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A jam submission

Spirit Callers of Shangri-LaView project page

A Land of Divine Wonder
Submitted by Xiaofang — 2 days, 6 hours before the deadline
Rated by 24 people so far
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Submitted

Sparse, focused, packed with gameable information for a unique and otherworldly location inspired by Asia.

Submitted

- Fantastic use of the cover also having the map!

- Really fun setting! A lot of usable information packed in there. 

- Diamond system is a nice way to indicate difficulty (could be used as a way to guide conversions to different systems). 

- Plenty of room to expand the whole hexcrawl, if that's something you ever wanted to do!

Submitted

Quite an interesting campaign setting with so much going on! It definitely feels mystical and worth of exploration. The text is evocative and the locations and challenges feel unique.

One note of feedback is that I don’t think this fits the 4x A5 page format of the jam, and would be quite hard to print in that size as the font is so tiny. The map also looks great, but I need to squint to see the black lines if I have each page scaled to print size.

Submitted

Wow! Love it! You've achieved an entire setting with interesting locations and encounters all in the 4 pages limit, impressive!

Submitted

Love the setting and awesome map. The tables are super fun.  Great job!

Submitted (1 edit)

I agree with a lot of the points others have made but, wow, what a cover!

Submitted

Great points of interest, well written and with a lot of variance. I really liked the random tables.

Submitted

Interesting approach with the difficulty system! I feel like a 3 star rating system might be more actionable but I appreciate the thought you've put into it. Very cool themes as well.

Submitted

After reading this piece, I liked this! 1. the writing is really good and has a believable worldbuilding that is both beautiful and terrifying. 2. I like theres a system agnostic difficulty sytem great for solo or gms to get the idea to understand what difficulty you have to complete. 3. Nice art on the creature and the map itself. 

Submitted

Very evocative and filled with so many cool ideas. I absolutely love the difficulty system and will look to steal for some of my work!

Submitted

What a delightfully beautiful yet terrible place! I can totally see a campaign there: a little plot and a lot of exploration.

Submitted

Impeccable design, evocative writing, beautiful art, and theme is on point. The complete package.

Submitted

Very cool, I love the adventurous feel and really like the leopardkin. Feels mystic and magical. Also using the map in and as the cover was such a good idea! 

Submitted

The overall presentation is just great. I'd love to run this in the near future!

Submitted

Very Cool! I wish I had more to say other than this was tight!

Submitted

Love the concept! This is a fantastic setting and I'm seriously thinking about using this in my upcoming D&D sessions. I love the incorporation of Tibetan art and mythology. The Valley of Anchorites is great in particular. I really like the Tibetan demon biting the moon. 

Some Quibbles:

Shangri-La is in the grip of no grand war or apocalyptic disaster.  Awkward phrasing, maybe, "

Shangri-La is not in the grip of grand war or apocalyptic disaster. "

I'm unclear if the diamond symbols next to the location names have a mechanical impact. I understand that this indicates the area is more dangerous or less dangerous, but I'm not sure if that means we should roll for encounters more frequently or something like that. 

The icon art on the map feels a little underdeveloped to me.  Same with the pixelated yellow around the demon.

I'd love to see additional art incorporated the way you did with the deer on the last page. 

Great work!

Submitted

There's a lot to play with here, and the themes are strong--from the writing and the locations to the amazing cover. Really well done.

Submitted

Feels like there's an entire planet in this module! Also, the diamond difficulty system really pulls a lot of weight in this, I wish I had thought of doing something like this before. Clever use of a cover too, just some really good stuff here. 

8 Jadeite Ascendants out of 8