A Player’s Overview of Dark Domains – In Dark Domains players take on the uncommon role of being the bad guy in a fantasy setting. You seek neither glory nor honor. You don’t fight for the greater good. No, you work for yourself in a race against your mortality to become the Necromancer’s favorite so…
Dark Domains: A History, Chapter Eight – With the Blood Gold securely quarantined, two distinctly different forces were unleashed and would cause great unrest to all inside the mountain and without. Most noticeably in Zikkim was the almost sudden increase in harmony, productivity and creativity among the dwarves in the mountain. With the negative influences…
Dark Domains: A History, Chapter Seven – In the current age’s recent history, the management of Zikkim and the Blood Gold has been assigned to the dwarves that were asked to move into the mines. The first step was to seal away the Blood Gold behind massive barriers imbued with spells and runes to seal…
Dark Domains: A History, Chapter Six – The great mountains of Zikkim, Musterop and Fahderos had been a fixture in the Halvon Sana for as long as history could recall and probably far longer than that. When the age of metal began the three sister peaks became even more central to life and eventually the…
Dark Domains: A History, Chapter Five – The great mountain of Zikkim fueled the economy of the Kappan Empire and upon its fall, dwarves from the northern mountains were called in to clear out the mine and open it back up for production. Their first foray into the mine was repulsed by the foul and…
Dark Domains: A History, Chapter Four – At the time of the fall of the Kappan Empire, its tentacles had spread out across the entire world, and seemingly overnight, its foreign strongholds surrendered one-by-one. Some willingly joined the alliance against the Empire. Others had to be beaten down. Some were simply forgotten in the fall…
By Jonathan Dersch – It started with a farm themed deck builder. This game was too complicated for my first venture into game design. I was never able to fully playtest it. But that game had a fun idea where the growth of plants was represented by stacking cards that had seamless artwork. Basically, it…
Dark Domains: A History, Chapter Three – The fall of the Necromancer was only the beginning of the challenges facing the Halvon Sana. The entire remnants of the Kappan Empire stained the land with its malice and evil. Cities were festering dens of debauchery and crime. Old strongholds were now in ruin and home to…