r/Dolmentown

West Marches/Braunstein-style campaign on Discord with multiple referees and multiple parties.

Looking for more adventurers for our ongoing Dolmenwood campaign! Three nights of adventuring every week, drop in on whichever nights work for you, as often or infrequently as is convenient.

A campaign now going for over 3 years, with a dozen+ players exploring and changing the same persistent world. Player-driven sandbox, 1:1 time, XP for gold.

There’s also play-by-post and faction play, plus a Monday night Braunstein at 7 PM Eastern for those interested in intrigue, negotiation, and controlling a faction.

Free and low commitment. Ask for an invite if interested.

Though only adjacently related to Dolmenwood, this may help to give some clearer answers as to why NG’s online store is only doing US shipping for now.

Spoiler: >!It’s tariffs!<

Pretty much just the title.

All the other semi-martials get d6 hit die, but the poor Thief gets both the worst armour and only d4 HD, which seems a little strange to me. The armour at least makes narrative sense as the Thief is a stealth character, but I don't see why they're any less durable than the Enchanter, for example. Sure, the Thief levels up slightly faster, but not by a large margin. If that were the issue then there's the Cleric that levels up faster than the Enchanter and actually makes it to levels 12-15 faster than the Thief. On the face of it, all the other classes seem to fit a pattern, Martials: d8, Non-Martial: d4, all the other Semi-Martials: d6, Thief: d4.

Those of you who've been following the development of Dolmenwood, do you know if this has been discussed? Is it just to maintain backwards compatibility with OSE? Is there some balance issue that's not readily apparent to me? Just tradition? Something else?