Garamondia

Each in Turn Caitlin was exactly as good a student as she remembered.

Ella asks what her current title is, since this changes fairly regularly, and Caitlin says that she is a consultant at the moment, specifically a consultant dealing with the psychology of combatants and adversaries, but that for all the usual reasons this…

In ancient times when the codes of civilisation were being worked from the raw stuff of human sociality there were great kings and wild beasts and they ruled their subjects together, in strange and circular lockstep, as gods might rule.

This post for the lovely Squamous, who asked for 'giant rats in a dungeon' style starter quests for baby mercenaries.

This post dedicated to the lovely Loch, who asked for information on a Baronial city that wasn't the capital.

By demand of beloved Bamzo, the top secret Barony playlist.

Sundered has asked how people name things in their games and paracosms, and many have answered the summons with good and useable advice.

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.

CW: femicide The capital is abuzz - rumour says that the poet Sapphon Delayer has murdered his wife, the poet Tinter Briar, in a drunken argument over royalties.

I am currently 8 sessions into running this campaign for some people on the glog server.

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 Bibliothéque, and the distributor.

Previously on mask relay: the lovely Vivanter.

CW: medical brain injury.

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 them also train with weapons, but this is mostly for personal, pragmatic reaso…

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: Hans Bellmer and Heinrich von Kleist.

This post is dedicated to the lovely PRIME.

It has often been remarked that Barony is a horror setting, and this is mostly true.

This post is dedicated to the lovely Loch.

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 surface ruins and buildings.

This post dedicated to the lovely Zmia Garinia.

This post is dedicated to the lovely Purple.

This post is dedicated to the lovely Semiurge.

A particular type of loot that you will only find in the Barony.

Many moons ago I wrote a class for the the Citizens of the terrible imperial metropole.

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 first ever for an OSR style game!)

Steamboat in a Storm, Turner, 1841 Brythwin Island Petty Queen Gloran is a pale, cruel-faced woman, about fifty years old, strong willed and sharp-minded.