Whither Davokar?

March 17, 2021 Paul Baldowski 13

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 […]

The Promise Reloaded

May 19, 2020 Paul Baldowski 0

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 […]

Embracing Symbaroum

November 11, 2018 Paul Baldowski 1

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 […]

Calculating Defense

July 22, 2018 Paul Baldowski 0

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 […]

Le Pacte De Fer

March 24, 2017 Paul Baldowski 0

Approximate time to read: 1 minutes.   I can hardly believe that I have been reading, playing and gamemastering Symbaroum for more than a year and running […]

Casting Checks

March 7, 2017 Paul Baldowski 1

Approximate time to read: 3 minutes.   Someone put forward the following question on Reddit around the use of Mystical Powers in Symbaroum. Hey guys. Quick question […]

Archaeology Today

December 22, 2016 Paul Baldowski 1

Approximate time to read: 5 minutes.   The Monte Cook Games setting/system Numenera describes a truly ancient Earth where nine great civilisations have risen and fallen over […]

Symbaroum Resources

October 5, 2016 Paul Baldowski 1

Approximate time to read: 1 minutes.   Following a discussion on Slack, I offer up the services of The Iron Pact as a clearing house for links to […]

Davokar Persists

September 25, 2016 Paul Baldowski 1

Approximate time to read: 1 minutes.   If you don’t have quite enough places to chat about Symbaroum, it would be well worth your time downloading (or […]

Care With Names

September 11, 2016 Paul Baldowski 0

Approximate time to read: 5 minutes.   I ran an extended game of The Wheel of Misfortune yesterday, using the rules for The Symbaroum Funnel. This created […]

May Pact Update

May 18, 2016 Paul Baldowski 3

Approximate time to read: 2 minutes.   A brief update on The Iron Pact and Symbaroum. I have been REALLY busy over the last month with another […]

Z is for Zeal

May 1, 2016 Paul Baldowski 0

Approximate time to read: 8 minutes.   The A-to-Z Challenge offered an opportunity to show me just how engaged I could become with a game or setting. […]

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I is for Iron Pact

April 11, 2016 Paul Baldowski 2

Approximate time to read: 3 minutes.   The true nature of the Iron Pact, its extent and true purpose, remains elusive, an idea at best steeped in […]

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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 […]

The Symbaroum Funnel

February 19, 2016 Paul Baldowski 7

Approximate time to read: 4 minutes.   Dungeon Crawl Classics has something called “the funnel”, an adventure approach that takes a large number of very low-level characters […]