YALOON
A downloadable game
YALOON is a Leve 1-5 sandbox. This module contains:
- 11 dungeons, quests, and other calls to adventure
- 5 factions
- 8 printable magic item cards
- 6 sheets of printable minis (70 minis total)
- Fell Creatures & Vomitous Foes: a bestiary containing stats for all creatures and NPCs encountered in this module
When Over-Queen Bhupati still lived, support from the central government allowed for roads to be constructed, maintained, and patrolled. Raw resources were drawn out of Yaloon and exotic trade goods flowed in. New settlements turned temperate rainforests into productive farmland. And Yaloon thrived.
But that was many turns of the Wheel ago.
Today the land between the Saffron Canal and the Khazad Kush is a backwater wilderness, only linked to the self-governing polity of Yaloon Prefecture on crumbling maps. Old alliances with the indigenous elves are forgotten. The dwarves - long struggling in this region - seek new homelands elsewhere. Goblins multiply in their dank burrows.
Into this land flee the losing side of a peasant rebellion, pursued by the determined forces of the tyrannical Rajik Basu - Lord of Yaloon. The rebels are agile and adaptable. The rajik’s myrmidon warriors are efficient and well-trained but survive at the end of a tenuous supply chain.
Meanwhile, other factions and powers in the region continue pursuing their own goals.
This zine was created thanks to the generous backers of the HOME: a Light in The Darkness Kickstarter. HOME is a GM toolkit for building a small hex map full of opportunities for adventure. YALOON was written using that toolkit.
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $8 USD. You will get access to the following files:
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Community Copies
Free copies for those who need them. Feel free to grab one!
Every purchase will add an additional copy to the Community Copies bank.
Development log
- Discord ServerFeb 28, 2025
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hi there, just wondering if any community copies are available. Thank you
Damn. I just ended up paying $8 for this, when I already paid $10 on your Tesladyne account for the same thing. I also paid $5 for Glaive 3.0 when I already own the first version on that account.
Kinda confusing, not gonna lie.
I'm sorry about that. I don't manage the Tesladyne account -it must have been mislabeled over there. I've fixed it. Drop Brian a line over there and I bet he can get you your $2 back
I checked the Glaive files as well -they were all 3.0 as of this post. You should be able to download them without an issue. I will figure out how to refund the $5 from here
EDIT: I jut need your email address I can handle it on both pages
I guess I don't understand...you and another person run two different itch.io accounts, but both sell the same products?
How does that not lead to issues like this more often? Do you both split the income, or did I buy separate "copies" of Glaive and Yaloon from each of you?
I also was thinking more that I could get the entire $8 back for this purchase, since I already paid $10 for the same book over on the other page a long time ago. But does it work that way?
I do take partial responsibility for buying the titles twice. But time has passed, a link brought me to these, and I honestly thought I'd already seen them but just hadn't purchased them as I'd thought I had.
Oh, you purchased Yaloon a second time? No problem. I still need your email to look up the transaction.
The Lonely Adventurer page is my personal Itch page. The Tesladyne page is my company's page - started a few years later and run by my creative partner.
For contractual reasons I am required to post my work in both places.
As confusing as it may seem, this is actually the first time something like this has happened.
Anyhoo, give me that sweet sweet email address so I can sort this out for you. :)
gottgen@gmail.com
Thanks!
I submitted the refund request to Itch.io. I don't know how long those take to process but if you haven't received it by this time next week let me know
I'm a bit confused on HD.
1 Hd = 5 HP, right?
But sometimes the math doesn't add up. Like 2HD+1 won't be 11. What am I missing?
So sorry I missed this question!
Technically 1HD = 1d8. But I say 5 just to get a high average.
+1 or +2 tacked on to the number of HD is honestly something I’ve never figured out on old school games. Does the monster get a flat +2 hp bonus, or +2 hp per HD? I’d say it’s up to the GM. A dial you can turn on encounter difficulty
It also affects to hit bonus. Google THAC0 monsters and OSE. A monster with 3HD has a +2 attack bonus. But a monster with 3+1HD has a +3 attack bonus.
When I was a kid, we just added the HP bonus once. Thus, 3HD +1 would be 3d8+1.
I feel like this is the way the rules intended it but at the same time it feels kind of stupid to me lol. Like, what’s the point?
What I mean is - the likelihood that 1 extra hp will matter is very low. But 3 hp (or 4, or 5 etc.) is the difference between surviving a hit from a longsword or not.
I dunno - it’s not important at the end ofc the day, but dang, Old D&D - why you so nebulous all the time lol
I think you are right, but back then lots of d4 for their HD magic-users would beg to differ about the importance of one extra HP. For monsters, most modules literally rolled the HP for each individual, though I think some of the modern OSR variants still do this. Sometimes the BBE would be shockingly weak thanks to RNG. The 5e practice of taking the mean of all the HD for monsters or PCs was unknown.
Very true. I was definitely looking at it through the lens of how I use the old monster stats today. I just assume 5hp her HD.
Usually not my neck of the woods, but this is lovely stuff! Is the header image on https://lonely-adventurer.itch.io/ connected to Yaloon? Did you post the image in full somewhere?
Yaloon exists in a corner of that fantasy O'Neill Cylinder I used as a header image. :) It's my home game's campaign world.
I've posted it to Discord and Twitter in the past.