The Black Mountain District

The Black Mountain is not as ominous as it sounds. It is merely a district in the far southwest of the Dwarf Kingdom of Glon’, just north of what the humans of nearby Yulagara call the Northern Impassible Mountains. It is named for a very large, dark mountain that dominates the landscape. On the lower slopes, the mountain is covered by very dark conifers that perhaps take their color from minerals in the soil.

It is a dwarf kingdom but you meet more humans on the surface.

The District is separated from the big cities and extensive farms of central Glon’ by huge tracts of old forest and rough country. Consequently, it has developed some of its own peculiarities. One of the first noticed by outsiders is that the residents pretty much insist on including the word “The” in the name of the district. Being corrected in this matter repeatedly will usually wear a visitor down rather quickly. The District Map is attached to a sub-page.

• • BLACK MOUNTAIN DISTRICT: An overview of the District

  • GRR DRAGONS BMD: A listing of the types of dragons that can be found in the District, with some individuals described.

• GRRPEOPLE BMD: A large but incomplete listing of the people one might encounter in the District. Your player-characters may interact with them in many ways. You can put some of them into your adventures. Many of these characters are quite formidable.

• There will be more NPCs in each published adventure.

• OSR DRAGONS BMD: A listing of the types of dragons that can be found in the District, with some individuals described. This is a translation of GRR Dragons and necessarily longer because these types of dragons will not be familiar to many OSR players.

• OSRPEOPLE BMD: These are these the same people as GRRPEOPLE BMD, translated into modified White Box D&D so that people can run games in the setting using OSR/D20 rules.

• Because these are translations, there are some differences from many D&D settings: You'll see very little leather armor and a great many people wearing gambeson, a very common and effective medieval armor.

• You will also see mineral fiber armor, an invention of the dwarfs. It is not really "better" than gambeson in the view of someone who expects to fight to the death every day, a professional adventurer. However, it is comfortable, holds in heat when it is cold out, sheds heat when it's hot.

• You will see people listed as Rangers, not a White Box class. You can treat them as fighters with some woodland skills. You will see people listed as Elite Warriors. You can treat them as fighters in leadership positions.

• TBMTheGodsofGlon'. A list of the Deities worshipped by the dwarfs of Glon' and two gods worshipped by local goblin/hobgoblin tribes that are also worshipped by many trolls. Finally, the gods worshipped by the humans of the District are discussed. A game manager could substitute his or her own sets of gods. The dwarf deities are respected and sometimes worshipped by the hobbits and humans of the nation. They are respected for their power by everyone else.

Powers lists for these deities are added to the Powers List as they are created. They are created when they are used in a campaign -- mine or someone else's.

Art: (From Wikimedia Commons: Tschiertschen (1350 meters). View of mountains from the hotel's balcony. Clouds Game. I, Dominicus Johannes Bergsma, the copyright holder, hereby publish it under the following license: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license7).