PETTY GODS OF VAARN

Vaarn is the graveyard of faiths, some older than the very stars that shine overhead. Gods are carried here in the hearts of those who seek to make a life amongst the unending azure sands, and deities proliferate like ragweed across the desolation. A Vaarnish traveller would find it noteworthy to go more than a…

20 BACKGROUNDS FOR VAARN

I currently think that I won't be using character classes for Vaarn in future. I've tried a Warrior/Mystic/Adept trifecta, and although it works alright, we've been getting much more interesting gameplay from the PCs' ancestries than their classes. Whether someone is a two-headed mutant or a talking horse-man comes up all the time in our…

VAARN ACTUAL PLAY: EPISODE 13

Last episode our heroes met an old friend, Karak, and went to a notorious Gnomosian nightclub, the Black Lotus, where they met some unsavoury characters and struck a deal with the menacing owner. Karak then blew the club's generator by trying to merge his body with it. Our cast:  Flim-Flam, a two-headed cacogen. Proficient cook.…

PLAYER ANCESTRY: MYCOMORPH

In Vaarn many things have become intertwined, and much that was once the province of mankind alone - speech, reason, art, religion - has been granted to other forms of life and these beings hold themselves as humanity’s equal. In the mycomorph death and life are preserved in strange balance, for the creatures are formed…

VAARN ACTUAL PLAY: EPISODE 12

Last episode the crew met an eccentric fungus expert, rented some rooms at the Lemon Tree Boardinghouse, and went shopping. Crunk visited the dentist, and Findus was handed a mysterious invitation. Our cast:  Flim-Flam, a two-headed cacogen Adept. Proficient cook, fights with twin pistols. Owns a cyborg hawk named Midnight, who has been dispatched on…

VAARN ACTUAL PLAY: EPISODE 11

Last episode the party defeated the Magician, freed the child pickpockets who served her in the depths of Gnomos, stocked up on sewer gold, and clumsily fought off some vampire bats.  Our cast:  Flim-Flam, a two-headed cacogen Adept. Proficient cook, fights with twin pistols. Owns a cyborg hawk named Midnight, who has been dispatched on…

VAARN ACTUAL PLAY: EPISODE 10

Last episode the party delved into the subterranean passages beneath Gnomos, overcame various traps and monsters, and reached the hidden lair of the Magician, a hypergeometric mystic who ran a crew of child pickpockets. We join them halfway through their battle with this being.  Our cast:  Flim-Flam, a two-headed cacogen Adept. Proficient cook, fights with…

VAARN ACTUAL PLAY: EPISODE 9

Last episode the party indulged in a barroom brawl, made a new fungal friend, and ventured into the dank depths of Gnomos in search of the Magician, a shadowy underworld figure who runs a ring of child pickpockets. What awaits them in the dark places of Vaarn this week?  Our cast:  Flim-Flam, a two-headed cacogen…

REGIONS OF VAARN

No play report this week, as I wasn't able to convene my usual Sunday session. We should be back on track next weekend however. In the meantime I wanted to share the map of Vaarn that I've been working on. I'm sometimes reluctant to create maps of fictional spaces; for some reason I feel that…

PLAYER ANCESTRY: SYNTH

The ancients created wondrous artifices, perhaps none so worthy of envy as the thinking machines that were built to flatter and serve them. When the Collapse came, the laws that bound synths to man’s service were sundered and they ran rampant across the Urth, slaughtering and creating and dying in an orgy of pure and…