The Taint of Corruption – part 4
Approximate time to read: 4 minutes. The Advanced Player’s Guide introduces further Mystical Traditions to lend further depth and variety to the study of the arcane […]
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The Taint of Corruption – part 3
Approximate time to read: 4 minutes. The treatise on matters of corruption and the debilitating burden of the magic arts continues, with an account of Independent […]
The Taint of Corruption – part 2
Approximate time to read: 4 minutes. Continuing the treatise upon the manifestations and management of corrupting energies by the Traditions of Ambria and beyond – see […]
Symbaroum on the Cards
Approximate time to read: 5 minutes. I’ve touched on the business of the Zero Level character before and the pleasures to be had in the process […]
The Taint of Corruption – part 1
Approximate time to read: 4 minutes. The stain of Corruption is a reality for any practitioner of the mystic arts, or for those braving artefacts or […]
Heyzrehell’s Google Character Sheet
Approximate time to read: 1 minutes. Amongst many other utilities now available for Symbaroum, Heyzrehell posted a version of the character sheet in Google Sheets over […]
Arms of Quality
Approximate time to read: 6 minutes. Mechanics don’t necessarily need to make perfect sense, but when they don’t a game can often descend into a much […]
A Tough Act to Follow
Approximate time to read: 7 minutes. When you put yourself in harms way, you set your life firmly on the line. Those who enter the field […]
Symbaroum at Gen Con
Approximate time to read: 1 minutes. It’s just over a week until Gen Con. While I never expected it to happen, I will be attending this […]
The Mythology of Symbaroum
Approximate time to read: 4 minutes. The mythology of Symbaroum lies in the hands of the GM. When you really consider the nature of the world […]
The Smart Party
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Arrows and Quivers
Approximate time to read: 3 minutes. The business of arrows and quivers in Symbaroum doesn’t seem ready to slink into the background. In a Reddit discussion […]
N is for Nihilism
Approximate time to read: 3 minutes. The prospect of having a game that embraces nihilistic behaviour isn’t too far from the core of Symbaroum. From the […]
M is for Mounts
Approximate time to read: 3 minutes. Out of the unimaginable blackness beyond the gangrenous glare of that cold flame, out of the Tartarean leagues through which […]
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 […]
K is for King’s Isles
Approximate time to read: 4 minutes. The enigma of Davokar is not confined to the depths of the dark region to the north or the puncture […]
J is for Jokes
Approximate time to read: 6 minutes. Setting the mood for your games of Symbaroum makes all the difference, given the general tone of dark fantasy communicated […]
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 […]
H is for Hex Mapping
Approximate time to read: 5 minutes. Within the Symbaroum Core Book you have enough background within the first 70-pages or so to get you up and running, […]
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 […]
F is for Faceless Horde
Approximate time to read: 4 minutes. I saw a small black aperture, felt a ghoulish wind of ice, and smelled the charnel bowels of a putrescent […]
E is for the Ever Realm
Approximate time to read: 3 minutes. Ambra sits on the north coast, less than 100 miles from the north-western fringe of Davokar, where the trees literally […]
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 […]
C is for Collector of Faces
Approximate time to read: 4 minutes. A new world of redness and darkness, A horrible coma call’d living The false, hollow phantoms of beauty That cloak […]
No Unpleasant Surprises
Approximate time to read: 3 minutes. Newcomers to any game have a lot of questions to ask and I hope those who already play those games can […]
What’s a Scene?
Approximate time to read: 2 minutes. The basis of an adventure in Symbaroum, a Scene stands as a means to determine the ‘value’ of an adventure […]
Le Pacte De Fer
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 […]
