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 […]
Character Creation
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 have […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Lies That Bind
Approximate time to read: 7 minutes. The PCs come to a settlement where many of the population have gathered in the centre to listen to the […]
L is for Long Doors
Approximate time to read: 5 minutes. The rules aren’t the same wherever you go; the world just doesn’t work that way and will throw you a […]
I is for Identity Magic
Approximate time to read: 3 minutes. The act of stealing the identity of another can only come from violence. The assumption of the physical appearance of […]
G is for Gaoian Mysticism
Approximate time to read: 4 minutes. Witches of the barbarian tribes embrace the traditions of the Old Gods, discounted or blasted as heretical by the church of […]
D is for Despair and Dismay
Approximate time to read: 4 minutes. The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of […]
B is for Boons and Burdens
Approximate time to read: 6 minutes. The nicest thing about Boons and Burdens, introduced in the Advanced Player’s Guide, has to be that they have a […]
Just the Battle, Not the War
Approximate time to read: 5 minutes. Even the richest crop feeds on decay For the last two nights, I ran a bit of an improvised game […]
The Ordo Septimus
Approximate time to read: 5 minutes. While just a region of a wider world, the aberrant nature of Davokar makes Ambria all the more dangerous place […]
X is for Xavagunda
Approximate time to read: 3 minutes. Grumpa, a lost and bewildered ogre, was adopted by a traveling theater company, which had her do the heavy work […]
U is for Undead
Approximate time to read: 6 minutes. Death is not an option. Or, at least, sometimes you don’t want it to be something thrust upon a player […]
A is for Attributes
Approximate time to read: 4 minutes. The eight individual Attributes make up the core of Symbaroum’s mechanics. When you challenge yourself or face a challenge you complete a […]
One-Shot Symbaroum
Approximate time to read: 3 minutes. One-shot quick-start games matter a lot. If you can sit down and run something with only 15 minutes of warm-up […]
