Highpass Major NPC: Sindren Gildamure

Sindren Gildamure © JRadbourne 2026

Welcome back to Wittering of a Worldbuilder! As always, I am spinning many a plates, trying to balance life and creativity, and running three D&D games to boot! Today, I thought I’d show you one of the NPCs from my current campaign in the small town of Highpass (Phandalin), which is essentially my rewrite or the classic 5E Lost Mines of Phandelver. This is a detailed NPC and so I like to ensure I have a more detailed character profile fleshed out which will fit nicely on two sides of A4. Meet Sindren Gildamure – My version of the classic Sildar Hallwinter. Enjoy!

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Heroes of the Borderlands: Background Hooks

Welcome back to Wittering of a Worldbuilder! I have recently purchased the new Dungeons and Dragons Starter Set: Heroes of the Borderlands, and having read it, have a few ideas for expanding upon it and tying it into the worldbuilding of my own world, Egaar. The set is based upon the old B2: Keep on the Borderlands module and I love the nod back to this old-school setting and the efforts taken to redesign the associated Caves of Chaos to better fit a game for new players and the sensibilities of the modern audience. However, in their efforts to do this, I feel that the designers have oversimplified the adventure and setting too much for my taste and so I am embarking on a quest of my own to tinker with the new set and share my thoughts and additions on here. I will be leaning into the old adventure module and various other third party materials and expansions I have found and bought, and will make recommendations as I go, citing the sources of my ideas. I have run the old module for a party of adventurers before and have had a lot of fun revisiting my notes from this recently and writing up a detailed playguide to better seat the location and people in my world. Stay tuned for further posts on this playguide.

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Rogue Backstories – Questions every Rogue should be able to answer

In order to better integrate Dungeons and Dragons into my world, I have been working on creating a bit of a guide for new players in my games to use when creating their characters. I was inspired by Anto over at Icarus Games on youtube to create a document template that would allow players to fill out a detailed backstory for their characters. Using his ideas as a base, I filled mine out with some additional sections and sets of useful prompt questions to help flesh out a player’s backstory. However, when I came to considering a player’s class, I realised that I wanted personalised, specific questions based on the class they had chosen and thus I created different Backstory templates based on the class selected. In today’s article, I explore the key questions that a Rogue in my world should know the answers to.

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Fantasy Short: She is the enemy of knowledge

As part of my continued desire to better my writing ability, I have taken to using writing prompts to inspire myself. I find them to be an excellent source of inspiration and they help to spark my imagination in ways I may never have experienced without them. Thus, I am able to create short scenes of fiction to help bring to life my ideas. What follows is but one of these shorts: She is the enemy of knowledge

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Weekly Wittering: Prompt #4

Welcome back to Wittering of a Worldbuilder. Today I give you another weekly wittering in which I will be taking on a worldbuilding prompt and attempting to use it to delve into different aspects of my world – Egaar. I will be freewriting a lot of my responses and they will hopefully provide me with new, useful information about Egaar and its people. Hope you enjoy!

Prompt #4 – Tell me about one of your secondary character’s back story

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