Campaign of the Month: March 2012
Shattered Solstice
The world of Terra was built by the dragons, the first gods. Yet when the dragons grew too haughty they were overthrown by their own servants; their creations buried beneath the sands of a new world…
Solstice was a fantasy campaign setting conceived in 2003 and originally designed for use with Dungeons and Dragons and the d20 system. It was a world born from the idea that the settings of the past had wandered too far from what made Dungeons and Dragons what it was. Solstice was not about steam technology and dinosaurs; it was not about endless deserts and consuming magics; it was not about all powerful wizards and endless pantheons. Solstice was about, quite simply, dungeons and dragons.
Five campaigns and a decade later Solstice has moved beyond its founding pillars. Though the core Dungeons and Dragons campaign setting still lives as the Age of Stone, each campaign has pushed this world in unexpected directions. And with the conclusion of Solstice IV, Terra has expanded to include both the Age of Tears, a setting compatible with Privateer Press’ Iron Kingdoms, and the Age of Whispers, a setting compatible with Monte Cook’s Numenera.
Over the course of ten years Solstice has shown the potential to become something much deeper. Whether or not it will continue to evolve for another decade remains to be seen, but the dawn of the Shattered Solstice has come.
Shattered Solstice Comments
Congratulations on COM! I am very impressed with the clean presentation and marvelous story.
Well done.
I just followed one of the guides from The Cartographer’s Guild. Well, it might have been a little more complicated than that, but most of the process was worked out by people far better with Gimp than I.
You’re a GM after my own heart – a simplistic wiki with some nice, basic features and a fantastic story. Well done, sir. One question: how did you build the map?
Thanks for the interview, Gilheru. Nice site with some excellent features. Your indexing must be one of the best systems I have seen on OP – very easy to find things and follow through on the wiki. And I like the navigation tag symbols on the left!
Congrats on the COTM! I also really like the deity section!
Great campaign and congratulations on receiving COTM. I look forward to delving into your richly detailed and original campaign world.
Congrats on the COTM. I had missed this campaign and after looking it over like what I see. I am looking forward to seeing what else I shall discover in your pages.
Solstice is a the proof you’re a talented man with an unfailingly good taste ! Very inspiring OP page !
-Mathieu
I appreciate the kind words. I’ve put the code for the side bar in the forums if anyone wants it. I just took what was already floating around and made it my own. The only think I ask is that you don’t hotlink the tab images. I am hosting those myself, not Obsidian Portal, so I would appreciate if you didn’t link them from my domain.
Layout and navigation are excellent. There is also obviously a massive tome of historical context. I loved reading through the descriptions of the Deities. Cool stuff!
^agree. I particularly like the formatting of the main wiki page and the formatting for the individual pages. Not to mention the story looks sound as well! Nicely done, keep up the good work!
Love the layout and the nav bar is super clever!