Alone in the Labyrinth: How to Stat a Goddess
Turning an encounter with a goddess into a minigame in a proto-neolithic psychedelic animist sandbox RPG.| aloneinthelabyrinth.blogspot.com
Turning an encounter with a goddess into a minigame in a proto-neolithic psychedelic animist sandbox RPG.| aloneinthelabyrinth.blogspot.com
A TTRPG blog hosted by Sofinho, home to PARIAH (old school psychedelic animist proto-neolithic roleplaying game) and other stuff.| aloneinthelabyrinth.blogspot.com
Anomalous orbs: spotted in the dark depths of the forest, are these glowing orbs aliens? Spirits? Sentient camera artefacts? Roll D12 to find out NOW!| aloneinthelabyrinth.blogspot.com
Kitchen ghosts for animist RPGs, but mainly PARIAH.| aloneinthelabyrinth.blogspot.com
Where'd pariahs go when they die? They don't go up to the spirts in the sky... Go to the altar AFTER FUNERARY RITES, make a pool of all their hit dice| aloneinthelabyrinth.blogspot.com
Campaigning in a stone-and-sorcery megalopolis. This post covers the final wards the city's slums: 3 new "gods" and a new spin on an old one.| aloneinthelabyrinth.blogspot.com
Psychedelic stone age adventures on the moon| aloneinthelabyrinth.blogspot.com
The Crow Moon is the second month of the year, according to the Neolithic farmers of the White Chalk Coast . Each month I attempt to update this pariah almanac, with the end result being a calendar for an entire year, alongside supporting encounter and foraging tables, which in turn reflect the seasonal changes.| Alone in the Labyrinth
Continuing the series CITY OF A HUNDRED GODS, delving deeper into this ancient megalopolis. CW: animal cruelty, butchery, cannibalism| aloneinthelabyrinth.blogspot.com
Each full moon I intend to publish an update to the White Chalk sandbox here on this blog, describing the calendar year of a fantasy proto-Neolithic somewhat parallel to the world in which we live. At the time of writing we have already experienced 2 full moons (14th January 2025 and 12th February 2025), so I have to produce 2 further posts in prior to March's full moon.| Alone in the Labyrinth
Do I really want to kill the Bloggies or is this just clickbait? Instead of reading this post, why not write an angry comment beneath this link.| aloneinthelabyrinth.blogspot.com
I'm so poor at keeping up with these annual challenges, so I thought I'd run my own.| Alone in the Labyrinth
Previously we exhumed and revived some mystic rituals, with the added details of where they might go wrong if performed by those not fully practised in their execution. This time we're going to look at sorcerous rituals, accompanied by an appropriate image:| Alone in the Labyrinth
revised magic rituals, with fail states including weddings ending in possession or the priest becoming psychically bonded to the happy couple| aloneinthelabyrinth.blogspot.com
Exploring the proto-Neolithic feywilde with fantasy magic mushrooms. Made for RPG BLOG CARNIVAL: Other, Between, and Under – The Worlds Beyond| aloneinthelabyrinth.blogspot.com
A metapost companion to City of a Hundred Gods| aloneinthelabyrinth.blogspot.com
The Sea of Tents, the Black River and Dusk Gate have previously been described, alongside their patron deities the Shit-Beetle, the Goddess of the Lime-Slake and more. Have a look at that post before coming back here:| Alone in the Labyrinth
I'm not a huge fan of RPG Design discourse. I know what I enjoy in tabletop games and my openness to embracing new ideas extends to adventures and rulesets rather than abstracted diatribes and forge-era "theory". I love hearing about the obscure media and radical thought that inspires the brilliant worlds practitioners of this weird hobby continue to create, but for the life of me I can't recall an occasion where anyone's Appendix N included a patronising twitter thread.| Alone in the Labyrinth
I am a horrible philistine: my media consumption is mostly trash. What's worse is that on a surface level I maintain an ironic disconnection from my filthy habits, shovelling garbage into every available orifice while claiming to possess a discerning palate that really objects to all this filth, thank you.| Alone in the Labyrinth
A post in response to this month's RPG blog carnival: beyond Vancian magic| Alone in the Labyrinth
Hi. There's been some revisions to the player-facing side of the pariah rules, many of which I discussed in October's post:| Alone in the Labyrinth
