March 2016 – The Iron Pact

Dice Clocks

March 31, 2016 Paul Baldowski 0

Approximate time to read: 7 minutes. When you have a team of people working together to achieve a specific objective, it can come down to the […]

The Long and Varied Game

March 30, 2016 Paul Baldowski 1

Approximate time to read: 6 minutes. In my opinion, I think Symbaroum has a lot of potential for playing a long and varied game. I touched […]

The Entombed

March 28, 2016 Paul Baldowski 1

Approximate time to read: 3 minutes. When I describe the conditions in Alberetor after the war against the enemy, I make reference to radiation and comparison […]

The Entombed – Draft

March 26, 2016 Paul Baldowski 0

Approximate time to read: 1 minutes. The roiling, trembling earth lurched and sputtered like a graveyard cough, a wave of dirt and bone surging upward and […]

The Right Balance

March 25, 2016 Paul Baldowski 0

Approximate time to read: 3 minutes. If you check out the comments for the Two Characters More post, you will see Isak and me having a […]

Two Characters More

March 24, 2016 Paul Baldowski 7

Approximate time to read: 1 minutes. After spending the weekend running a game of Symbaroum at Go Play Leeds and trying out Lestra/o as a playable […]

Sear and Loathing

March 23, 2016 Paul Baldowski 0

Approximate time to read: 5 minutes. When I ran my Symbaroum session at the weekend, the players had a chance to learn a little of the […]

One-Shot Symbaroum

March 22, 2016 Paul Baldowski 6

Approximate time to read: 3 minutes. One-shot quick-start games matter a lot. If you can sit down and run something with only 15 minutes of warm-up […]

Symbaroum at GoPlayLeeds

March 21, 2016 Paul Baldowski 4

Approximate time to read: 3 minutes. The Gnarls got the short end of the straw again! I ran some measure of the Titan Wake adventure at […]

More Symbaroum Encounters

March 19, 2016 Paul Baldowski 1

Approximate time to read: 1 minutes. Short and simple encounters can be a life saver in a session. Whether you’re running the game on the fly […]

Not Sure If

March 19, 2016 Paul Baldowski 0

Approximate time to read: 1 minutes. This weekend I have the opportunity run Titan Wake a second time – following the successful run last weekend at […]

Ruinous Encounters – Part 2

March 18, 2016 Paul Baldowski 0

Approximate time to read: 8 minutes. Following on from Part 1 of Ruinous Encounters, a selection of encounter ideas based on Pär Lindström’s in-progress map, today […]

Ruinous Encounters – Part 1

March 17, 2016 Paul Baldowski 4

Approximate time to read: 5 minutes. A little while ago Pär Lindström posted up a work-in-progress that he thought might suit Symbaroum. I immediately took that […]

Notes of Misfortune

March 16, 2016 Paul Baldowski 1

Approximate time to read: 2 minutes. For reference, Wheel of Misfortune is an intentionally short adventure. I wanted to offer something that gave the player characters […]

Wheel of Misfortune

March 16, 2016 Paul Baldowski 2

Approximate time to read: 5 minutes. A brief adventure designed for a group of 0 Experience characters (see The Symbaroum Funnel for more thoughts on using […]

Flanking Focus

March 15, 2016 Paul Baldowski 2

Approximate time to read: 4 minutes. Symbaroum benefits from a loose mechanical framework that means you get just enough structure to run the game without the […]

Titan Wake at Concrete Cow

March 14, 2016 Paul Baldowski 2

Approximate time to read: 3 minutes. Titan Wake probably served as a rather world-shaking introduction to Symbaroum, setting a stage for destruction as the player […]

I Don’t Always

March 12, 2016 Paul Baldowski 0

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Symbaroum Powers Cards

March 11, 2016 Paul Baldowski 0

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Elixirs of Davokar (Part 1)

March 10, 2016 Paul Baldowski 0

Approximate time to read: 2 minutes. As referenced in the Core Rulebook, the peoples of Ambria and Davokar possess considerable knowledge about the uses and abuses […]

The Alternate 7

March 9, 2016 Paul Baldowski 4

Approximate time to read: 1 minutes. A while ago, I created a 6-pack of characters for use with The Promised Land, taking the material in the […]

Gnarl

March 8, 2016 Paul Baldowski 3

Approximate time to read: 2 minutes. If the enemy had a taste for hunting, the Gnarl would be their coursing hound, a fast stealthy tracking dog […]

Symbaroum – Story and Balance

March 7, 2016 Paul Baldowski 2

Approximate time to read: 3 minutes. Symbaroum has a place in your gaming world. Or it should. A fantasy filled with Elves, Trolls, Undead and Witches, […]

Blood Host

March 6, 2016 Paul Baldowski 2

Approximate time to read: 3 minutes. On the battlefields of Alberetor, the forces of Queen Korinthia faced the armies of an unnatural enemy. Soldier battled soldier […]

Symbaroum Reference Cards – Core

March 5, 2016 Paul Baldowski 2

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Symbaroum Note Paper

March 4, 2016 Paul Baldowski 2

Approximate time to read: 1 minutes. When I created my Symbaroum Reference Sheets, I’ve used a standard background similar to the one that Järnringen use for […]