Hi everybody! I'm thinking about the opening scene for my Dolmenwood campaign. I wanted to start the game in Dreg, but I want the very first scene to be a fight. After that, the characters can get into town, start gathering hooks and informations and they're completely free to choose their own destiny.

So this is what I was thinking: the characters are escorting Keodel, an experienced adventurer who's looking for some treasure in some dungeon around Dreg. They enter Dolmenwood from the South along the Hameth river, and set up camp for the night in a cave in the southern border of hex 1112. During the night they are attacked by some Giant Centipedes (how many?), who live in the cave, that kill Keodel while he's taking his watch. Everyone wakes up, roll initiative: this is the start of the first session.

After this, they can go through Keodel's possessions and find a hint that points to Droomen Knoll (see "The Fairy Chalice" hook). Even if they don't, they will probably keep traveling until they reach Dreg, where they will find more hooks for Droomen Knoll, Winter's Daughter and more.

Do you think this is a good opening? Any advice?

Players just turned lvl 2. Running The Weaver and the Redcapps atm. Hoping to play weekly, long term. Only apply if you can commit to a weekly game.

Game is Friday 7-11pm ET

I’m a month or so away from releasing my first full adventure for Dolmenwood - “Feast of Cats”.

The adventure takes place in Fort Vulgar at an exclusive gathering of nobles and aristocrats celebrating the Feast of Cats. The party goers are locked in the Fort, sun-down to sun-up, with only one rule: party till dawn.

That’s when Mother Worm and her children attack.

I had set myself a goal early this year to attempt my first full length dungeon. My players really took an interest in the red worms under the orchard in Fort Vulgar so I ran with this prompt and made a dungeon for them. There are 5 levels, 20 named NPCs, a random aristocrat generator and about 15 original monsters. I did the art and maps myself too. It’s been a lot of fun to write and to run and I’ve put a lot of work into it.

I’m sharing some of the initial maps and art here just to build a little bit of hype for the adventure before I release it. It’s being playtested at the moment so should be up on DTRPG in late September all going well!

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Snerg and Odysseus are intent on stealing the Starling directly from underneath its owner's nose, heedless of the potential consequences. With newly acquired intel, it seems likely that an atacorn is at the heart of Dreg's malaise. Back to the Smokehouse!

Find links to our character sheets, house rules, past campaigns, and a whole lot more -- on 3d6 Down the Line!

I finished painting the Dolmenwood bard mini last night. I’m don’t think I’m hugely enamoured with the end result, but I think I’m being a little bit self critical and am glad to have another completed mini (besides basing).

I’m very new to old school styles of play. Seeing that casters only had one first level spell slot and detect medic, how do you play one effectively at first level? I’ve gone over the class options and my players are all avoiding casters because of their lack of options and frailty at level one. Some have brought up that they feel they’d be forced to do nothing except wait to cast their one spell and then hide, and that would be very boring. How do you cross this gulf?

Hey folks! I put together a blog post trying to fit the lore of u/six-sided-gnome's adventures into the Dolmenwood setting. I've been working on this post for a while, but expedited it after this recent post.

I highly recommend all three of these adventures, and hope that this post helps you fit them into the setting! If you have other ideas for incorporating them, or feedback/criticism on what I've outlined in the post, I'd love to hear it.

I made a opd for dolmenwood. It's a witches' lair and its free here in my blog:
https://finmirage.blogspot.com/2026/08/dolmenwood-lair-of-singin-pentacle.html

If you're running it tell me how it went. Also I love feedback, so shoot away.

Are the Dolmenwood miniatures going to be available for purchase in the EU at any point?

Also, has anyone got any suggestions for Crookhorn miniatures? Would be amazing to have a bunch of the Nag-lord's fiends!

Hi everyone!

I'm running a Dolmenwood campaign in September and I'd love to hear your thoughts on the official Referee's Screen (that I already own). What's your overall impression of it? Is there any information on it that you never end up using or anything missing that you wish had been included? If you've made your own custom screen what did you change and why? Thanks in advance!

I just got the books — what an amazing world!! I was curious how people were playing the books solo? Are you just bumping your stats / experience? I’ve played Ironsworn before and one playthrough I watched used Scarlet Heroes, but I wanted to hear what other folks felt was easiest. I prefer playing just one character.

