Against The Wicked City

When I finished my Team Tsathogga campaign back in 2019, one of the things that I noted afterwards was the extent to which fighters had stru...

One of the players in my City of Spires campaign recently commissioned a collection of character art for the party from Autumal Bloomer, of ...

Severed Fane asked for a 'small campaign bible' for my current campaign, City of Spires, which shares a setting with my previous Tea...

First up, a brief announcement: the kickstarter for Knock! issue three has now gone live, packed with material from the old-school blogosphe...

This post is about a situation that arose in a recent session. One of my players suggested that I post it, and I thought it might be of inte...

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. - Samuel Beckett Learning to run an RPG, like most things, is mostly...

'The Ruin' is a fragmentary Old English poem in the Exeter Book, written by an unknown Saxon poet contemplating the ruins of a Roman...

We played another session of City of Spires last night. Various things happened - barge sabotage, crop burning, resume faking, Crime Tribe d...

As I mentioned in my last post, one of my objectives for 'City of Spires' was to create a version of ATWC with a lower barrier to en...

There's a  city  over the mountains. The people call it the  City   of   Spires . In the days  of  your great-grandparents it was rich a...