Friday 16 October 2020

WILDERNESS SUPPLEMENT UPDATE (2)

 Those of you who backed PARIAH will be aware that I've been working VERY SLOWLY on a robust (and free) set of rules for adventures in the wilderness. I've already received a couple of nudges on itch and Kickstarter to get a move on, and I've set myself a deadline for the end of this month. But this recent post https://www.osrelfgame.com/post/a-primer-on-hex-crawling (which I think was the first time I've followed up a  Facebook post then found it on r/osr)

Let me talk you through what sort of stuff you're going to find inside:


This post was originally conceived as a follow-up to this  one: 

Tuesday 13 October 2020

PARIAH DISCORD SESSION 015: UNLUCKY ONES

A summary of the FIFTEENTH session of the discord live voice-chat game of PARIAH. This is a continuation of events in the FOURTEENTH session.

To find out more about PARIAH please read this post https://aloneinthelabyrinth.blogspot.com/p/pariah-proto-neolithc-psychedelic.html or trawl through the many, many posts tagged pariah at this link https://aloneinthelabyrinth.blogspot.com/search/label/Pariah.

Sleepflower by Abigail Lingford


SESSION 15: DAY 16 CROW MOON FULL

(This session took place on Saturday 3rd October, real world)

Sunday 11 October 2020

Jones' Oracular Dungeon Generator

 So nearly one year ago now (in a time before COVID-19) I received a very special gift from Jones Smith aka Screwhead McDuff aka Mr Screw-on-head in the form of a post-Roman, pre-Saxon Britain hexcrawl generator. I'm quite some way off from putting that into action (there sits in my blog-in a draft post ten months old) but in the meantime I wish to draw your attention to this:

https://wasitlikely.blogspot.com/2019/10/oracular-dungeon-generation-and.html

It's a way to create and populate dungeons that are as interesting as their maps.

The Undertemple of Imperfect Reflection by Foot of the Mountain Adventures

(actually it's also a way to make a map)

This is the first of a number of posts I have planned where I use some other creators' tools and see what pops out of the other end. This particular methodology was inspired by Chris McDowall's spark tables.

NB. This is very much a work in progress. I go through the first 5 stages with the intention of 

Saturday 10 October 2020

PARIAH DISCORD SESSION 014: GOING 'HOME'

A summary of the FOURTEENTH session of the discord live voice-chat game of PARIAH. This is a continuation of events in the THIRTEENTH session.


To find out more about PARIAH please read this post https://aloneinthelabyrinth.blogspot.com/p/pariah-proto-neolithc-psychedelic.html or trawl through the many, many posts tagged pariah at this link https://aloneinthelabyrinth.blogspot.com/search/label/Pariah.

Actual photo of actual pigeon vs. actual catfish

SESSION 13: DAY 15 GIBBOUS CROW MOON  WAXING (continued)

(This session took place on Saturday 12th September)

Friday 9 October 2020

TAKE THE INITIATIVE [from TROIKA!]

 Wow! \I'm really doing it! I'm making a post about initiative! I mean, I re-blogged shuttered room once... https://aloneinthelabyrinth.blogspot.com/2020/01/shuttered-room-classic-six-initiative.html

Actually I have no really contribution to the discourse, just wanted to say what I like about Troika! initiative and there's a bit of chat about it's application in skirmish games and/or tactical RPGS... here's my take...

Such a beautiful cover!
You can buy it from The Melsonian Arts Council and they'll even include a free book inside it!

The memorious among you may remember that I was working on a Salute of the Jugger game a little while back and one of the most fun elements of the playtest with Tinhead Ned and Eugene was the random initiative system which I adapted from Troika.

...most fun for me at least, I don't think anyone else enjoyed themselves...

PARIAH DISCORD SESSION 013: THE SETTLEMENT BY THE SEA

A summary of the THIRTEENTH session of the discord live voice-chat game of PARIAH. This is a continuation of events in the TWELFTH session. If you want to hear me ramble through this in podcast format, please click here https://anchor.fm/alonein-thelabyrinth/episodes/Episode-04-Last-Nights-PARIAH-session-ej71u2

To find out more about PARIAH please read this post https://aloneinthelabyrinth.blogspot.com/p/pariah-proto-neolithc-psychedelic.html or trawl through the many, many posts tagged pariah at this link https://aloneinthelabyrinth.blogspot.com/search/label/Pariah.

SESSION 13: DAY 15 GIBBOUS CROW MOON WAXING

(This session took place on Saturday 5th September)

Monday 5 October 2020

These Spirits Are Thought To Live Far Out At Sea And Are Usually Malevolent

Monster generation inspired by the procedures illustrated in HANTU by the incomparable Zedeck Siew. Buy it now through itch.io https://athousandthousandislands.itch.io/hantu.

This post was also been inspired by the ongoing quest to make all the monsters you'll ever need:

https://shutteredroom.blogspot.com/2020/09/all-monsters-youll-ever-need.html

By Jef Cox, from PARIAH

Taking Zedeck's procedure as a prompt, I've made my own series for weird spirits that might inhabit the world of PARIAH...

CONTEN WARNING: body horror, genital references, scatology...

Sunday 4 October 2020

PARIAH ACTUAL PLAY — DISCORD VOICE SESSION 012 [the (un)giving tree]

A summary of the TWELFTH session of the discord live voice-chat game of PARIAH. This is a continuation of events in the eleventh session (the beach episode).

To find out more about PARIAH please read this post https://aloneinthelabyrinth.blogspot.com/p/pariah-proto-neolithc-psychedelic.html or trawl through the many, many posts tagged pariah at this link https://aloneinthelabyrinth.blogspot.com/search/label/Pariah.

Image of Maggot by JenFurious (Undecided over-the-Yellow One's player)

SESSION 12: DAY 14 CROW MOON (continued)

(This session took place on Saturday 29th August)