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Layout of the Big Rubble

Posted on June 21, 2025

The Big Rubble is about 15 square km or 1500 hectares. That’s basically the Upper Westside of Manhattan or little bigger than Kensington plus Chelsea in London. Another way of thinking about…

Farming in the Big Rubble

Posted on April 23, 2025

There are some 1600 humans in the Big Rubble, with 500 in the Real City, 300 in Zebra Fort, and 300 in Mani’s Fort. The remaining 500 are scattered around Zebraside, the…

Orlanth Initiation in New Pavis 1623

Posted on March 7, 2025

In New Pavis, if are a young adult man of the Orlanth cult (note that includes women of the Vinga subcult), you have already experienced danger and peril. In 1623, during the…

Sunset in the Big Rubble

Posted on January 25, 2025

Sunset in the Big Rubble is a fearful time. Long shadows fall over the ruins. Although there are some faint lights of lamps and fires in the Real City, Mani’s Fort, and…

Cults of Pavis

Posted on December 31, 2024

This is an overview of the cults present in New Pavis and the Big Rubble, and the local environs (mainly Pavis County). Don’t bother over interpreting the categories or the number of…

Trolltown in The Big Rubble II

Posted on December 14, 2024

We often forget that the Big Rubble can actually be viewed as a troll city with a human minority. First some comparisons of size. New Pavis is 28 hectares, and I think…

The Garden (Big Rubble)

Posted on November 19, 2024

Around 750 years ago, bands of aldryami came from the Redwood Forest in Shadows Dance to the new city of Pavis and created the Garden. They planted pines, cedar, black oak, manzanitas,…

Sartarites and Dwarves

Posted on November 16, 2024

The two groups of dwarves that Sartarites are most likely to be familiar with are: Dwarf Mine. This very large dwarf community rarely interacts with humans outside of Dwarf Stronghold Inn and Goranthal….

New Pavis and the Big Rubble Adventures

Posted on September 23, 2024

A few thoughts about New Pavis and the Big Rubble when we think about them within the context of an RQ game or campaign. The Big Rubble is where we go to…

Population demographics of New Pavis and the Big Rubble

Posted on August 10, 2024

If we look at Pavis and the Big Rubble as a whole, there are some 7400 humans, 2500 trolls, 1000 aldryami, 200 dwarfs, 150 dragonewts, and 750 other sentients (including broo &…

The building of Pavis 830 ST

Posted on July 15, 2024

Old Pavis was built of stone, not adobe or brick. Let’s start with this passage about the building of Pavis: After the Too Tall Battle, the Faceless Statue collapsed, all magical energies…

The Lunar Religion in post-Liberation Prax

Posted on June 30, 2024

Following the liberation of Pavis by the White Bull, the Lunar Army was forced out of Prax, and all arrangements those dependent on the presence of the Lunar Army collapsed. The governor…

Badside – Outside Pavis & the Big Rubble

Posted on June 29, 2024

About 1490 there was a new settlement started outside of the walls of Pavis. It was called the City of Thieves (now called Badside), and it was permitted both as a favour…

Zebra Fort

Posted on June 21, 2024

Zebra Fort is Argrath’s main stronghold in the Big Rubble. It’s only about 2 kilometers away from the People’s Gate, and you can probably run there in about 15 minutes or so….

The Kaleidoscopic Big Rubble

Posted on June 20, 2024

So putting it all together, the Big Rubble is kaleidoscopic. We have Sartarites and Sun Domers adventuring in a Big Rubble filled with Black Fang cultists, trolls, and Chaos. We have elves,…

Trolls of The Big Rubble

Posted on June 20, 2024

There are some 2500 trolls in the Big Rubble, making them the single most numerous community. There are some 500 adult dark trolls, over 1600 trollkin, and at least 100 great trolls,…

The Garden, Big Rubble

Posted on June 17, 2024

The elves of the Big Rubble are among the most human-oriented elves I know of. There’s only about 200 elves in the Garden, the other 800 Aldryami consist of a few non-combatant…

The Rise of Chaos and Other Gods in the Big Rubble

Posted on June 16, 2024

During the Troll Occupation (1237-1539), many of the human inhabitants of the Big Rubble turned to some very unpleasant spirits and gods in order to survive. Black Fang The best known is,…

Broo In The Big Rubble

Posted on June 14, 2024

Broo are the most numerous chaotic race in the Big Rubble numbering some 300. Broo are most commonly found in the Big Grazing and the Huntlands. The nastiest broo are said to…

The Dragonewt Temple in The Rubble

Posted on June 9, 2024

In 1539, the unusual event called the Dragonewts’ Dream took place. At that time all of the living dragonewts of Dragon Pass crawled into their ancient cities, sealed and booby trapped them,…

Underground in the Big Rubble

Posted on June 9, 2024

The Underground City in the Big Rubble is largely networks of cellars connected to other cellars. For example, the following shows a network of six cellars connected together through a central cellar….

Levels of The Big Rubble

Posted on June 9, 2024

SPOILERS AHEAD! If we think about the Big Rubble as a sprawling collection of dungeons, it has four basic levels: From a design and play perspective, the Big Rubble lets you introduce…

Notes on The Black Fang Brotherhood

Posted on June 1, 2024

The Black Fang Brotherhood was formed around 1450 in the Big Rubble, when a human shaman met Black Fang in the Spirit World. Black Fang was a legendary bandit of approximately 100…

The Cult of Pavis I

Posted on May 31, 2024

The Pavis cult is really quite small, likely less than 2000 initiates in the world. Maybe 300 reside in New Pavis, 500 or so reside in the Big Rubble. As many as…

Manside, Big Rubble

Posted on May 31, 2024

Let’s think about Manside in the Big Rubble for a few minutes. About 1,500 humans live in the Big Rubble. Of that number, about 500 live in the Real City, about 350…

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