I haven't posted to the blog in nearly a month, which is not usual for me, but it's because I've been building a big dungeon campaign and, for the first time in years (and...

Steamboat in a Storm, Turner, 1841Brythwin IslandPetty Queen Gloran is a pale, cruel-faced woman, about fifty years old, strong willed and sharp-minded. She wears pearls,...

 Fleshing out a region that is still weirdly un-fleshed-out. On the northern steppe you may encounter:Nomad HousesA 'house', 'family', or 'clan' - terms the nomads use...

 The Southern Nomads inhabit the steppe country that girds the end of the world. Beyond their territories lie blasted polar wastes: black rock, white snow, blue ice, and a sun...

 The last entry in the trilogy of vaguely scifi capsule games. CW: A whole heaping of utopian fascist aesthetics, as is appropriate to the genre. All images taken in situ at...

 I have finally run a game, breaking the long hiatus. It wasn't a Barony thing - it was DEGRADER, a small, tight, nasty, adversarial pbp wargame focused on sniper characters...

 Some more working notes and ideas hatched in conversation with the magnificent phloxserver, mostly with Grek and Archon. Following on from this, this, and this. Heartbeat and...

 A quick set of qualifiers and additional thoughts for this post (which in turn derived from this post - these form a loose trilogy), sadly not the full kit list and map, which...

 Forms a rough companion to this, obviously.Update: part two, part three, and the after action report. You are a DEGRADER - a sophisticated, tech-assisted, forward attack...

 It's been a while since I did any non Barony non short fiction posting, and this is another one of those ideas that's been swirling around in my head forever and ever. Some...