Hinterlands Town Plot Seeds and Adventure Hooks or Oddities (A Random 1d10 Table)

1. Town treasures a great big ball of twine as a tourist attraction
2. A frog eating festival
3. Smoke ring blowing contest -- magic is prohibited
4. Rodeo competition
5. Petition to start a library
6. A bounty on a trogdlyte
7. A major gambling tournament
8. Traveling theater show is in town
9. Traveling healer or witch doctor is holding a mass healing ceremony
10. Town celebrates a massive boulder in the center of the town square

Belkor -- A Black and White City Map

Here is a city I made with the Campaign Cartographer 3 using the city designer and a black and white style from the April 2010 issue of the Cartographer's Annual. I call the city Belkor and it is in my Rise of the Rune Lords campaign in the Hinterlands. It is on the Soggy River and along a tributary I added in the campaign called the Belkor river.

The Town of Belkor

My Version of the Hinterlands

Hi. I decided to try my hand at drawing an overland map in Campaign Cartographer 3 by replicating a map of the Hinterlands area from the Rise of the Rune Lords Adventure Path. Campaign Cartographer 3 has quite the learning curve. I followed a few videos and finally just sat down and started messing with program. I also would refer to the help manual and the community forms from time to time. The end result of my effort is posted below. It is my first attempt at an overland map and I like how I interpreted the Hinterlands. It is not an exact copy from the adventure path, and I admit there are a few missing areas, but I like what I was able to do. It was a lot of work and it takes time, patience and persistence to make a map in Campaign Cartographer 3. I like the program. Give it a try if you have the desire to use a top notch mapping program.

My version of the Hinterlands (version 2.5)

An Interpretation of the Hinterlands by Eddy Morrow

Adventure Seeds for the Hinterlands (A Random 1d8 Table)

1. Children are being stolen in the night from farmland villages
2. Cattle mutilation
3. Whole town left abandoned
4. Town that does not like strangers
5. Bat or vampire infested town
6. Religious community that sacrifices strangers
7. Town that bans books
8. Town citizens that worship fire

Even More Book Subjects (A Random 1d6 Table)

1. House building for gnomes
   
2. Bartender's guide to mixed drinks
   
3. Knife fighting skills and techniques
   
4. Fictional history of Sandpoint
   
5. Fictional tales of the Black Coat Adventuring Company
   
6. A guide to wildlife of the Hinterlands

Anomolies in the Hinterlands (A Random 1d6 Table)

1. Scorched earth farmlands
2. Perpetual burning forest
3. An obsidian obelisk in the middle of nowhere
4. A howling/screaming forest
5. A river of red water (blood or iron deposits or magic?)
6. A flaming hole in the ground

Ruins in the Hinterlands (A Random 1d6 Table)

1. A ghost town
2. a Troglodyte lair
3. An abandoned logging camp
4. Desolated farmland
5. Destroyed town along a river
6. An old neglected and forgotten graveyard