09-09-2026, 08:21 PM
Yes! The weird level of specificity feels very accurate.
Increasingly, I come to the conclusion that I think my preferred use-case for the kind of half-specific-toolbox book—not just Bastionland but also, say, Veins or Vaarn or Songbirds—is to pair it with another similar-ish adventure. Will Jobst, for example, has tweeted about running Mythic Bastionland with Valley of Flowers, an Arthurian-ish adventure, and that feels like a very plausible pairing. Use Valley as the main bulk of the adventure, but then salt in the myths and random table content and custom content from Bastionland in as needed, and use its knights and things for the player-facing rules. It'd be more work, but I could sooort of imagine doing the same thing with Vaarn and UVG, as another example.
Increasingly, I come to the conclusion that I think my preferred use-case for the kind of half-specific-toolbox book—not just Bastionland but also, say, Veins or Vaarn or Songbirds—is to pair it with another similar-ish adventure. Will Jobst, for example, has tweeted about running Mythic Bastionland with Valley of Flowers, an Arthurian-ish adventure, and that feels like a very plausible pairing. Use Valley as the main bulk of the adventure, but then salt in the myths and random table content and custom content from Bastionland in as needed, and use its knights and things for the player-facing rules. It'd be more work, but I could sooort of imagine doing the same thing with Vaarn and UVG, as another example.