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
Monstrous Traits
Should Monstrous Traits be more generic? I had that strange thought the other day while looking through some of the reference material I’ve already created. […]
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 […]
Who You Know
While the Contacts Trait appears in the Symbaroum Core Book as a Trait, generally associated with the player’s choice of race for their character, in […]
Favor and Disfavor
Symbaroum has a simple system for handling the challenges presented to characters. When challenged directly, players roll against one of their Attributes modified by the […]
This and That
The session of Symbaroum I ran over the weekend, for Free RPG Day at Fanboy 3, was unashamedly lighter and less grim that those I normally […]
Wrath of the Warden – Day 2
I almost feel I have always been reading and playing Symbaroum. I find it a bit hard to believe that I only picked up the […]
The Wrath of the Warden
Today at 19:00 Central European Time, the Järnringen team will be kicking off their fundraiser for Thistle Hold – Wrath of the Warden. Thistle Hold […]
Somewhat Friendly
I have had a request for Printer Friendly versions of the Symbaroum Reference Sheets. I have done what I can, but in certain instances, the content […]
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 […]
Heirlooms and Legacies
The Player’s Handbook offers the option to enhance your starting equipment with an Heirloom. Essentially, you can choose a weapon or piece of armor to […]
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 […]
W is for the Watch
The Queen’s Watch serves a purpose as close to general policing as to be the ideal real world comparison, but really they have little in […]
U is for Undead
Death is not an option. Or, at least, sometimes you don’t want it to be something thrust upon a player when you’re only an hour […]
L is for Lindaros
I feel like the timeline might serve as a theme for a couple of days, because while just a small part of the Symbaroum Core […]
K is for Korinthia’s Captivity
When I first picked up Symbaroum and started reading it, I started from the back of the book. I worked my way through the adventure […]
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 […]
H is for Hardship
Those who fail in their service to the Queen quickly find that their punishment means hard work rather than time spent lazing in a cell. […]
G is for Goyl
Out of what crypt they crawl, I cannot tell, But every night I see those stony things, Jet black, horned, and slender, malignant things, They […]
F is for Forest
The tracks and trails of Bright Davokar offer a balance of plenty and peril. The traveler or treasure-seeker in these outer regions has a fair chance […]