fragments of a blue ruin
Hello everyone, just a quick note to make everyone aware that musician Out On Our Own, who is a player in my Sunday night Vaarn campaign, is making a very limited quantity of cassette tapes of his album of Vaults of Vaarn inspired music. I think this is going to be really cool, a bit… Continue reading LIMITED EDITION VAARN TAPES
Hello everyone, after two months of writing and drawing, the second issue of my zine Vaults of Vaarn has been released! Issue #2 Includes: Information and background on the city of Gnomon: what it looks like, how it feels to walk through its streets, and why your players might visit the city.Seven major NPCs who influence… Continue reading VAULTS OF VAARN #2 RELEASE
Issue two of Vaults of Vaarn is very nearly finished and should be releasing in the next two weeks. I wanted to show a spread I've been working on, to give you an idea of what to expect in the full release. This is one of the double-page spreads that lets you generate a faction… Continue reading NOBLE HOUSES OF GNOMON
Beyond the canted slopes of the Rusthollow Hills, three days’ ride past the abandoned Freekeep of Lyre, across the dust-scrawled ghost of a river that died so many ages ago that none recall its name, you will find a chapel sacred to those who ruled this land when our ancestor’s ancestors were not yet born. … Continue reading CHAPEL OF THE VOID SAINTS
I recently ran a full playthrough of 'The Crimson Countess', a scenario I'm planning to include with the core rules of Bloodheist, my upcoming vampire heist game. I designed the scenario to be reasonably straightforward to run, without too many locations or named characters. The set-up is that the party are deposited in Mountberg, a… Continue reading Bloodheist: Playtest I
Gnomon is the gaudy jewel of Vaarn’s southern badlands, the city of a thousand shaded bazaars; a thirsty, bustling morass of dusty courtyards and guild halls and artisans’ workshops. If there’s something to be sold in Vaarn, then Gnomon is the place to buy it. Everything within the crumbling blue walls of the city has… Continue reading DISTRICTS OF GNOMON
Once again, it's been a while since we did one of these. I've only played intermittently over the last month, due to life getting in the way and technical challenges. However the story of Vaarn has advanced slightly. In the last episode, our cast of scoundrels intervened in a tense standoff between Hegemony soldiers and… Continue reading VAARN ACTUAL PLAY: EPISODES 17 & 18
Just a quick update to make readers aware of two awesome fan projects relating to the blue ruins of Vaarn. Firstly, Leeds-based musician Out On Our Own has recorded an instrumental album based around our ongoing campaign, which you can listen to free on bandcamp! I posted this earlier in the year, but there are… Continue reading VAARN FAN CONTENT
We are back for a few updates on Bloodheist. The ruleset posted yesterday was not entirely complete, as it lacked specifics on Follies and Dooms. Fear not, because this post has you covered. FOLLIES A Folly is triggered whenever a character reaches 3 on their Doom track. They represent the negative effects of gathering Doom… Continue reading Bloodheist: Folly and Doom
It is the 131st year in the reign of the Red Emperor, May He Live Ten Thousand Lifetimes. From smog-bound London to the furthest reaches of the Undying Empire, humanity lives and dies at the pleasure of the Vampire Houses. They rule not from the shadows but openly and proudly, and they are served by… Continue reading Bloodheist: Intro
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