Princess Mononoke Glaugust is here, one of the prompts is from Vyra is about food. I have had a hard time writing anything good for the bl...| garamondia.blogspot.com
There is a dividing mountain range north of the Barony, which forms the border between its territories and those of the Empire of the White ...| garamondia.blogspot.com
Roses only grow in one place in the world - the dividing mountain range that separates the Barony from the Empire to its north (they actually also grow in the dreamlands, but no one has figured out yet how to get dream roses back with them to waking life). All attempts to propagate them elsewhere have failed, and not for lack of trying - roses are an extremely valuable luxury commodity, and many of the mountaineer communities are wealthy exclusively from their trade.| garamondia.blogspot.com
Roses only grow in one place in the world - the dividing mountain range that separates the Barony from the Empire to its north (they actua...| garamondia.blogspot.com
Garamondia just hit 150 posts , Phlox mentioned that I should do an index, Semi actually did an index, and I have some other creative pro...| garamondia.blogspot.com
Kwaidan, Masaki Kobayashi, 1965| Garamondia
If you can be seen, you can be targeted. The same is true of your enemies - if you can see them, you can target them. | Garamondia
Balistigae| Garamondia
Hell, painted by Botticelli after Danté.| Garamondia
And it destroys your ability to think coherently. Angels won't talk about this at all, except under extreme duress. A demon might, and it will probably be with sadness, fear, and confusion. | Garamondia
Source unknown.| Garamondia
I recently redid the Damosel class for the GLOG, which is what I write in nowadays, but old hands will remember that the class was originally written years ago for Cloak and Sword, now sadly defunct. There has been a swelling of interest in the old hack, including in things like the Esprit table (remember that old thing?!), so I thought it would be appropriate to reprint the original here before all is lost to time. | Garamondia
Mithraeum in Pompeii| Garamondia
The Southern Nomads trade hard boiled sweets for fantastic sums of money, which makes many of the Southern houses extremely wealthy. | Garamondia
It would be rude not to.| Garamondia
It is like you are sick. It is no longer possible to hold something clearly in your head and to make a decision one way or the other. There are great machines, hidden, drumming their awful repetitions, burning into and stopping up the grey matter of the brain. There are times when the room you live is like hell, and then it is back again, exactly as it was. You can't control this. People survive as best they can, and sometimes they disappear. Casual cruelty is omnipresent, accompanied by terr...| Garamondia
Some more bits of skeleton for this weird xcom game.| Garamondia
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The Sea People| Garamondia
Imagine the public spaces of the hotel— most clearly the lobby, gym, and restaurant areas— as a type of stage; a series of strictly bounded spaces through which various bodies enter and exit, and where some of them perform. The lobby is the largest by area but also the most sparse. There are pale, polished stone floors, dark timber walls with false inset frames spaced along their length at regular intervals, and a ceiling almost three stories high from which hang four small and tasteful e...| Garamondia
It was during dinner that conversation turned to the work that they had done before they crewed the machine. Captain and Signaller were sitting alone in the cramped mess but the others would join them soon. Captain was the one who asked, and Signaller replied that in his life before he worked mostly as a labourer on the building sites that mushroomed up endlessly in the capital, as investors launched, championed, funded and occasionally pulled out of their various projects and development sch...| Garamondia
Following on from here. | Garamondia
I just posted a new class called the Star Seed, but forgot to write up any context for it. This post aims to rectify that grievous error. | Garamondia
NB: In the far south, the winters bring a 3 month night and the summers bring a three month day. The time of year has repercussions for your access to your templates. | Garamondia
I wrote here about food, including food in the White City. | Garamondia
Another quick one - one of the reasons I haven't been as active on this blog this month is that I've been writing fiction commissions for a few different places. One of the these is an art-adjacent literature and poetry magazine called Sore Anthology, which launched last week. | Garamondia
