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Sundered has asked how people name things in their games and paracosms, and many have answered the summons with good and useable advice.I get quite weird about names - I...Linked by the ring
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The other day I wrote a bit about running my current game - one of the things I discussed very briefly was the introduction of controlled randomness into a storytelling space....
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CW: femicideThe capital is abuzz - rumour says that the poet Sapphon Delayer has murdered his wife, the poet Tinter Briar, in a drunken argument over royalties. Sapphon has...
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I am currently 8 sessions into running this campaign for some people on the glog server. It's been eye-opening running games again, and I thought I'd do some reflection on how...
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A quick post to note that my story collection The Attendants has entered a second printing, and is now once again available worldwide from Waterstones, the publisher Ma...
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Previously on mask relay: the lovely Vivanter. Next on mask relay: the lovely Weird Writer. Beholder MaskTin mask with ten eyes engraved into the forehead, each fashioned from...
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CW: medical brain injury. In the White City, the military pragmatists keep robust records of troop numbers and movements, materiel requirements, leadership postings, and areas...
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The Barony does not produce knights - the hereditary nobility of the petty kingdoms are expected to be capable administrators, planners, strategists, and logisticians - many of...
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This is a short post about the building of mechanical bodies using ball-and-sockets joints - a practice and obsession specific to some of my favourite artists in the world:...
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This post is dedicated to the lovely PRIME. Out in the western islands around the Lantern Berth there are many stories of the strange beings and monsters that make their homes...
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It has often been remarked that Barony is a horror setting, and this is mostly true. Most of my writing trends into horror eventually, and many of the most influential works...
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This post is dedicated to the lovely Loch. The Forest of Worms is popularly held to be depthless, and exploration from the ground has certainly born this out. Whence then,...
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When last we left our intrepid heroes, they had set up camp on the storm-locked island of Brythwin, clashed with and murdered some of the locals, and scouted and mapped the...
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This post dedicated to the lovely Zmia Garinia. A continuation from this post, this time focused solely on the Barony itself. Baronials farm in sustainable and out-of-focus...
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This post is dedicated to the lovely Purple. The Forest of Worms stretches off endlessly into the east at the border of cleared Baronial territory. It houses the worms...
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This post is dedicated to the lovely Semiurge. Tattooing in the Barony is not commonly practiced - the art is associated with the nomads from the south, and visible tattoos...
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A particular type of loot that you will only find in the Barony. The jacket is the most important part of Baronial dress and custom, and a properly tailored and fitted jacket...
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Many moons ago I wrote a class for the the Citizens of the terrible imperial metropole. This was in the very early days of the blog, and many things have since changed. I was...
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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...
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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,...Linked by the ring
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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...
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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...
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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...Linked by the ring
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...Linked by the ring
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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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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...
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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...