Symbaroum Reference Cards – Part 1
As I GM across diverse gaming groups I find, time and again, players that sit in defined roles. One of those likes to have access […]
Symbaroum
The Mountain Pass Hex Map
The events of The Promised Land deal with a perilous journey through the Titans; as an introductory adventure, it handles the passage through The Mountain […]
Rough Travel in Symbaroum
It’s dangerous to go alone… Take this bit of advice and work with it. The lands of Ambria might seem settled and welcoming, but nothing […]
Encounters in the Dark
Quite early in my interest for the Symbaroum RPG I had a stab at translating the reference sheets that came with the (no longer available) […]
Thorns and Brambles
The Sea of Thorns lies to the east of Gaoia in the dark heart of Davokar. Roughly 60 kilometers in diameter, the great mass of […]
GM Kit for Symbaroum
I can see a fair few sessions of Symbaroum coming up over the next several months, with various conventions and demo games. I’m confirmed to […]
The Nature of Davokar
Reading through On the Nature of Davokar, available for free on RPGNow and elsewhere, I find my eye tripping over keywords and phrases, wishing to […]
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 […]
Snow Jackals
In the process of looking at the Symbaroum game in general, and developing the Mountain Pass area in particular, I felt I needed to expand […]
Dry Wipe to Davokar
The game of Symbaroum takes place in a savage landscape of wilderness, ancient ruins, barbarians, creeping darkness and hardy survivors. Fertile lands sandwiched between mountains and […]
Coughs and Sneezes
I have been reading through the Symbaroum core book and picking up areas that warrant more detail – or where adding more detail makes sense […]
Travel through The Titans
Travel through the great peaks of The Titans is not a matter for the faint-hearted or the ill-prepared. The events in The Promised Land highlight […]
Challenge and Resistance
Encounters can never be an exact science. Certainly you should never just guess nor take a printed adventures word for the size of the challenge […]
Symbaroum Typeface
Symbaroum uses several different typefaces, but none of them are free to use. If you want to create your own content and keep to the […]
Ansel Redefined
Google+ user Sushi Bacon highlighted concerns about the Defense score for pre-generated character Ansel, the Theurg of the Church of Prios, from the Symbaroum Core […]
The Practice of Alchemy
Alchemy – the practice of the preparation of elixirs – does not conform to or depend upon the strictures and dictats of a certain Tradition […]
Symbaroum Reference Sheets
Version 2 of the Symbaroum Reference Sheets – slimmed down to three A4-sheets from the original four I had to start. The sheets cover: – […]
Symbaroum at Conception 2016
I ran two games of Symbaroum at Conception (at Hoburne Park holiday resort, a short distance from Christchurch, Dorset) this weekend based on adventures of my […]
The World of Symbaroum
Symbaroum is a role-playing game that takes place in a troubled world, filled with conflict, corruption and forgotten truths. The game takes it’s name from […]
