Whither Davokar?
Approximate time to read: 3 minutes. I’m Not Giving Up, I’m Just Starting Over Unknown When you’ve been around as long as The Iron Pact […]
Articles by Paul Baldowski
The Promise Reloaded
Approximate time to read: 7 minutes. Troupe play is about the breadth of experience available within a setting, the possibility of approaching a deep and vibrant […]
Strange Materials
Approximate time to read: 1 minutes. Material (Core, p130) happens to be one of those elements in the Core Rulebook that probably dropped off every table’s […]
Symbar – One-Day Special
Approximate time to read: 1 minutes. To celebrate the digital release of Symbar – Mother of Darkness – part 4 of The Throne of Thorns sequence […]
Symbaroum @ All Rolled Up
Approximate time to read: 2 minutes. All Rolled Up have been around since 2013. Created by my wife and me, our first product—the titular All Rolled […]
Q & A: Whips and Chains
Approximate time to read: 5 minutes. What follows is a couple of recently asked questions about Symbaroum’s tangled mechanics, where I’ve come back with a solid […]
Assistance & Failure
Approximate time to read: 3 minutes. A question was posed on Reddit about tests: In a Vigilant test for searching tracks or Cunning to remember something, […]
Of Blackhawk and Symbar
Approximate time to read: 2 minutes. It would seem that Symbaroum has been anything but quiet in March and you have plenty of time, opportunity and […]
Accurate Is My Dump Stat
Approximate time to read: 3 minutes. It seems to be a clarion call for the existing Symbaroum players to call out this much maligned Attribute. You […]
The Bell Tolls for Kastor
Approximate time to read: 8 minutes. I ran two sessions of The Bell Tolls for Kastor at Con-Tingency, a convention situated in a holiday resort on […]
Only Promises and Hopes
Approximate time to read: 3 minutes. It can be a challenge to get new gamers up to speed quickly, while also giving them a flavour of […]
New Translations – Dec 2018
Approximate time to read: 1 minutes. I’m pleased to say that the opportunity and assistance has been favourable to get two new articles up on non-English […]
Evocation by Art – Dungenesis
Approximate time to read: 1 minutes. Something I recommend to anyone playing any role-playing game, not least Symbaroum, is to get on to sites like Artstation, Deviantart […]
City Generator
Approximate time to read: 1 minutes. I’m always impressed when I come across simple tools that Gamemasters can use to rapidly generate content. watabou’s incredible Medieval […]
Embracing Symbaroum
Approximate time to read: 7 minutes. In gaming, as with so many other hobbies and pastimes, there are different views and perspectives of what works, what […]
Symbaroum PDF Digital Offer
Approximate time to read: 1 minutes. Free League has taken on the handling of sales for all of the PDFs of their products, and with the […]
Free League and Järnringen
Approximate time to read: 1 minutes. Fans of Symbaroum have been greeted today by the news that Järnringen and Free League have merged – bring Coriolis, […]
Street Traders of Yndaros
Approximate time to read: 5 minutes. Yndaros has an organic element to it, a tendency to grow and transform on a daily basis. Built on the […]
Calculating Defense
Approximate time to read: 5 minutes. It’s one of those challenges. While all the books come with the details of your antagonists laid out, you still […]
Deep Connections
Approximate time to read: 5 minutes. Those more used to games that service party building through mechanical reward or for which association comes through engineering selection, […]
A Symbaroum Of Your Own
Approximate time to read: 6 minutes. Run your game with confidence. If nothing else, you should come at it with a certainty that belies any self-doubt […]
Herbal Cures
Approximate time to read: 5 minutes. Alchemists and masters of herbal arts prepare cures to many and varied recipes, none ever alike. All come in the […]
Symbaroum Kickstarter One-Shot
Approximate time to read: 1 minutes. In the throat of the northern pass out of the Titans, the first semblance of Ambrian civilisation stands guard – […]
Words of Power
Approximate time to read: 5 minutes. Information can be everything and nothing, depending on how you look at it. Perhaps, in some unintentional way, the use […]
