The Bell Tolls for Kastor
I ran two sessions of The Bell Tolls for Kastor at Con-Tingency, a convention situated in a holiday resort on the chill and blustery east […]
Articles by Paul Baldowski
Only Promises and Hopes
The Iron Pact contains more than 150,000 words of content across multiple sites in multiple languages, brought together since the site launched in 2016. By […]
New Translations – Dec 2018
I’m pleased to say that the opportunity and assistance has been favourable to get two new articles up on non-English versions of The Iron Pact. […]
Evocation by Art – Dungenesis
Something I recommend to anyone playing any role-playing game, not least Symbaroum, is to get on to sites like Artstation, Deviantart and Pinterest with the aim […]
City Generator
I’m always impressed when I come across simple tools that Gamemasters can use to rapidly generate content. watabou’s incredible Medieval Fantasy City Generator seems to […]
Embracing Symbaroum
In gaming, as with so many other hobbies and pastimes, there are different views and perspectives of what works, what doesn’t, what’s right, what’s unhelpful. […]
Symbaroum PDF Digital Offer
Free League has taken on the handling of sales for all of the PDFs of their products, and with the Järnringen merger that means Symbaroum, […]
Free League and Järnringen
Fans of Symbaroum have been greeted today by the news that Järnringen and Free League have merged – bring Coriolis, Forbidden Lands, Mutant: Year Zero, […]
Street Traders of Yndaros
Yndaros has an organic element to it, a tendency to grow and transform on a daily basis. Built on the ruins of older settlements, the […]
Calculating Defense
It’s one of those challenges. While all the books come with the details of your antagonists laid out, you still feel the need to wonder […]
Deep Connections
Those more used to games that service party building through mechanical reward or for which association comes through engineering selection, assigning members of the group […]
A Symbaroum Of Your Own
Run your game with confidence. If nothing else, you should come at it with a certainty that belies any self-doubt you might have about the […]
Herbal Cures
Alchemists and masters of herbal arts prepare cures to many and varied recipes, none ever alike. All come in the form of a soft, moist […]
Symbaroum Kickstarter One-Shot
In the throat of the northern pass out of the Titans, the first semblance of Ambrian civilisation stands guard – Camp Titan. Once a small […]
Words of Power
Information can be everything and nothing, depending on how you look at it. Perhaps, in some unintentional way, the use of the word Cunning is […]
Starting in The Promised Land
You might have noticed that the prolific Järnringen team has got a new Kickstarter up and running, to translate the third chapter in the Throne […]
The Iron Pact – 30 Questions
This month for the last two years I have participated in the A-to-Z Challenge, but that hasn’t been possible this year because of other demands […]
Narrow PDF Character Sheet
After spotting a request on Reddit for a blank version of the narrow Symbaroum nature sheet, I have created a basic form fill PDF of […]
The Sleepless Path and The Monster Codex
A couple of brief updates, with no new articles here until March. The Sleepless Path Released As mentioned earlier this month, you can now access […]
The Sleepless Path – Revised
As promised, this release of The Sleepless Path formats and expands on the original material – including extra details on the Sleepless, the Posts, a […]
Ultimate Guard Flip’n’Tray
To be clear, I have no connection to Ultimate Guard – other than gawping at the size of their stand at Spiel the last two […]
On The Road
The Mountain Pass provides the potential for a week long journey, while The Promised Land adventure feels a lot shorter – indeed, half of the events […]
Davokar in minimald6
I find that tinkering with ideas can be a wellspring for creative thought, so I read the short text of Thronelands with interest. And then […]
Trust in a Promised Land
Introductory adventure The Promised Land, from the Core Book, offers an interesting opportunity to deal with the themes and environment that make up Symbaroum’s world. […]
Experience Points
You won’t get your players to spend their experience on anything during a session if it isn’t burning a hole in the table right in […]
Flavorful Character Sheet
I have added a new A4 landscape character sheet with a nice thematic look for the Symbaroum game, in a sort of grubby black-white style. […]
The Iron Pact ‘To-Do’ List
As touched upon in this when chatting with The Iron Pact Patrons late last year, I’m open to ideas on where to go with future posts […]
