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Return to Auromia

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  With one of the players from The Ruins of Auromia returning to Auckland briefly before moving overseas, we had a catch-up game where we revisited what those characters were up to now! We did, however, run out of time, so the end of this was extremely rushed. Two and a half years had passed since a group of adventurers defeated the arch-fairies who had pretended to be gods in Auromia, and Sorrel Acetosa had become the new genius loci of Auromia. In that time, Dova the cat-head had become first mate on the Coral Claw  under Capitano Giuseppe la Fenicottero (a flamingo-head wizard) sailing with the pirate fleet of Capitano Giovanni Bramare, a brass dragon. The three ships under his command fought against the imperialist bronze dragons of Staglia and the capitalist red dragons of Selenizia. Recently, a Staglian fleet had stopped at the island of Santa Severina and demanded its surrender, and then plundered the port when it was refused. The Coral Claw  and the other ships se...

Farewell to D&D

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 Given the recent changes to the Open Gaming License by Hasbro / Wizards of the Coast, we have decided to remove all Dungeons & Dragons references from Tirenia. I will be revising the world to remove any D&D-isms from it, and also to bring it in line with a Future Project that we are working on! Image: 'Aeneas Flees Burning Troy.'  Federico Barocci, 1593.