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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...Linked by the ring
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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...
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Merry Glogmas to one and all, and especially to Beloved Recipient ambzn of Ravenous Ambience. They posted a cool and tightly written robot class before I knew I had drawn them...
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Thanks to Vivanter for getting things properly going.What a year it has been. Mountains of good stuff has been produced, and these picks will by necessity be those that stuck...
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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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I have racked up quite a Joesky Tax bill recently. I also saw some drawings online that I really liked. One thing led to another. UPDATE: beloved Tony Macaroni has started a...
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Garamondia is one year old as of yesterday! There were a few hesitancy posts before this - even one or two that I like, and that ended up being important to what the blog would...
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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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This will be a short post dedicated to the memory of Alex, or Haeccity on Discord, who I found out late last night has passed away. Alex was a wonderful woman, an excellent...
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Some quick thoughts on monsters, sparked early in the morning by a reading of a post on another blog. The idea in that post is that the existence of monsters is evidence of...
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As all now know, Sam wrote Cataphracts, and then introduced voting and roles for non-commander players in Over/Under. I am still waiting for the write-ups about how that game...
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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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The Church's semi-secret canon teaches of the First Humans and their diminutive descendants - God's super weapon, its virus-form, hyper-specialised, dedicated only to its own...
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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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Some quick rules that I first wrote up for a one shot I almost ran for some colleagues at a West End theatre. The game was for like 20 people, so I decided to give four or five...
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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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After a similar list someone showed me recently, which I will link to here when I find it again it's this one! This list is incomplete, there are a few other settings I would...