Symbaroum @ All Rolled Up
All Rolled Up have been around since 2013. Created by my wife and me, our first product—the titular All Rolled Up game roll—was borne out […]
Articles by Paul Baldowski
Q & A: Whips and Chains
What follows is a couple of recently asked questions about Symbaroum’s tangled mechanics, where I’ve come back with a solid response (though I’m not claiming […]
Assistance & Failure
A question was posed on Reddit about tests: In a Vigilant test for searching tracks or Cunning to remember something, if an ally wants to […]
A Guided Tor
South of the walls of Yndaros in the arable land that serves the demanding consumers of the city lies a contorted tumble of rocks surmounted […]
Of Blackhawk and Symbar
It would seem that Symbaroum has been anything but quiet in March and you have plenty of time, opportunity and reason to catch up if […]
Accurate Is My Dump Stat
It seems to be a clarion call for the existing Symbaroum players to call out this much maligned Attribute. You have to assign a score […]
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 […]
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 […]
