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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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UPDATE: this has now been released here. This post lit a fire in my brain.I have always wanted to play a real-time logistics and operations game - having communications,...
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Bad things happened in the Old Capital. This is generally known. The men and women who witnessed it, whatever it was, were wiped from history, and the Barony is, in many ways,...
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Lightning quick post after some riffing in the GLOG Discord. Roadfreak is a Vayra term I think?Eloise Celeriac, gambler. Wants your money but not a thief, just very good at all...
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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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In the far, far south, beyond the steppe and into the frozen dead archipelago, there are stunted, white-furred giants who live on seals, and on human meat when they can find...
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Everyone should watch Buñuel's The Exterminating Angel.A Brain Ghost is a strange thing, and not well understood. The appear to be the remnants of psychic trauma, which cohere...
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The original Barony class document included a Barbarian, which I thought was a fun twist on dnd norms - it was modelled after a steppe nomad horse archer, and not a frothing...
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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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I was very silly the other day and made a post that increased the size of my (until now) slowly expanding little paracosm by a factor of like 6. Beware ye who engage in the...
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Turner, A Scarlet Sunset, c. 1830. North of the Barony, beyond the forests, and razor walls of impassable mountains, is the Empire of the White City. The City itself sits on a...
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The Barony and its King and Queen-ships have been built over many centuries on a vast promontory of fertile land cleared for farming. This whole territory was once dense...
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The Baronial Agents They do not control a monopoly on violence, and are popularly described as simply the largest and best-equipped gang in the city. The Agents patrol the city...
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A sword charm is a small, painted, wooden icon that can be fastened to a weapon with cord or thin chain. They used to be produced exclusively by the church and were considered...
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This is a post with an odd pedigree. I originally dreamt up this ruleset when I was 16 or 17, during one of Melbourne's summers, and it has a hallucinatory and incoherent...Linked by the ring
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I wanted to put together a repository some of the visual referencing I've been using in my blog posts, collected over the last few months, so that it's all in one place.GENERAL...
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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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Barony uses some bespoke morale rules, currently written up as follows: PC Morale Separate from hireling and enemy morale, which should be rolled as normal. In the Dungeon, you...
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Every human PC in Barony has a drug pouch in addition to whatever else they are carrying - you start with one, and if you lose it you can get it replaced cheaply. This is an...
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I have been informed that my last post put me in debt to Joesky, so have another, ya filthy animals.Hatesteel Blades (thank you Josie for the name)Infamously razor sharp,...
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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 Dreamlands have been on my mind recently. Nightmares are native to the Dreamlands, but no one knows what causes them. There are many superstitions around how to avoid or...
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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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As is my wont, I have been thinking about the difference between the cultures of the Barony and the White City. As will no doubt be clear by now to readers of the blog, these...
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A quick, late-night exercise, conducted in rough call + response with Sundered World on Phlox's discord. All magical sheathes give any sword drawn from them +1 to hit and...
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RAVERStarting skills: noneStarting equipment: a light stabbing screwdriver, 20 stolen pills, a stolen ACCESS ALL AREAS wristband, half a pack of cigarettes.A - Dead Eyes, The...
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I am planning on going on a brief hiatus from this blog - the initial creative impulse has spent itself a little, but I also have some other projects going at the moment that I...
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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...