About the Telrhin website

About This Site...

Telrhin.com is the home of Christian Aldridge's frpg world of Telrhin.

Christian Aldridge is a web developer and technology director for an environmental NGO. He is married with two cats. He is also a reformed game designer who ran Hubris Games back in the day (Maelstrom Storytelling, Story Engine).

This site was lovingly hand-coded in php/mysql and all xhtml strict. Then I realized that was pain in the ass and Drupalized it.

I ditched the old design (Smashing Magazine's ColorPaper, which Lisa called it "very Pottery Barn") in favor of vanilla Bootstrap.

Surely There's More

I'm pleasantly surprised at the interest in Telrhin by people who have never gamed with me. I'm sorry to say that the rest of the site, the good stuff about the world and the many campaigns, is for my friends and players.

There's a little kernel to the right in the sidebar, but otherwise suffice to say Telrhin is a traditional fantasy world with elves and dwarves and lots of bar fights and unnecessary trysts. What makes it any good is not its originality so much as its rich and vibrant details that have evolved over the course of 40 years of living in it.

What About Hubris Games?

The gamer pages on the old site waxed on about Hubris Games and Maelstrom Storytelling. This site's about Telrhin, and although I did run a few adventures in Telrhin using Story Engine, the twain shall otherwise never meet.

Which isn't to say you can't find overlapping material. All my worlds seem to have a bar called Pox Crain, for instance, and Maelstrom even had a country named after Dryer Mob. But the 'Thousand Realms' of the Maelstrom world are a different beast, co-penned by me and Seth Lindberg (and great stuff from a few contributors as well).

I will admit, however, that recent development of Telrhin is borrowing some of the unfinished work from Maelstrom on the DreamWorld, like Brok Nine and the Edge of Waking, the Well of Dreams and of course the whole idea of Breeks and Reeves (I posted a chunk of unplublished work on Brok Nine to the blog).

Maelstrom's DreamWorld absorbed a lot of my time and was originally slated for inclusion in Dacartha Prime, further fleshing out the Maelstrom world and providing a context for Dacartha beyond its unique history in the Thousand Realms. Dacartha was to be a jump point not only for the Realms but the DreamWorld, a central hub for everything.

The DreamWorld work didn't make it into Dacartha Prime, so the plan was to include it in the second edition of the core book, which alas never made it to print. Hopefully the current publisher (Precis Intermedia) will birth it.

There's a little more info about Hubris Games on StudioZut's rpg page. But check out Precis Intermedia Games, the current publisher, if you're interested in the Maelstrom world and Story Engine. They even cross-pollinated Maelstrom with sci-fi: there's a Venthi Imperium in their space combat game Warcosm. Go Venth!