RPG Blog Carnival: Wasteland, Exploring the Bad Land of Mauvaisterre

This month's RPG Blog Carnival, hosted by Attronarch's Athenaeum, is all about Underworld and Wilderness Adventures.Wilderness & Underground adventures, 1986 styleSo I'll cover both. Up first, Wilderness Adventures.When we think about wilderness adventures in RPGs, particularly Dungeons & Dragons, we tend to think about vast forests, dangerous mountains, and strange lands far from civilization. But what happens when the wilderness is just outside your hometown? What if the places you have known your entire life turn out to be far more dangerous than you ever imagined?That is the idea behind the wilderness surrounding my fictional town of Jackson, Illinois, in 1986.Mauvaisterre: The Bad LandMauvaisterre has come up in conversation before, for instance in the piece on Old Annie, the Mauvaisterre Hag.The term is a rendering of the French mauvaise terre, or "bad earth" and "bad land." It is an actual place name in central Illinois for a creek and lake near Jacksonville, the town that is…

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