Introduction and Overview of the World of Trid
Trid is an amalgam of many disparate inspirations, including: Fiction Cornwell, Bernard: The Saxon Stories Hardy, Lyndon: Master of the Five Magics Howard, Robert E.: The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian; The Bloody Crown of Conan; The Conquering Sword of Conan Lewis, C.S.: Chronicles of Narnia Moorcock, Michael: The Elric Saga Tolkien, J. R. R.:…
The World of Trid began in 1989 as a setting for my B/X D&D game, mapped on a single piece of 4’x3′ butcher paper tacked the wall of my high school bedroom. The map has changed over the last three-and-a-half decades, but one constant has been its thematic adherence to the B/X implied setting. That…
Trid is an old world, scarred, healed, and scarred again through the rise and fall of empires. First were the Builders of the Before Times, whose disappearance allowed the reptile Ophidians to dominate the Dim Ages that followed. The elves, allied with men, toppled the Ophidian Empire to usher in the Age of Fable, defined…