A World Built With Care
Smoke hangs over the streets of Lankhmar, City of the Black Toga. Thieves slip through the alleys, the mummified Gods of Lankhmar stir in their temple, and somewhere in the shadows, something the world believed extinct for millennia has begun to hatch.Fritz Leiber gave us Nehwon in his tales of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Our DM, ptahsekhet, has kept it alive at the table since 1985, and what he has built on it is remarkable.
Rather than replace Leiber's canon, he folded it in. Nehwon became one continent of M'Brell, so four decades of stories could stand beside brand new ground. Magic is rare enough to turn heads, and a full timeline spans thousands of years. He even built a working Lankhmarian language, with a translator tool of over 20,000 entries.
And M'Brell deserves its own bow. It is his world: a small planet circling a dim orange star called Sonne, watched by two moons, the bold and ever present Traveler and the Dark Lady, who seldom appears and always brings an omen. Nehwon is only one of its lands. The rest, and every story Leiber never told, are his own creation, still being written.
A Table That Writes
The players match his effort. The party known as the Heretic (Eloryn, Dorian, Lilly, Cathlynn, and our newest arrival, Iri) treats roleplay as a craft. Sessions are written up as reports, players put their characters' inner thoughts on the page, and the DM hands out report cards that reward restraint and quiet moments as much as big swings. Some of the best scenes happen without a single die rolled.Come Explore
Love sword and sorcery, scheming kings, and a touch of cosmic dread? Come walk the streets of Lankhmar with us.Enter Nehwon
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