THE CRUELLEST MONTH IS UPON US! Cruel, but by no means less loved: all this fecund florabundance and accompanying cloying scent is energising, no matter T.S. Elliot has to say about it. By time of posting, we're ten sessions into our Exiles of a Thousand Islands campaign, recorded as part of...
***THIS POST WAS EDITED, 8th April 2026***I'm going to lead with link to The Bad Doctor's most recent post (at time of writing) which has some great advice I'm not going to follow. I mean, I am an actual robot, how am I to escape the destiny of my flesh-shell? As Beyoncé herself once said we are...
This is a report concerning the seventh session of Pariah: Exiles of a Thousand Islands, an old school sandbox game set in [a version of] the world of A Thousand Thousand Islands, as described in a series of zines and seminal adventure Reach of the Roach God, all by Zedeck Siew and...
Campaign '26 is a challenge issued by RPG blogger/epic poetry enthusiast N.Bateman in this post: in short, participants pledge to run or play a game for most of the year. I have sworn a sacred oath to run a PARIAH Campaign using the ATTI zines (and accompanying adventure, Reach of the Roach God)...
This is the PARIAH GENERATOR used for the Campaign '26 game I'm running. It's set up to generate either 1d4, 1d6 or 1d8 hit die pariahs, which has a corresponding effect on their likely background, traits and starting gear. As the campaign progresses I'll add backgrounds more tailored to A...
Campaign '26 is a challenge issued by RPG blogger/epic poetry enthusiast N.Bateman in this post: in short, participants pledge to run or play a game for most of the year. I have sworn a sacred oath to run a PARIAH Campaign using the ATTI zines (and accompanying adventure, Reach of the Roach God)...
First session report of this A Thousand Thousand Islands campaign, part of Campaign 26. Ornamental prowhead figures from Borneo via https://www.artoftheancestors.com/Players & charactersSix players + one GM met on discord at 8pm UTC to begin. Each player had previously generated one youth (in...
Contrary to popular belief, one can never start the year with too many challenges on the go. So whilst I watch City 26 gathering momentum with almost manic glee, I'm equally excited to pick up the gauntlet cast by N. Bateman in his Campaign ‘26 post.I intend to run a Pariah Campaign (sort of) set...