A Tough Act to Follow
When you put yourself in harms way, you set your life firmly on the line. Those who enter the field of battle without a solid […]
Discussion
The Mythology of Symbaroum
The mythology of Symbaroum lies in the hands of the GM. When you really consider the nature of the world set down in Symbaroum, you […]
Intermissions and ENnies
For those waiting on the progress of my A-to-Z Challenge, I promise that it will return. However, it will return at a pace conducive to […]
Le Pacte De Fer
I can hardly believe that I have been reading, playing and gamemastering Symbaroum for more than a year and running The Iron Pact for most […]
Casting Checks
Someone put forward the following question on Reddit around the use of Mystical Powers in Symbaroum. Hey guys. Quick question regarding PCs and the use […]
More Strange Remnants
I posted a list of strange remains of the Symbaroum Empire in Archaeology Today – and it occurred to me that I haven’t posted to Twitter […]
Archaeology Today
The Monte Cook Games setting/system Numenera describes a truly ancient Earth where nine great civilisations have risen and fallen over millions of year. These civilisations […]
Symbaroum Resources
Following a discussion on Slack, I offer up the services of The Iron Pact as a clearing house for links to resources for Symbaroum across the […]
Davokar Persists
If you don’t have quite enough places to chat about Symbaroum, it would be well worth your time downloading (or accessing) Slack and join in […]
Care With Names
I ran an extended game of The Wheel of Misfortune yesterday, using the rules for The Symbaroum Funnel. This created a bunch of zero Experience […]
The Cow and the Recharge
I will be running Symbaroum at Concrete Cow for the morning session (10am) in Milton Keynes, 10th September 2016. The Wheel of Misfortune Since the […]
Just the Battle, Not the War
Even the richest crop feeds on decay For the last two nights, I ran a bit of an improvised game of Symbaroum for friends, pitting […]
May Pact Update
A brief update on The Iron Pact and Symbaroum. I have been REALLY busy over the last month with another project – specifically writing The […]
The Iron Pact on Patreon
After posting more than 80 articles and more than 62,000 words of content, I have realised that I can only maintain this level of output […]
Z is for Zeal
The A-to-Z Challenge offered an opportunity to show me just how engaged I could become with a game or setting. In the past, I have […]
Y is for Yes, and…
Not advice specific to Symbaroum and not to be used without care and consideration, but I have found in running the game, with a mind […]
M is for More Symbaroum
Sorry about this one – but I have an event in Sheffield – Seven Hills – this weekend that has absorbed much of my time, […]
I is for Iron Pact
The true nature of the Iron Pact, its extent and true purpose, remains elusive, an idea at best steeped in innuendo. In our world, this […]
The Right Balance
If you check out the comments for the Two Characters More post, you will see Isak and me having a discussion about the relative balance […]
Not Sure If
This weekend I have the opportunity run Titan Wake a second time – following the successful run last weekend at Concrete Cow 16. This time, […]
I Don’t Always
As I’m busy running games of Symbaroum this weekend at Concrete Cow 16, I thought a brief pause in the content would be in order. From […]
Symbaroum – Story and Balance
Symbaroum has a place in your gaming world. Or it should. A fantasy filled with Elves, Trolls, Undead and Witches, littered with corruption, politics, deprivation […]
The Symbaroum Funnel
Dungeon Crawl Classics has something called “the funnel”, an adventure approach that takes a large number of very low-level characters and tests their mettle. It […]