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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...Linked by the ring
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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...Linked by the ring
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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 -...Linked by the ring
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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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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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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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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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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...Linked by the ring
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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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We have been talking Paladins in the glog server. There are lots of good, weird, setting specific ones, but the focus has been on the classical, roughly setting-agnostic...Linked by the ring
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Days that pass in succession, like lead boxes.NB: this 'class' would probably work better as a curse or a monster. I suspect that it wouldn't be much fun to play. You do not...Linked by the ring
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Along the Western edges of the Barony, inside the Forest of Worms, live a people culturally distinct from the Baronials. They have their own language, which they would tell you...Linked by the ring
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I wanted to write a high level dungeon for Barony. I also wanted to loosen up a bit and get back to the pulp roots of the setting. The soundtrack is Mica Levi's OST for Under...Linked by the ring
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Following on from this post.Some quick changes and adjustments to the initial rules:In hindsight, soldiers counting for 10 in combat seems overtuned - I think 5 is...Linked by the ring
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Assume Cataphracts rules for anything that isn't specified. Continued here. You are an ant commander, with all that that entails. You are winged, but will mostly be commanding...Linked by the ring
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Found this one lying around in the mists of ancient Discord chats and liked it enough to preserve it here. It's basically a Gilgamesh, and obviously not at all balanced to...Linked by the ring
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For the current bandwagon, and in reference to the setting that I've been noodling at for the last 9 months-ish. Glogheads have been doing nice designs for theirs but so it...Linked by the ring
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Onibaba, Kaneto Shindo, 1964The Beast of YeleninThe town of Yelenin sits secluded in the vast sea of reeds that makes up the delta of the Jabberwock. The people there fish,...Linked by the ring
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I recently redid the Damosel class for the GLOG, which is what I write in nowadays, but old hands will remember that the class was originally written years ago for Cloak and...
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The sea. There's only one in the Barony, so no one thinks to distinguish. They call it that because of the colours at the end of the day when the sun is sinking and dying and...Linked by the ring
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A followup to this post. You can also use this table to generate a company of noble house troops. -Kill Squads and deniable assassins are the norm. When territorial borders are...Linked by the ring
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There have been many interesting discussions around magic floating around the OSR spaces recently - a good opportunity to have a think about what it is, and what it means.I...Linked by the ring
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UPDATE: this has now been released here. Yesterday I put up a skeleton set of rules for a long-form, real time, vehicle and crew campaign.I was pretty happy with it, but...Linked by the ring
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Me and Loch recently put together a d666 for genning up monsters. In the flurry of activity that followed, I also ended up chatting briefly with Weird Writer about one and two...
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South of the Barony is a vast steppe country, inhabited by a culture of nomad riders who herd horses, dogs, and cattle. They live and travel in extended family clans, but each...Linked by the ring
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An elegant monster for a more civilised age.This is something like a formal exercise, inspired by Arnold K's Terophidian and some chat with Semiurge on Phlox's server.The...
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NOT CONTENT a collection of thoughts following a discussion around tone and procedures of play, with The Bad Doctor (of the truly excellent Was it Likely blog) on...Linked by the ring
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A quick follow up to this post I did a few days ago, about the material cultures of the Barony and White City. In the White City, by far the most ubiquitous clothing for...Linked by the ring
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I have a fascination with the linguistic description of works of art (ekphrastic writing), and architectural spaces - actually one of the early signs that my brain might...Linked by the ring
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The Unsightly BeastThe Beast roams the wild and untamed forests, howling, gurgling, nonsense, insanity. You always hear it before you see it, and this is when the panic starts...Linked by the ring
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The '2 Arbitrary Beings Who Are Exes' Table:Get along, still fucking, split was mutual. Hate each other, still fucking, split was mutual. Get along, not fucking, split was...
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The White City infamously welcomes both Angels and Demons into its citizenry. They live among the population, take part in the image games, and vote as human citizens vote -...Linked by the ring
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I've put together a more up-to-date version of the BARONY document, incorporating a lot of the stuff that has appeared on here over the last two months.You can read it here,...
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Gustave Doré, Les SaltimbanquesPLAYING YOUR ACADEMIC/ARTISTAcademics have contact with as many entities as they can speak pattern languages. Artists have a single entity, which...Linked by the ring
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There are tiny, vaguely magical things that live in the wild places of the Barony. People call them 'motes' or 'fairies', and the academics argue about what exactly they are....Linked by the ring
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There is a horror story that no one remembers any more.This is because it was told by a culture alien to the ones that currently inhabit the Barony, and because the human...Linked by the ring
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UPDATE: See the following for more detailed writeups, maps etc. Part One, The SurfaceSet Piece: The Mimic HellThe Dungeon: Levels 1 + 2Bestiary: The UnderworldThe Dungeon:...Linked by the ring
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Before the subclass itself, some notes on the gangs of the Baronial Capital.In this setting all humans, between the ages of about 16 - 24, undergo a period of what we would...Linked by the ring
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Some more notes towards a coherent setting document. The Wyrms of the SkyEveryone knows what dragons are. They fly, they breath fire. They are clever and ruthless. Knights...Linked by the ring