Loch asked me a while ago about what he named The Old Chaos - the time before the world was divided into its proper orders via the radical separateness of language. | Garamondia
Herron, Master A tall and unsmiling man - unsmiling because he is an introvert, and finds people difficult, not because he is unfriendly. He...| garamondia.blogspot.com
Kwaidan, Masaki Kobayashi, 1965| garamondia.blogspot.com
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 quality which I associate with that time in my life. It has been dormant since then, but recently reemerged while I was listening to some of the music that originally put the gears in motion. Amazing how music can do that.| garamondia.blogspot.com
These few posts have coalesced into a pdf, which now has full rules and a couple of new tables for play. I think it's feature complete, a...| garamondia.blogspot.com
I have been enjoying writing up little dungeons recently, so here is another, this time set in the heart of the Baronial Capital. | garamondia.blogspot.com
Beloved Vayra asked me to blog this so that it never gets lost in the murk of the discord server. Unsure if this is currently a thing tha...| garamondia.blogspot.com
The first one came to him at night while he was trying to fall asleep. When it arrived it told him that it was from the future, and that what it wanted to do was help him get there. When he asked where, it said ‘the future’, as though this was obvious; it wanted to help him get to the future. It was not immediately clear how it was speaking to him because its body seemed to be absolutely inert. It appeared next to his bed somehow; he closed his eyes and opened them and it was there, spraw...| garamondia.blogspot.com
A non-comprehensive list of the honourifics of the Bird Kings: Kings of the Earth; Kings of the Eight Lands; Those Who Rule Where Others Claim to Rule; Kings of Kings; Those of the Royal Aspect which Horrifies the Soul; Kings of the Universe.| garamondia.blogspot.com
The Baronial Agents They do not control a monopoly on violence, and are popularly described as simply the largest and best-equipped gang in...| garamondia.blogspot.com
The duel with Loch continues, blows rain down with extraordinary ferocity... Today's prompt:| garamondia.blogspot.com
Somewhere in the butchers' district of the Capital there is a nondescript iron door in the side of one of the meat processing warehouses. Th...| garamondia.blogspot.com
The Unsightly Beast The Beast roams the wild and untamed forests, howling, gurgling, nonsense, insanity. You always hear it before you see i...| garamondia.blogspot.com
If your dreamlands don't look like Gustave Moreau paintings you are canonically doing it wrong. Jupiter and Semele , Gustave Moreau, 1895. ...| garamondia.blogspot.com
When people are subjected to the predations of warfare, of bands of soldiers and deserters, thieves and killers, the trauma stays with them....| garamondia.blogspot.com
Quick one on guns, because I have been slapped around by this excellent post and can no longer ignore the fact that you can and should buy ...| garamondia.blogspot.com
In the setting I write and play in, disease is very prevalent. The further you burrow into the earth, the more pockets of sickness and miasm...| garamondia.blogspot.com
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 w...| garamondia.blogspot.com
Barony uses some bespoke morale rules, currently written up as follows: PC Morale ...| garamondia.blogspot.com
A few days ago I gave Loch a prompt for a dungeon, here . They have given me one in return: Decay. - THE BLISTER Far too far out into the F...| garamondia.blogspot.com
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 operati...| garamondia.blogspot.com
Me and Loch recently put together a d666 for genning up monsters . In the flurry of activity that followed, I also ended up chatting briefl...| garamondia.blogspot.com
The original Barony class document included a Barbarian, which I thought was a fun twist on dnd norms - it was modelled after a steppe noma...| garamondia.blogspot.com
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 trave...| garamondia.blogspot.com
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 ...| garamondia.blogspot.com
Once upon a time, Arnold K wrote a fantastic class . It happens pretty regularly, but this one was one of the things that got me thinking ab...| garamondia.blogspot.com
An elegant monster for a more civilised age. This is something like a formal exercise, inspired by Arnold K's Terophidian and some chat wit...| garamondia.blogspot.com