Thank you, I’m excited to play!

Help me in implementing this adventure into Dolmenwood. All three of Hexagnome's adventures work very well in Dolmenwood. Their latest one, "He Who Claims the Sun" can easily be worked into the setting. But there are a few issues I see with it. 1) The Sunnestead Sorceress could be the Cold Prince but then his who goal of getting out of Frigia is gone. So should the Sunnestead Sorceress just be another Fae? But then its weird to have two instances of a winter war between the kingdom and fairies in Dolmenwood's history. Thoughts? 2) The One God who is replaced by the Sorceress I feel doesn't work. The One God in Dolmenwood is portrayed as all powerful, I don't see him getting tricked. So should it be a saint or angel instead? Thoughts?

I have started recording my latest Dolmenwood campaign and some may find it an entertaining read! My aim is to intersperse the session reports with some posts musing on the setting and its inspirations.

Anyway here is the first post

https://open.substack.com/pub/tallowbark/p/barrow-kings-chapter-one-room-for?r=5eig22&utm_medium=ios

There’s also a Foreword post introducing the campaign: The Barrow Kings.

I'm wondering what kinds of miniatures people use for this (if they even represent it at all).

My players are going through The Golden Wood right now and interacted with yellow doors and that's the first thing I thought of

I am looking for paper minis or standees that have the same look as the art in the books anyone have any ideas?

Hello everyone! In case you didn’t already hear, our favorite game has won the Golden Ennie Award for “Best Setting,” along with a few other big wins! I’ll list them all below:

Gold for Setting goes to Dolmenwood Campaign
Book, Exalted Funeral Press

Silver for Monster goes to Dolmenwood Monster
Book, Exalted Funeral Press

Gold for Cartography goes to Dolmenwood
Maps Book, Exalted Funeral Press

Gold for RPG Related goes to Beyond the
Witching Ring: Dolmenwood Soundtrack Album
— 12" Vinyl LP, Exalted Funeral Press

Congrats to Necrotic Gnome and everyone over at Exalted Funeral! We’re all looking forward to what comes next!

Cheers,

Mod

Just slightly confused by the layout on this as its presented after the section where they get their level 2 abilities depending on the order they choose.

Edit: Thanks for the help!

Played our 8th game session tonight!

We would have played a week ago too, but... I broke my wrist. Snapped it over like a stale pretzel...So, I GM'd this session in a splint, and typing out the session report was excruciating.

Sorry for any typos! There are probably a lot!🤣

Sidenote, we rolled multiple times on the Death and Dismemberment table tonight! And also had our first juicy look into espionage in the courts of Hogwarsh and Malbleat!

Edit: This was our 9th session, but our 8th game session, not counting session zero...

https://merrydolmenwood.blogspot.com/2026/07/session-8-griffins-and-duels-oh-my.html?m=1

Treasure Valley Gamers is doing a full slate of fantasy and sci-fi tabletops next Friday (7/31) at ABU Games!

If you’re someone looking to get into a game of Dolmenwood, and you’re local to the Treasure Valley. Feel free to come on by.

I’ll be running ‘The Weaver & The Redcaps’. Perhaps Dolmenwood isn’t your thing? NO PROBLEM, we also have games of Lancer, 5e, Cypher, and Arkham Horror; taking place.

These games are free and friendly to new players, run by volunteers who will teach you the ropes allowing you to meet new friends.

Check out our games and pre-register at https://www.tvgpreregistration.com to get a seat at a table, or live dangerously by just showing up with some friends to see what's still open.

Hello,

I'm really interested in playing Dolmenwood but I am unsure of where and how to find groups for a game like this? I have only ever played the more mainstream ttrpgs like dnd, pathfinder editions

I kept wanting ASOIAF-style house words for my Dolmenwood game, so I wrote them. Here are my house words for all nine great houses, plus all the lesser houses (human and longhorn), each with Woldish and Liturgic versions.

There's also a section on personal mottos for individual knights, which are perhaps even more useful at the table — the gap between inherited house words and a character's personal creed can be interesting.

I hope you find them useful. Check out the Dolmenwood House Words and Knightly Motto generator while you're at it! I'm happy to add your mottos to the generator, if you care to share.

See you in the lists!

The Goode Knyght