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Month: May 2011

I got cited!

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Barwickian

No, not for the blog – at this stage in a young blog’s life, regular readers are as rare as unicorns (maybe I can catch some with a virgin). Nope.

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Hida Province map

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Barwickian

This is a work in progress – the province-level map for the Chrysanthemum War campaign. I’m drawing this with Campaign Cartographer 3 and Fractal Terrains 2.3, both from Profantasy Software.

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The Chrysanthemum War: a short campaign idea

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Barwickian

After a discussion with my buddy Cameo Mo, I’m working on a short campaign to run during Ramadan, when we hope to persuade some of the card-playing suhoor crowd from

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Sengoku-era Honshu

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Barwickian

Here’s a work in progress for a game I’m planning to run during Ramadan, a few weeks hence. I’m slowly refining my technique for creating shaded relief maps in Campaign

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A medieval journey

Posted on May 15, 2011 by Barwickian

I recently found copies of the first two volumes of James E. Thorold Rogers’ A History of Agriculture and Prices in England (the first two volumes cover 1259-1400). I found

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Steampunk archetypes

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Barwickian

Stephen A Watkins has a nice little rundown of the steampunk equivalents of traditional fantasy archetypes at Fantasy magazine’s website here. Reading it makes me wonder of there’s scope for

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Chivalry & Sorcery PDFs available

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Barwickian

Update, January 2020: A brand-new edition of Chivalry & Sorcery – the 5th Edition – is now available in PDF, and I’ve had a hand in designing it.  Britannia Games

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Games, plots and the death of Bin Laden

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Barwickian

“It was agreed, that my endeavors should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic, yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest

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