A Review of the Role Playing Game Supplement Floodplains of Illamoor

Floodplains of Illamoor by Lady Blackstone is a role playing game supplement published by girls@computers for use with Cairn 2nd Edition.

The supplement is available as a 13 page Pay What You Want PDF from DriveThruRPG.

The first page has some background for the islands of the hexcrawl. Following this are two pages, which appear to be identical, each of which has a map of the area with a key, terrain rules, actions that can be done and weather.

Current Day explains that three expeditions have been sent to look for a lost sword and what they achieved.

Quest has where the characters begin to look for the sword.

Modifying Cairn for Hexcrawl explains how the rules were modified for this.

Wilderness Exploration Cycle has a five-step process for exploring.

Additional Notes has some notes on exploring.

Encounter by Terrain has d6 encounter tables for the different terrain types.

Region Descriptions has overviews of the different terrains.

Rumors has a d10 table of rumours.

Quest Outline has an overview of the quest.

About the Hex Key explains that the map only has main areas detailed.

Hex Key lists the various areas.

Main Keys list the main hexes.

Towns has some brief details on these and important NPCs, as well as rivers.

Elmsrest NPCs and Hopesfield NPCs has portraits of six NPCs in each town.

Quest Locales has details on the most important areas.

Floodplains of Illamoor in Review

The PDF lacks bookmarks and is long enough with enough different sections that these would have been useful. The text maintains a two-column format and appeared to be free of errors. As well as the map there are some black and white illustrations. Presentation is okay.

As mentioned in the supplement, most of the hex map hasn’t been detailed. In addition, those parts which have been detailed haven’t been covered in any great depth. In many ways, this is more of a skeletal structure for a hexcrawl that could be fleshed out a lot more by a GM; there’s potential, but it needs expanding. Floodplains of Illamoor can be found by clicking here.