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Xorian Wars Campaign Log

The Cimmeria world was created as a setting for my friends and me to play D&D in. We’ve run a few campaigns in the world, but the most influential in the development of Cimmeria was the campaign dubbed “Xorian Wars: Alliance and Rebellion.” The campaign was split with each player running two PCs, one for a high level Alliance party and one for a low level Rebellion party. We played from 2010 to 2018.

As we played I posted a campaign log on to the Order of the Stick Forums. Part of my motivation for creating this blog was to have a better resource guide for readers of the campaign log. If someone wanted to learn more about a city or character in the log they could hop over to gocorral.com and find their answer. The Cimmeria project on the blog has grown beyond that and now I’m planning on developing it into a published campaign setting. I still wanted to keep with that original goal though.

Part of the original goal of gocorral.com as a companion to the Order of the Stick campaign log was to eventually migrate the campaign log over to this website. Firstly, that gives me a backup of the campaign log in case the Order of the Stick Forums die. Secondly, I could go back through my old writing and fix up any errors. The original campaign log was posted as a first draft with little to no editing. Plenty of errors snuck in. Reposting here is a chance to clean up the wording and try to have a more consistent voice throughout the writing. The first draft started when I was a second year in college and ended after I’d obtained a Master’s degree and an infant.

Below is the archive of blog posts for each of the campaign log entries. All dates are in the year of 396BCE.

DatesAllianceRebellion
June 20th – June 29thXW 2/Alliance 1XW 1/Rebellion 1
June 30th – July 12thXW 3/Alliance 2
July 12th – July 14thXW 4/Alliance 3
July 15th – July 16thXW 5/Alliance 4
July 17th – July 19thXW 6/Alliance 5
July 19th – July 20thXW 8/Rebellion 2
July 20th – July 21stXW 7/Alliance 6XW 9/Rebellion 3
July 22ndXW 12/Alliance 7
July 23rd – July 24thXW 10/Rebellion 4
July 24th – July 25thXW 13/Alliance 8XW 11/ Rebellion 5
July 25th – July 28thXW 16/Alliance 9
July 28thXW 17/Alliance 10
XW 18/Alliance 11
July 29th – August 2ndXW 19/Combo 1
August 3rd – August 6thXW 20/Alliance 12
August 7th – August 8thXW 21/Alliance 13XW 14/Rebellion 6
August 9th – August 13thXW 15/Rebellion 7
August 14thXW 22/Alliance 14
August 14th – August 18thXW 23/Alliance 15
August 19th – August 21stXW 24/Alliance 16
August 22nd – August 24thXW 19/Combo 1
August 25th – August 26thXW 25/Alliance 17
August 27th – September 1stXW 26/Alliance 18
September 1st – September 3rdXW 27/Alliance 19
September 4th – September 5thXW 28/Combo 2
September 6th – September 7thXW 28/Combo 2
September 8thXW 29/Alliance 20XW 33/Rebellion 8
September 8th – September 9thXW 30/Alliance 21
September 9thXW 31/Alliance 22
XW 32/Alliance 23
September 10thXW 34/Alliance 24
September 10th – 12thXW 35/Alliance 25
September 12thXW 38/Rebellion 9
September 13th – September 14th
September 14th – September 15thXW 36/Alliance 26
September 16thXW 37/Alliance 27
XW 39/Alliance 28
September 17thXW 40/Alliance 29
XW 41/Alliance 30
September 18thXW 42/Alliance 31
September 18th – September 21stXW 43/Alliance 32
September 21stXW 44/Alliance 33
September 22nd – September 27thXW 45/Alliance 34
September 28th – October 1stXW 46/Alliance 35
October 2nd – October 3rdXW 47/Alliance 36
October 4thXW 58/Rebellion 10
October 4th – October 6thXW 48/Alliance 37
October 7thXW 49/Alliance 38
XW 50/Alliance 39
October 8thXW 51/Alliance 40
October 9th – October 10thXW 52/Alliance 41
October 11thXW 53/Alliance 42
October 12th – October 13thXW 54/Alliance 43
October 14thXW 59/Rebellion 11
October 15th – October 18thXW 55/Alliance 44
October 18th – October 19thXW 56/Alliance 45
October 19th – October 21stXW 57/Alliance 46
October 22nd – October 24thXW 61/Combo 3XW 60/Rebellion 12
October 25th
October 25thXW 61/Combo 3
October 26th – October 27thXW 62/Alliance 47XW 65/Rebellion 13
October 27th – November 3rdXW 63/Alliance 48
November 3rd – November 4thXW 64/Alliance 49
November 4th – November 5thXW 66/Alliance 50
November 5thXW 67/Alliance 51
XW 68/Alliance 52
November 5th – November 6thXW 69/Alliance 53
November 7thXW 70/Alliance 54
XW 71/Alliance 55
November 8th – November 10thXW 72/Alliance 56
November 10th – November 11thXW 73/Alliance 57
November 12th – November 13thXW 74/Alliance 58
November 13thXW 75/Alliance 59
XW 76/Alliance 60
November 13th – November 15thXW 77/Alliance 61
November 15th – November 17thXW 78/Alliance 62
November 18thXW 79/Alliance 63
November 19thXW 80/Alliance 64
November 19th – November 21stXW 81/Alliance 65
November 22nd – November 23rdXW 82/Alliance 66
November 23rdXW 83/Alliance 67
XW 84/Alliance 68
November 23rd – November 24thXW 85/Alliance 69
November 24th – November 25thXW 86/Alliance 70
November 26th – November 29thXW 87/Alliance 71
November 30thXW 86/Alliance 70
December 1stXW 87/Alliance 71
XW 88/Alliance 72
December 1st – December 15thXW 89/Alliance 73
December 15th – December 26thXW 90/Alliance 74
December 27th – December 30thXW 91/Alliance 75
December 30thXW 92/Alliance 76
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Welcome to the GoCorral website! I’m Isaac Shaker and this is a place for me to write about D&D and occasionally other topics. I host a podcast called Setting the Stage that interviews different DMs about their campaigns. I’m currently focused on completing the Cimmeria campaign setting and turning it into a book.

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71 – Aaron Ryan and Dissonance/The End – Setting the Stage, Campaigns for D&D and Other RPGs

I talked with Aaron Ryan about two of his book series, Dissonance and The End.Dissonance is a near future world where aliens have attacked, killing most humans and animals on Earth and driving humans into hiding underground. Humans finally develop technology to fight back and the war enters a new stage while the characters also struggle to determine the motivation for the alien invasion and nefarious actions of the government.The End is a Christian End Time series based loosely on the events described in Revelations. A man calling himself Nero has risen to rule over the world and he has outlawed Christianity. Robots called Guardians hunt Christians throughout the world, murdering them on the spot if they don't recant their faith. A resistance movement works in the shadows against Nero, but things aren't looking good for them.We talked about the basics of those settings along with how they could be adapted for RPG campaign settings. My main recommendations were Ashes Without Number, Spire, and Blades in the Dark.If you're interested in reading Aaron's books you can find them at most any bookstore or library. Both of the series are also being adapted into movies, but aren't publicly available yet. Aaron's website is https://authoraaronryan.com/ for the latest updates on his work. Next up for Aaron is the Talisman series that covers events within the "Aaronverse" in the decades between Dissonance and The End.Our website: https://gocorral.com/stsWant to be on the show? Fill out this survey: https://forms.gle/U11TbxtAReHFKbiVAJoin our Discord: https://discord.gg/Nngc2pQV6CSupport the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SettingtheStage Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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