I recently shared a revision to the curse of the spirit-touched, tying curses in PARIAH to PC inventory, in a nod to Cairn & Eco-Mofos. Continuing my ambition to publish revisions to the game as a series of modular zinis, I compiled the following curse "templates" (they can be applied as a lateral progression/impending doom track to any character) into the four-side format and published on itch:| Alone in the Labyrinth
If you're subscribed to my substack you'll have seen a revised PARIAH character generator PDF. If you're not subscribed to my substack you may be asking yourself why I have one AND a blog, to which I'll reply: CHRIS MCDOWALL HAS BOTH SO I CAN TOO. You'll also be aware that I already shared the chargen PDF in the last blogpost, so this is a doubly redundant introduction.| Alone in the Labyrinth
If you subscribe to the monthly newsletter I hawk over on substack you will have already seen the changes I've made to character generation in PARIAH, as well as the implied modifications to the player facing mechanics. Feel free to peruse the PDF here if you haven't yet seen it. I'll caveat this with the following statement: don’t distribute it for commercial gain or claim it as your own work. It’s a WIP and hasn’t been fully tested yet, new PARIAH campaign should kick off Friday 20th ...| Alone in the Labyrinth
There comes a time in a nerd's life when they have to take a good, long look at what they've done with their time on earth and think to themselves... FUCK! I HAVEN'T EVEN HAD A PROPER STAB AT A CONLANG! | Alone in the Labyrinth
More than two years ago I made a post called "demi-humans and alignment: dwarfs" which originally included a bit about elves, later replaced with a bit that promised: "elves update to follow!"...| Alone in the Labyrinth
A number of weeks ago I posted regarding my intention to run Stygian Library solo. There's a link right here but for some reason they aren't showing up as such, so please scroll to the end to read the comprehensive list of pages linked in this post. I've since already run a party of adventurers through a delve in the Stygian library, and had some thoughts about what the survivors (spoiler alert! some of them survive!) do next. However, before writing that up I wanted to go into a little more...| Alone in the Labyrinth
So... the inevitable has happened: I have postponed the City of Ghosts Friday Lunchtime Sandbox... indefinitely. It became too disheartening waiting each week only for it never to happen. I'm going to blame the format for this: thanks Luke Gearing!| Alone in the Labyrinth
Last year I returned to the untied loose end of the Dawn Realm (crudely, Pariah's equivalent of the feywilde) with this slightly long, sketchy post. It's been fermenting since then with a great deal of reagents added following conversations on this blog and elsewhere, of which many were with Max Cantor of Weird and Wonderful Worlds. It took watching Scavengers Reign for me to take this pot of potent brew off the flames and let it cool, let the residue crystallise, and then snort a big hefty o...| Alone in the Labyrinth
I've recently been playing Gangs of Titan City as a solo game, but you may have noticed various other RPG luminaries engaged in this dark practice. Indeed, it was friend-of the blog JFUR who first inspired my return to the labyrinth alone with her Into the Odd solo campaign. While ludic onanism has long been a staple of the frustrated forever GM, seeing Skullboy aka Better Legends transform his own game into an entire comic book, Delvers felt like something of a shift in the sands. Why, eve...| Alone in the Labyrinth
Some thoughts on hud-less roleplaying| aloneinthelabyrinth.blogspot.com
A pivotal trade city open to the world, yet simultaneously suspicious of outsiders. A place where magic and even writing is illegal.| aloneinthelabyrinth.blogspot.com
What even is ELF? Featuring obligatory UFO references for the fey-gray-pilled| aloneinthelabyrinth.blogspot.com
Mega-post incoming: "rules" for a specific (fictional) entheogen and procedures to generate+explore the psychedelic realm to which it provides access| aloneinthelabyrinth.blogspot.com
Instead of invoking and binding spell-spirits, why not provide them with a nice place to live? Possible whacky theory about the evolution of beekeepin| aloneinthelabyrinth.blogspot.com
First solo session (well, the second, really) of GANGS OF TITAN CITY!| aloneinthelabyrinth.blogspot.com
A TTRPG blog hosted by Sofinho, home to PARIAH (old school psychedelic animist proto-neolithic roleplaying game) and other stuff.| aloneinthelabyrinth.blogspot.com
