The wagon of bands for September 8th - inspirational media (in this case, for Lanthanide Horizon). Like weirdwriter I will be writing this in 15 minutes, though in my case that's because if I think about it for too long I will cringe right out the back of my own head. | Archon's Court
4 ships and 9 treasures of the megastructure nomads.| archons-court.blogspot.com
The "gunsmith's society" is an occult ritual organization within the clan-ship society of the Navigators, specializing in military leadership, mutual aid, and mediation across the lines of the three Navigator "assemblies".| Archon's Court
An OSR tabletop gaming blog.| archons-court.blogspot.com
You walk the path to Vyeku Proxy Tekha, member of the nomenklatura, the contending-class. You walk it first in trepidation, then in terror, then in resolve - your tin fingertip-covers click against the handle of your knife. He deserves it.| Archon's Court
Player characters in the upcoming Navigator hexcrawl campaign start "grounded" - their sept-vessel shattered and their clan left to scrape out a life pinned to the earth. This provides them with a medium-term goal that creates a real sense of progression - reclaiming the Black Season (which grounded septs have to spend holding their breath in an airlocked camp), expanding the world, and entering them into the endless knife-fight of Assembly politics.| Archon's Court
Navigators are a foraging society in the megastructure of Lanthanide Horizon - their sept-vessels, each holding an extended family, wander out from their holy sites in their home cylinder to trade, raid, and gather from their neighbors. | Archon's Court
The river is gone. | Archon's Court
From time to time, the gift economy appears in RPGs - but it’s a niche enough topic that I can probably drag some(?) uncommon advice out of it, after using it in one of my most recent campaigns, set among the Sustainer Cells of the megastructure. | Archon's Court
This post has taken me just about forever. It is, theoretically, a prologue to a regional hexcrawl - the drought-struck tunnels of Component Transit - but, given how this went, I suspect it'll be a while before then. | Archon's Court
Since posting about them I managed to start, turn to despise, and then end a play-by-post campaign among the sept-vessels of the Navigators. This is a bit of a slushpost - ships, items, lore, and procedures dredged from the ruins. It is long, rambling, and poorly organized, and that's exactly what you deserve. Suffer.| Archon's Court
Where//Who//Why| Archon's Court
Ships hover in vacuum, bathed in smoke and coated in banners and medallions. Their pilots scrutinize the charts painted on the inside of their hollow world in glowing gold and white. Laborers load them with treasures, ancestral relics, and carefully-tuned air rifles.| Archon's Court