Statue of Väinämöinen decorating the Old Student House in Helsinki. I was blogging while writing Seith and Sword and an astute reader...

Picture from Here: https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/became-mad/ Kiah wasn't part of this fight, as such everything was...

Picture from here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/12458915605/in/album-72157659990533249/ A struggle of magic. I am rather...

Picture from: https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/would-call-aloud/ I expected most of this, except for Kiah's last...

Picture from: https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/11105001204/in/album-72157639804554423/ And so the name of this actual play...

Picture from here: https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/shepherdess/ Some journalling games offer a series of paths and...

Image from: https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/11039427914/in/album-72157639804990613/ I decided to write Tales of the Haunted...

Image from: https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/ring-upon-hand/ Battle is perhaps the most exciting move in Ironsworn. One...

The form of Serene's curse is not what I expected, but still pretty cool. She's jumping to using it right away because of Kayan...

Most of this was Oracle Checks, it's neat how a handful of rolls can reveal threads in the game that I never expected. (Did Solana...

I'm happy Kiah met with her father and brother. She might not have, if so, the later part of this session would have been finding a boat....

I had a solid idea of what would happen before I started this session, so I guess this is more a visual novel than a standard Ironsworn...

Progress on Orboboros, the Brick Kingdom is going well, I've nearly finished the rules section and will soon fill out the adventure...

Things are heating up in the Barrier Isles. I'm kind of worried that Great Mount will fall, that would certainly take this game in a...

My previous Norse fiction writing is definitely affecting this playthrough. In my Ironsworn there are no inns or taverns; one simply...

I recently got this feedback on Reddit, and it filled me with joy: Hi, I tried to leave a comment on the blog but couldn't for whatever...

So I attended CanGames this weekend and ran a little Orboboros. It went well, it went really well. So well, in fact, that at every game,...

[Oracle Grandmother's Next Lesson - Uphold, Ability] [Sorjurn: Weak Hit] Winter progressed and ice bobbed between the Barrier Isles....

This session determined two things. A) Kiah's grandmother is basically a Sith, and B) magic is most useful when it's used to fill one...

One of my earliest childhood memories was visiting my grandfather in Garden Hill. Chateau Challice was a white farmhouse, windmill,...