Aru-Kamis–Return to the City of the Lich King

I’m currently working on a new Barbarians of Lemuria adventure Bride of the Rat King which is tentatively located in my existing setting of the dreadful haunted city of Aru-Kamis (though it can be dropped into any setting that has cities with disreputable areas, which is pretty much all of them). Because it’s been a […]

Devious in the Dark

I ran my first Blades in the Dark adventure last night and it was the proverbial blast. The characters were three members of the same family, a pair of brother/sister twins of mixed Akorosi and Skovlan heritage and their cousin (mixed Akorosi/Iruvian), all former Imperial military and now running a small smuggling outfit out of […]

Index Card RPG – Runehammer Games

I don’t often review games – I’m usually too busy playing and find it hard to come up with things to say that aren’t just lists of rules that I like or dislike, but I’m going to make an exception now and make a suggestion: You should buy Index Card RPG. Not so much a […]

Where is Everyone At?

For no real reason other than the growing impatience with myself for not keeping this blog updated more often I thought I’d pollute the pages with a brief run down of the campaigns I’m running at the moment. In no particular order Knight City Falls(Cyberpunk – originally Fate Core, now a homebrew hack) Grey “8.73” […]

Night’s Online Handouts

Since the valiant heroes in my Night’s Black Agents campaign ended up battered and bruised and in need of recuperation after narrowly escaping an Edom ambush, I decided to give them a bit of an information dump so that by the time they were fit to move again they had a few more leads. In […]

Soul Stone of Kulthai – an adventure of Barbarians of Lemuria

When a group of heroes set off in search of wealth and vengeance against a sect of foul Warlocks they are called on to free a warrior’s soul from torment. Things get nasty. Soul Stone of Kulthai is an adventure and micro-setting for Barbarians of Lemuria. The PDF link is HERE. Take, […]

Aru-Kamis: CIty of the Lich King #BarbariansOfLemuria

In response to some positive feedback I’ve put together a short document detailing a setting I’ve been using for Barbarians of Lemuria (Mythic Edition, not that it matters). This is one particular city in one particular country and it’s a useful jumping off point for several different types of adventure. It can become the […]

Commonplace Cullen – #TrailOfCthulhu #FearItself #Esoterrorists

A friend of mine shared the following humorous graphic on Liber Faciem recently: And there is more than a modicum of truth to it. I’ve recently taken to jotting down simple ideas as they occur to me using the web tool Trello as a scratchpad (though anything would work of course) because I know full […]

Red Shift – Episode 3 – Night’s Black Agents play report

Episode Three of RedShift was played out on Sunday evening, and while lighter on the action than the opening two episodes was still pretty intense and we got to see the Heat mechanics close up. Mysterious Arab fellow Valiant freelance agents Rowan and Hans ended last session in a private room just off the ER […]

The Sundered Seven

In recent posts I’ve discussed the collaborative worldbuilding undertaken by myself and a couple of players new to Tabletop gaming and posted the questions I set them to outline the basics of the world, and the answers they came up with. I’m attaching a link to the basic setting notes that resulted and hope they’re […]