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Mercs: The Black Guard Company

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The first Play by Email ("PBEM") campaign that I created and ran was "Mercs."  In 1996 the tabletop game I had been running four the past three years in college was shifting from a primarily  AD&D   Forgotten Realms  campaign to a White Wolf  World of Darkness   Storyteller campaign, and we also were meeting less often. Those truly epic tabletop  AD&D  campaigns had included  James B ('Helix'), Brian H. ('Hathron'), Chad ('Antontio'), and Stephen ('Marik') amongst others who never joined the PBEM games. (The adventures of that party, the Oathbound, will be told elsewhere on this blog).  The world wide web and email were just becoming common in the academic world and I had dipped my toe into play by email games as a player - unsuccessfully, I clashed right away with the DM. I realized from that,  however, that PBEM could provide the sort of gaming experience I've always craved: a living, breathing, involved world that ...
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Welcome to Lúmequentalë Númenostan!

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Welcome to  Lúmequentalë Númenostan , a grandiose title for a probably rather banal blog.  Lúmequentalë Númenostan  merely (sort of) means 'Westermeyer History‘ in J.R.R. Tolkien‘s elven tongue, Quenya.  I intend to use this blog to distribute my various fantasy roleplaying articles and works, connected to my long time Dungeons and Dragons campaigns.  Lúmequentalë Númenostan  is properly the title of the campaign history of those campaigns but this blog will also contains links to my various ongoing campaigns as well as articles that I have published online over the years on the Forgotten Realms and Spelljammer . My Spelljammer work, especially, was originally published on the Beyond the Moons  site but it is difficult to link there these days on many social media platforms, as it is an http site. So I plan to republish those articles here.  You can download the pdf for the original  Lúmequentalë Númenostan campaign history   here ....
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