Starting in The Promised Land
Approximate time to read: 4 minutes. You might have noticed that the prolific Järnringen team has got a new Kickstarter up and running, to translate the […]
The Iron Pact – 30 Questions
Approximate time to read: 7 minutes. This month for the last two years I have participated in the A-to-Z Challenge, but that hasn’t been possible this […]
Narrow PDF Character Sheet
Approximate time to read: 1 minutes. After spotting a request on Reddit for a blank version of the narrow Symbaroum nature sheet, I have created a […]
The Sleepless Path and The Monster Codex
Approximate time to read: 1 minutes. A couple of brief updates, with no new articles here until March. The Sleepless Path Released As mentioned earlier this […]
The Sleepless Path – Revised
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Ultimate Guard Flip’n’Tray
Approximate time to read: 2 minutes. To be clear, I have no connection to Ultimate Guard – other than gawping at the size of their stand […]
On The Road
Approximate time to read: 8 minutes. The Mountain Pass provides the potential for a week long journey, while The Promised Land adventure feels a lot shorter – […]
Davokar in minimald6
Approximate time to read: 1 minutes. I find that tinkering with ideas can be a wellspring for creative thought, so I read the short text of […]
Trust in a Promised Land
Approximate time to read: 6 minutes. Introductory adventure The Promised Land, from the Core Book, offers an interesting opportunity to deal with the themes and environment […]
Experience Points
Approximate time to read: 6 minutes. You won’t get your players to spend their experience on anything during a session if it isn’t burning a hole […]
Flavorful Character Sheet
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The Iron Pact ‘To-Do’ List
Approximate time to read: 1 minutes. As touched upon in this when chatting with The Iron Pact Patrons late last year, I’m open to ideas on where […]
The Unseen Sanctuary: Part 1
Approximate time to read: 5 minutes. The Church of Prios is not without hope that the sickness that grips Ambria can be cured. The zealous may […]
Resources Gifted and Given
Approximate time to read: 2 minutes. As ever, I’m always on the look out for useful resources that will ease your preparation or gaming in the […]
More Monstrous Boons
Approximate time to read: 5 minutes. When the Monster Codex arrives in the middle of next year, Symbaroum will have more than enough beasts and monsters […]
News from The Iron Pact
Approximate time to read: 1 minutes. The Iron Pact now has a newsletter feature, which you can sign up to for updates on new articles, events, […]
Don’t Mention the Ducks
Approximate time to read: 1 minutes. The Andrik are coming. Having passed the 800,000 SEK mark, on the Monster Codex Kickstarter, you have now let loose […]
The Monster Codex
Approximate time to read: 3 minutes. If you have been out treasure-seeking in the depths of Davokar or knee-deep in the festering antiquities of a Symbaroum […]
The Taint of Corruption – part 4
Approximate time to read: 4 minutes. The Advanced Player’s Guide introduces further Mystical Traditions to lend further depth and variety to the study of the arcane […]
Updated Character Sheet
Approximate time to read: 2 minutes. Firstly, if you haven’t been there and joined up, the official English language web form for Symbaroum, on Reddit, has […]
The Taint of Corruption – part 3
Approximate time to read: 4 minutes. The treatise on matters of corruption and the debilitating burden of the magic arts continues, with an account of Independent […]
The Taint of Corruption – part 2
Approximate time to read: 4 minutes. Continuing the treatise upon the manifestations and management of corrupting energies by the Traditions of Ambria and beyond – see […]
Symbaroum on the Cards
Approximate time to read: 5 minutes. I’ve touched on the business of the Zero Level character before and the pleasures to be had in the process […]
The Taint of Corruption – part 1
Approximate time to read: 4 minutes. The stain of Corruption is a reality for any practitioner of the mystic arts, or for those braving artefacts or […]
