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.You are a DEGRADER - a sophisticated, tech-assisted, forward attack operative, trained and equipped to function with limited-to-none...

 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...

They can be seen during Rantine's highest summer, when the crimson sea smokes and boils, and when most of the population retreat to the shaded interiors of their homes and...

Why speak of traps? There are none of them here; no snares, no false appearances, no formal betrayals, and no hunter tracing the vector from the long barrel of the rifle that...

Two Stories About GiantsThe White City, that famed metropolis, has for its creation myth a story of ten giants and a human child, who built and administered the polis in its...

 A quick followup to this post, with some gear specific to the Third City. Glass Knives. Frightening weapons that leave really nasty internal injuries, mostly used by hoodlums...

I have written now and then about the Dreamlands - a sort of second campaign space in the Barony, where things are looser and more associative and susceptible to fairytale...

 Far to the north of the Imperial territory, jutting out from the crimson alkaline shore of the northern sea and near to the impassable boiling jungles at the world's terminus,...

 The Flare Children of the Imperial hinterlands wage a thankless, bloody, and unending insurgency against the soldiery of the White City. Most were born under occupation and...

 Trace a line in the shape of a human body. Generally they are life-sized or slightly larger, but there is no firm rule. Compose its interior space with whatever you wish -...

Yesterday I put together some preparatory diagrams for the Image Game, working through the basic 'loop' of play, in terms of the selection, synthesising, and deployment of...

I get asked about the Image Game more than any other thing in the setting, so thought I would have a go at making some diagrams mapping the process of play. Barony as a setting...

Once upon a time, I wrote about Returner Demons. Like the early Barony angels, I ended up not liking them much - they are too straight forward; their forwards movement through...

'Girl-Bravo, close your eyes.' A tall, broad-chested woman dressed in brightly-patinaed mail and plates; white and pale lilac. Her name is Centipede, and she is speaking to a...

 Of all the factions and polities in Barony, the White City has always been the hardest for me to draw and think about visually. Part of this is scale - the images for these...

It's been a while since I posted a top level view of Barony, the worldbuilding heartbreaker setting thing that has occupied the majority of my blogging attention this past...

I have been thinking about Muppets, and also other Henson puppets, Skekses, Gelflings, etc. Jenx from the purple server put up some fantastic muppet-goblin art recently, and I...

 CW: surgical horror. Thanks to PRIME, I have biomancy on the brain. A significant debt also to the very great Meal of Oshregaal. Whence they come, none know - their great...

I had a brief but productive chat in the Discord about the fantasy economies in Barony. It's not the kind of setting where these things are particularly worked through or...

The best to ever do it!I've been dealing with some nasty depression recently, and as a way to smooth off the worst edges made a decision to revisit one of my favourite...

Way back at the beginning of this blog I wrote about disease in the Barony. It is a bogey man, a sort of societal great enemy, and also ambiguously a divine extermination...

An update to yesterday's post on the Flare Children of the Imperial hinterland. I've long wondered how best to tackle writing about the scale of the Empire of the White City in...

The Empire of the White City is vast - many times larger than the territories of the Barony. What was once a complex ecosystem of states and peoples has been reduced over...

The Great Houses of the Southern Nomads.Every House is called a 'Great' House, no matter how large they actually are - this is basic courtesy. They are composed of extended...

The weather is much colder now than it was—I need to protect myself just to make my way across the city.I prepare by layering insulating, waterproof, and abrasion-resistant...

 See here for part one, detailing the Warbodies, Pilots-in-Dreaming, and Exterminator Orbs. Angel's Egg, Mamoru Oshii, 1985. Had the privilege of seeing this classic in cinema...

More fiction in progress, continuing from here. I don't know what this is yet, but I am enjoying working through it. - Ella Makes a DecisionIn her room on the other side of the...

Youth is the semblance of strength, love is the semblance of peace. Neither youth nor strength nor love nor peace can be granted to me [...] nor can I accept such a gift.-2666,...