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Issue IX is a bit chaotic, but grand in scale. The centerpiece adventure, Torgan’s Tears by We hope you will find Issue IX of The Domesday Go0gleplex, looks like a real doozy for 6th to 9th level Book useful and to your liking. Get your copy here: PCs. “This dungeon just proves how much of an evil (http://www.knightsofthecrusade.com/domesday_9 or bugger I really am.” On the shorter and lower level http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/209471). side the last two installments of Mysteries Come in All credit goes to the contributing authors and artists. Threes are also included. Plus a third adventure is the result of six authors combining their talents to give life to the MadCartographer’s Farm House w/Secret Cave Contest. Please vote for your favorite room, prizes and brag’n rights are on the line (http://www.trolllord.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8 &t=16985). We also have a ship by the MadCartographer, goes well with one of the new classes. There are new monsters, three new/modified classes, four racial character classes by three authors, a 5e race, and new spells as well as the final installments of magic items. Some pre-gens, Victorious stuff, some humor, and a ton of great images and artwork! A pair of studies on wealth and Castles & Crusades; Old School Rules [2] experience to simplify our lives should work well with FORWARD the parallel mission by the Troll Lord’s in their upcoming release of their latest book for players We didn’t bother to ask again what you wanted in “Adventurer’s Back Pack” (similar to the AD&D Issue IX of The Domesday Book, so if we’re “Unearthed Arcana”). overlooking anything you want or need, please let us know directly (Treebore or Cuchlainkevin), or better still, contribute it or become an editor. We need new contributors and editors with their significant and thought provoking works to compliment the current contributor’s works for Issue X. WHAT’S NEXT? This editor is done. The next Domesday Book will need a new editorial staff for issues X, XI, & XII. Kevin Morton (Morty or Cuchlainkevin) will be heading up the staff, he’s going to need help, please step up. There is talk of making Issue X a “Best of Domesday” with an eye to updating and reformatting some, most, or all of Issues I through VI. The new Volume IV, Issue IX The Domesday Book Page 1 LYFENNDEL’S HORTICULTURE CORNER extremely dense and difficult to cut with normal axes as related to Todd “Go0gleplex” Pote © 2017 or saws. This dense wood is what gives the tree its by Lyfenndel Half-Hand, Half-Elf Ranger (retired). name and is used commonly by elf woodsmiths to make armor and weapons with a comparable strength It seems that all the adventurers these days are only to steel armor without the downside of iron poisoning after the gold found in some rotting undead’s tomb or for those of the fey races. dragon’s lair. They walk past a small king’s ransom It can also make very good roofing material that worth of valuable plants without a clue most of the is both highly fire resistant (+10 bonus to saves versus time. And they call themselves adventurers. HA! normal flame and +5 bonus versus magical flames) Back in my day we checked everything in case it might and lasts for decades before it significantly decays be worth a few coins. Heck, not even gazeboes were enough to need replacing. Unfortunately the wood has safe from closer scrutiny. Though we never attacked few artistic uses due to its bleak coloring and unlike any, unlike that one band of zanies I heard tell about. most wood it will not slay a vampire if a stake made Anyhow, I want to share some of my wilderness from it is driven through the creature’s undead heart. knowledge about some plants out there that could Ironwood trees are not long lived, dying off make the enterprising novice adventurer fairly well off within ten to fifteen years. It is usually these dead trees and without needing to venture into the guts of a goblin that are harvested for material use. A good twelve inch lair. Greenhorns ain’t near paranoid enough to be diameter ironwood tree can fetch up to one gp per foot. doing something like that right off the bat unless they Hmmm… speaking of metal-like trees, there is got a lot of back up, which had better include a lot of another found in the northern latitudes too. Not quite healing items. Pesky buggers are trap-happy in their as strong as Ironwood but still darned useful and, if lairs. Pesky buggers are almost as bad as kobolds - oh memory serves, more valuable to the right people. sorry. At my age it sort of gets easy to wander in your BRONZEWOOD TREE: Grows to about sixty thoughts. feet or so in height with a canopy of meandering But since I mentioned healing, let’s use that as a branches stretching out a couple dozen feet away from good start point for the first helpful plant on my list. the abrasively barked gray-green trunk. The leaves are SANO TREE: Grows in semi-tropical and palm-sized with three points and a deep green color tropical regions where there is plenty of moisture and providing a great degree of shelter to those beneath its shade. Its leaves are golden colored disks about two branches. The tree is found in groves in similar areas to four inches in diameter and grow in clusters of seven favored by oak and maple which may be some sort of leaves per stem. The bark of the tree is almost black, distant cousin along the vegetative family tree, though rough, and honey-combed with small pits. Within it is fairly uncommon in comparison. The tree grows these pits the light green sap of the tree beads up in slowly maybe one foot per year in height but the small pearl-sized drops. canopy may spread up to three feet. It is the sap beads that are the treasure of this plant Elven woodsmiths use this tree to make armor and the trees are usually well protected prizes of elves comparable to medium or lighter metal suits without or druids in the region. The sap beads can be added to the risk of iron poisoning for those of the fey races and boiling water or tea to make a beneficial drink that aids weapons as well as creating breathtaking works of art the body in healing and wards it against disease and with its rich colored wood. When polished, it takes on poison (+4 bonus to Heal/First Aid checks, +2 bonus the color of a golden bronze with distinctive patterns to saving throws versus disease and poison). that are never the same between pieces. Furniture, The sap is also used in many healing potions by doors, and even more mundane items fashioned from alchemists. Those in the market for Sano sap will this wood tend to go for much higher prices than their usually pay between five silver pieces and two gold counterparts made of more common materials. A pieces per bead depending on the region and demand. twelve inch diameter bronzewood tree can fetch up to This turns one of these rare trees into a small gold mine three gold pieces per food depending on its quality. for someone lucky enough to discover an unclaimed All this talk of gold reminds me of a literal gold tree somewhere. mine of a plant if you can find one due to its rarity and Speaking of the tropics, another tree that is worth its location. Though you have to be careful if you a bit of money and is a little more common is the… actually do find one, or you may find one because of IRONWOOD TREE: This tall tree prefers areas the dangerous beastie that typically lives near it. with lots of moisture and sun such as the boundaries Those vicious Aurumvorax feed on the fruit of this of swamps or clearings in tropical rainforests. Its bush and bears also love these berries. leaves are silvery colored and shaped like knife blades GOLD BERRY BUSH: Grows in alpine areas about six inches long. The tree grows very fast, of any clime, particularly if the earth has a high usually around a dozen feet or more per year until they mineral content. The five foot diameter, three foot tall hit their maximum height of around one hundred feet.

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