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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...
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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...
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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...Linked by the ring
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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...
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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...
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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...Linked by the ring
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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...Linked by the ring
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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...Linked by the ring
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...Linked by the ring
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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...
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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,...
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With a host of furious fancies,Whereof I am commander,With a burning spearAnd a horse of airTo the wilderness I wander.By a knight of ghosts and shadowsI summoned am to...
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This writeup comes via Prime's excellent Starter Box challenge. It's not really the setting primer for Barony - that better describes the last hexcrawl I wrote, A Great Airy...
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Grace from the Phloxserver recently wrote about some of the DM procedures that friends of theirs use while running games. It's a great piece of writing, and got me thinking...
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The temple sits on the northern shore of the island of Paravel. It is carved out of local sand-coloured stone, which glows red in the sunrise and sunset. None can remember why...
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After the feint, the strike! This dungeon came out a little more vanilla than I expected it to, I think because the initial idea that I was excited about (Cenobites haunting a...Linked by the ring
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This was going to be an entry into the great and storied Dungeon Duel I have going on with Loch. I realised half way through writing it that I didn't like it, mostly because I...
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There is a large and very beautiful old house, which would, a hundred years ago, have housed a wealthy family and their staff, but which is now rented out to whoever, whenever,...
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I've been thinking about the Islanders again, and slowly noodling through a hexcrawl set in that region. This is for that. There are plenty of regional contests of strength and...
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This one by way of Prime's challenge on discord. I've been wanting to try my hand at a hexcrawl for a while and haven't been able to grok it for whatever reason - I'm hoping...Linked by the ring
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Sappho, Charles Mengin (detail)Baronial society and culture is significantly concerned with the management and cultivation of social alliances. Peers of social standing are...
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Young angels do not dream. When they arrive in the present it is almost always with the dim memory of some implanted or assigned task or function, and, since the rest of their...
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Angel's Egg, 1985There are many stories of saints of the church who have been killed in battle and brought back to life by god's angels. Usually they go like this: the sainted...
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I have been writing in slow, vague circles around some kind of high school/teen fiction setting. This fits into that. I would like to have a think about some procedures, and...
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Now do one for fun! Normie church-murder setting agnostic version here - this is part of that same bandwagon, probably.PALADINSkills: clique survival, social awkwardness, a...