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Review: Champions Character Creation Cards

Posted on March 30, 2020 by Barwickian

I’m a huge fan of the Hero System (a tabletop roleplaying game for those wandering souls who’ve found this blog without knowing much about tabletop RPGs). Hero is not the

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Homosexuality in the Middle Ages

Posted on February 5, 2020 by Barwickian

In Chivalry & Sorcery 5th Edition we referred briefly to medieval attitudes towards homosexuality and to an active gay scene in the 11th and 12th centuries. This article explores homosexuality

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Genderqueer people in the Middle Ages

Posted on January 8, 2020 by Barwickian

One aspect of the diversity of medieval life we did not address in Chivalry & Sorcery 5th Edition concerns genderqueer people. This article is intended to correct that omission, in

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Diversity, historical accuracy and Chivalry & Sorcery

Posted on January 6, 2020 by Barwickian

Common factoids (things that look like facts but aren’t) about the Middle Ages are that people of colour didn’t exist in medieval Europe, that women didn’t fight (or do much

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C&S 5th Edition: one designer’s notes

Posted on December 30, 2019 by Barwickian

I really don’t need an excuse not to update this blog, as I can go years without posting. But for what it’s worth, the last few months have been taken

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Chivalry & Sorcery 5th Edition Kickstarter: Nightwalkers

Posted on July 4, 2019 by Barwickian

The Kickstarter campaign for Chivalry & Sorcery 5th Edition is well underway, and I’m proud to be associated with it. It achieved funding in less than 16 hours and, as

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Dangerous Journeys: Mythus revisited

Posted on June 22, 2016 by Barwickian

About three years ago I wrote a post about my love-hate relationship with Dangerous Journeys, the game Gary Gygax designed after leaving TSR. Since then I’ve had the pleasure of

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Basic Hex and Square Grids

Posted on November 1, 2015 by Barwickian

Update: Added one-inch square grids in European and US paper sizes. One of my colleagues in the Gulf Roleplaying Community was looking for some hex grids to print out, so

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Review: Dave Gross, Lord of Runes (Pathfinder Tales)

Posted on September 1, 2015 by Barwickian

Lord of Runes is without question the best piece of tie-in fiction I’ve read. It’s an excellent fantasy novel in its own right. Before I further explore why I think

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E-Z Dungeon: construction review

Posted on June 6, 2015 by Barwickian

I’ve been papercrafting for a week or two And I’ve spent all me money on craft knives and glue… I’ve become increasingly involved with miniature-based roleplaying games, largely down to

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