Lone Horizons

Just a quick note to say I've released a new zine, this time for Scarlet Heroes. It's called Under Western Skies and it's a series of weather events tables more suitable for a western European-style fantasy setting. There are tables for Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter instead of Wet, Cold and Dry seasons. You can download it for free or pay what you want from both Drivethru RPG and Itch.io. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/561032/under-western-skies https://lonehorizons.itch.io/under-western-skies

It's been quiet on the blog lately as parenting has taken up so much of my free time this year. I wanted to post a link to the full playlist of videos in my "How to Play Scarlet Heroes" series because I kept forgetting to post links to them each time one was published. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVO-BKbl8D70HIO0Ffi-dNXXYjeEsQYiU&si=1gE9fEp7m8UUqYpj The full list of episodes is here: Introduction & Character Creation Campaign Setting & Game Rules Combat Scenario Urban Adventures I Urban Adventures II Wilderness Adventures Dungeon Adventures Running a Published Adventure Solo Part 1 Running a Published Adventure Solo Part 2 One-On-One Actual Play: Stonehell Running a Published Adventure Solo Part 3

Note: For some ridiculous reason Blogspot has replaced the standard Helvetica typeface with the bold weight, so my whole blog has gone bold now. I'm going to leave it like this for the moment, hoping they'll fix whatever caused it. Seriously though, I hate this bloody stupid old site. It feels ancient and bugged to hell. I'm strongly considering switching to Substack soon if I can figure out how it works. Tarnen, a wandering adventurer is  trying to solve the mystery of how an unemployed ropemaker, Anmah Yarvan was killed on the roadside south of the city of Queenstead. Faval, the gardener from the local temple of Asoth has accompanied him to a small forest outside the city to find a mysterious ranger who might be able to uncover clues as to what killed Yarvan. Scene 5 (Continued) | Tanglewood Forest, The Downs | Year 645, 2nd of 7th Month | Chaos Factor: 5 We begin this session in combat with the wolf. Entering combat! In the midst of the gale, Tarnen swings his sword at t...

Tarnen, a wandering adventurer is  trying to solve the mystery of how an unemployed ropemaker, Anmah Yarvan was killed on the roadside south of the city of Queenstead. Faval, the gardener from the local temple of Asoth has accompanied him to a small forest outside the city to find a mysterious ranger who might be able to uncover clues as to what killed Yarvan. Scene 5 (Continued) | Tanglewood Forest, The Downs | Year 645, 2nd of 7th Month | Chaos Factor: 5 We're still in the midst of the delve (taken from Ironsworn rules) but since I've played five sessions now I'm going to give Tarnen some experience rolls. The GM gets to decide how many each player gets but the rules recommend between 2 and 4, modified by the character's Experience Modifier, which for Tarnen is +1. I'm going to give him 1D3+1 rolls: 2. I'll choose the skills myself as per the rules. Experience Roll: Perception D100 result: 72 (+16 INT) = 88 vs 25% Perception skill. Perception increases by 1D4+...

I've been away from the blog for a while for various reasons but here's a summary of what I've been getting up to and what I've got planned for the YouTube channel in the near future.

Tarnen, a wandering adventurer is  trying to solve the mystery of how an unemployed ropemaker, Anmah Yarvan was killed on the roadside south of the city of Queenstead. Faval, the gardener from the local temple of Asoth has accompanied him to a small forest outside the city to find a mysterious ranger who might be able to uncover clues as to what killed Yarvan.  Scene 5 | Tanglewood Forest, The Downs | Year 645, 2nd of 7th Month | Chaos Factor: 5 For this scene we'll use the Ironsworn: Delve rules to make a forest "dungeon" that Tarnen and Faval will have to traverse to reach the ranger's cabin. I won't do a whole tutorial on Ironsworn: Delve here but I'll do my best to briefly explain each gameplay mechanic as we encounter it. I've picked the Wild theme and the Tanglewood domain, so we should face the kind of dangers you'd find in a dark forest. It'll be a troublesome site so we'll fill in three progress boxes out of ten for each area we travel...