Welcome to Aldemere
onquest of Aldemere is a fantasy adventure I have been building for a while. You play a nobody from a farm at the edge of the Greywood. On the day the book opens, you are standing in the crowd at Crownhall while Ser Halvard Ashgrove, the greatest hero in the land, is knighted. Everything after that is your own road.
It plays like a book that fights back. You read a scene, make a choice, and a die settles what you cannot control. Fights are turn based. Your gear, your stats and your reputation change the odds. There is no reroll to save you.
Where it stands
Act I, the Greywood, is built and playable from the farm to the end of the act. Act II is taking shape: the wider realm, new places, new foes and a good deal of loot. Act III is the last act, where every road meets again.
The game already holds a hundred painted scenes, nearly forty foes, close to two hundred items and an archive of 248 entries that fills as you play. You can choose from eight faces and four classes.
What this chronicle is for
I will post here when something worth showing is done: a finished stretch of map, a new foe, a rule that changed. Screenshots and items will appear on the main page as they are ready. The story stays in the game. I would rather you find it by playing than by reading about it.
Tell me what you think
The page has an open ledger for suggestions. Ideas are welcome, from a foe you would like to meet to a rule that feels unfair. I read all of them. Nothing goes into the game unless I choose it, but a good idea has a real chance.