gloomium items in the game.

Introducing The Midderlands Campaign Setting

The Midderlands is an old-school game setting with bestiary for use with old-school role-playing games. It is based on Swords & Wizardry Complete, but could easily be used with other old-school systems such as Castles & Crusades and even non-OSR systems such as D&D or Pathfinder.

It is a green-hued, dark-fantasy, late-middle ages, early-renaissance view through grime-smeared spectacles. The setting itself is based on an area in the middle of England near where I live called The Midlands. Many of the locations are loosely based on reality, but others are pure fantasy from an addled mind.

The setting part of the book contains something the author calls “game-juice”. Not heavy of history and monotonous detail, but enough to get the game-juices flowing and let the Game Master twist and tweak as they need to in order to fit their campaign.

Content Warning: Adult humour and occasional swear words are used in this setting

Where are The Midderlands?

Situated in the middle of Havenland is an area known by the ancestors as the Middle Havenlands. They don’t use that name much any more, preferring to talk lazily, and skip letters. In strange accents, often misheard and little understood by those outside of the central region – they call it “The Midderlands”, and themselves “Midfolk” or “Midderlanders”.

There are many peculiar folk who call these Midderlands home. Generally mistrusting of outsiders, they suspiciously eye strangers, close doors, bar windows and scurry in opposite directions. Maybe the area has had a troubled history and that is why the folk behave the way they do.

All that aside, there are good folk too. These folk just want to subsist peacefully and not have interference or “goings on” in their lives. Nothing is ever that simple.

As well as the people of the area, there are the places. The towns and hamlets, the woods and hills, the lakes and the rivers. Amongst all these places are stranger locales too; circles of stones, strange towers, castles and burial grounds.