Verwood is the starting continent for my current sandbox campaign. Players could easily spend the entire campaign here, if they wanted to, although there’s certainly plenty more of the world to explore.
This map isn’t a literal depiction of the continent; it depicts no roads and only the most significant landmarks and settlements. The idea is that if you asked a relatively knowledgeable resident of Verwood to think of the strangest, most unique places in the continent, this would be their mental map of where one would find such places.
A lot of the locations on here come from my favorite OSR adventures- Stonehell Dungeon, the Caverns of Thracia, Magical Industrial Revolution’s city of Endon and the Slumbering Ursine Dunes are among the most significant inclusions (though I changed many of their names to fit my world better). Here are a few of my own original landmarks that I find particularly exciting- I’ll probably post some more gameable writeups of adventure locations and dungeons eventually as well.
One fun setting detail is that High Elves in this world look like six-foot-tall bright-purple or gray-skinned Yoda-people with giant pointy droopy ears, baldheaded but with lots of curly black body hair. They have three empty eye sockets, and they hold magical eye-orbs or magically levitate them near their heads in order to see. The reason they look this way is that when the game first started, one of my players (playing a high elf wizard) asked her boyfriend to draw a picture of her character based on a vague description and he drew a simple sketch of the weird creature described above. Obviously I adore it and immediately ruled that all High Elves look that way. They still look down on all other creatures because they consider themselves the most beatiful.
