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)