Featured Campaign

Beldorn

There are campaigns that can last a few weeks and provide an interesting diversion for a play group, and there are campaigns that last longer. But then there are campaigns that have it—that real staying power that allows them to persist for years and still remain engaging. They weather many changes: player bases and rules systems alike, and keep going. Beldorn is such a campaign.

GMed by outrider, Beldorn has been an active campaign for over 20 years now, although admittedly it hasn’t been on Obsidian Portal as long! However, outrider and his group keep the campaign site meticulously updated, and have managed to do what many of us have not: chronicling a pre-existing, well established campaign on OP. Many new DMs are afraid to make a campaign site for themselves because they are afraid it would be impossible to start documenting a campaign in the middle of its life. Well, allow outrider and his group to emphatically disagree.

Beyond just having a tremendous legacy, it’s well organized, too, and the amount of DM dedication is truly impressive. Beldorn takes place in a homebrew campaign setting, and has a complex history spanning several ages—each age representing the time spent playing within the lifespan of one of D&D’s several editions. Although the campaign site is light on bells and whistles such as graphics and elaborate layouts, you would be hard pressed to call it anything but quality.