Agents of the White Council – Prologue

Eleanor of Dol Amroth sat uneasily on her saddle, watching as the forest canopy passed above her. The little light that filtered through the thick screen of leaves and branches above her was green-tinted, bathing the forest floor in an otherworldly glow. The shadows between the trees could hide anything, and she felt the back …

Agents of the White Council – Core Set Deckbuilding

The last article was pushing 2000 words before I even started. Rather than create a 4000 word monstrosity of an article that most of my readers would stop reading halfway through, I decided to split the post. The deckbuilding portion of the post is now ready for your consumption. We'll start with our primary deck, …

Agents of the White Council – Core Set Quests

The blistering pace of updates to this blog is likely to slow down in the near future. As we move away from simple analysis and deckbuilding posts, and towards original fiction, I expect things to slow down naturally. Writing fiction has always come more slowly for me, and that will be on top of needing …

Agents of the White Council – The Lady of Gondor

You might have noticed this on my last post, but I finally came up with a name for the grand narrative. Agents of the White Council. I kind of like the ring it has. Maybe it's a little on the nose, but it's here to stay, so we might as well get used to it. …

Agents of the White Council – Ground Rules

So, let's get into the gritty details of a grand campaign. The whole point of this project is to use the various quests in this game to tell an interconnected story. Unlike a traditional storytelling project, where all of the plot twists and other surprises can be worked out well in advance, this type of …

The Journey Begins

Thanks for joining me here at The White Tower! I hope you will enjoy reading this blog as much as I've enjoyed writing it. Since we're both new around these parts, I might as well explain a little bit about this blog, what I'll be doing here over the next months (and maybe years), and …