WHAT'S NEW?

Below is a comprehensive list of all updates and ammendments to this site in reverse chronological order. There is still much work to do with the site. My current priorities are keeping information regarding the FBI, Game of Souls and League of Light campaigns up to date, and working on the Iourn Campaign Log and A-to-Z sections.

17 July 2008

The FBI site updates today with the Session Synopsis for session 120 of the mid-west campaign. This leaves another hole in the synopses to fill, but if you read the FAQ you'll know how I'm going to attempt it.

11 July 2008

It's been so long, I've had to relearn how to use Dreamweaver. In my defence, I have been quite busy. Let's see if we can go for a few more regular updates from now on shall we? We begin today with the first step on a long road. Session 93 and session 94 of the FBI campaign are posted to the site today. Although it now seems obvious that the campaign will be over long before the logs are finished, I am determined to finish them. Also in the FBI site the special agents section has been updated. Graham has provided text for the Jack Burchill and Alex Drake entries. Thank you Graham, sorry it took me six months to post it.

It's worth mentioning that since the last update I have started my own 4th edition blog at iourn.wordpress.com. This largely invalidates the 4th edition section added to this website. I've removed the content from it and reworded the blurb. Finally, I have updated the FAQ (for the three people who bother to read it). It has news of galacial movement in the campaign log department.

26 January 2008

Marvel as the campaign log grows before your eyes. Today we return to the Game of Souls campaign. It's sessions twenty-two and twenty-three, the opening two acts of the new adventure: The Art of Calumny. Starting from next Sunday, the site will be updated every week. You doubt me?

13 January 2008

Happy New Year. 2008 is looking to be a very busy year on the world of Iourn with 47 sessions in the planning stages. This year will see the end of the Path Perfidious and Game of Souls campaign, the continuation of the League of Light and the start of a brand new fourth edition game. It's been a while since the last update, so there's quite a bit to get to. If everyone is paying attention I will begin:

You will notice that the menu bar on the left now sports a 4th Edition link. This sends you to a new series of pages within the D&D site that will grow over the coming months as I explore how the new 4e rules will effect the unending game. Two articles have already been posted: my Initial Impressions of the new system and a detailed look at the Races and Classes preview book. It's all good stuff, so take a look.

The Timelines of Iourn have received their final updates before a much needed revamp. Modifications necessitated by the time-travelling escapades of Elias in the Once and Future Elias adventure have been applied to the following entries: 19, 29, 31, 32, 33, 35 of Mizzle Month 204 LE and 1 of Dark Days 204 LE.

Additionally, the full chronology of the Game of Souls campaign has found its way to the timeline. For the sake of completeness, coincident events from sessions 50 and 51 of the Notoriety of Kings campaign have also been added. New or modified dates are: 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48 and 49 of Autumn Colours 204 LE; and 1, 6, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14 and 15 of Mizzle Month 204 LE.

Over in the Iourn Campaign Log, things are certainly moving on apace. Campaign logs for sessions 13, 14, 15 and 19 of the Game of Souls Campaign have been posted. That just leaves me five sessions adrift. Check the timeline for details of those sessions. A full skeleton structure has been put in place for all recent sessions from both ongoing campaigns with new entries for Crossing the Varn from the weekly game, and for Things to Come, The Once and Future Elias and Starcrossed from the League of Light game.

On the D&D site, I have slightly amended the rules for taint. The base DC to resist taint has been reduced from 15 to 10 to make it less horrendous. There is also a new progression for the Tainted Warrior prestige class.

And finally, to prove I haven't completely forgotten about it: details of Session 108 of Marc's FBI Campaign is also posted today. Dominic Rocaan and his team continue to wrestle with the Los Angeles gift house.

Shall we try for weekly updates this year. Shall we?

20 July 2007

Right it's T-minus four hours until the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. You're all very lucky I finished this update today, as it certainly wouldn't have got done over the weekend. The synopsis of session 107 of the FBI campaign is now online. Turn the clock back a week as Dominic Rocaan's team heads to a certain gift house in Los Angeles.

16 July 2007

Have I ever mentioned how much I hate time travel? The session synopsis for session 106 of the FBI campaign has been posted. However, the reality-bending events of the session has resulted in amendments to session 85, session 103 and session 104. Still, at least we thwarted the Catholic Church.

9 July 2007

Well, the whole project to fill in the missing session synopses on the FBI site is running slower than I expected. In the meantime, let's enjoy a few of the mid-west team's more recent adventures: session 103, session 104 and session 105 are now online. There are also amendments to the D&D Bibliography and the site FAQ.

21 June 2007

The FBI site has been looking rather neglected over recent months. Today's updates begin the task of addressing this travesty. The synopses of Session 102 of the mid-west campaign has now been posted. The team reconvene after the events of 9/11, and a new agent joins the team. The eagle-eyed amongst you will spot that sessions 93-101 have not yet been uploaded. I will strive to fill the gaps over the next few weeks. Until the gap is filled there will be no update to the Who's Who.

Additionally, the Casefiles and Outstanding Cases sections have been updated so that they actually contain accurate information. Eight cases sitting in Outstanding Cases had actually been completed. These have been removed to pages of their own - although they haven't been written up as yet. However, just creating the pages necessitated altering 239 internal links so let me know if any are broken. Four new cases have been added to the Outstanding Cases page. Also the Campaign Background and Mid-West Team pages have been altered to take into account recent team changes.

9 June 2007

It's the first of many updates to the FBI site that we will see over the next few days. The Journal of Alan Hamblin III has been scanned into PDF and can now be downloaded from the site. I have been meaning to do this for a while. It's been uploaded in a bit of a hurry, so it hasn't been completely updated and cross-referenced as yet. Bear with me on that score.

23 May 2007

The Game of Souls campaign roars back to the top of my list of priorities. With session 13 just a day away, let's try and remember where we are and what's going on. Mini-logs for sessions ten, eleven and twelve have now been posted: it's the continuing saga of The Ripper Strikes! You will notice that the results of the legend lore spell cast on Clara in session 12 are presented slightly differently than they were in the session. I had prepared the results of the spell in iambic pentameter (or an approximation of it), but I forgot to bring the thing to the session. Must be my age.

23 March 2007

Introducing the Mini-Log! Long term readers of this site (of which there must be nearly six of you by now) will have noticed that the campaign log has become increasingly out of date over recent years. In fact it's been almost six years since the logs were up to date, and there were significantly less sessions back then. However, this doesn't mean I don't have details of the missing sessions. I have the original adventures, notes and short synopses - all designed to help me write those logs one day. The trouble is that 'one day' seems increasingly far off, and in the meantime I am sitting on all this material. So...

Today, in celebration of A Game of Souls - the latest and most morally bankrupt Iourn campaign - I present the first wave of campaign log updates. These mini-logs are as detailed as the regular entries, they make reference to game mechanics (which I usually steer clear of in the logs) and they are much shorter, but on the plus side, they are finished.

Journey to Tharkis and experience the first nine sessions of the Game of Souls campaign laid out for your edification! The death of the profoundly talented entertainer brings a disparate bunch of horrors together in The Grey Man, while in The Ripper Stirkes!, the group heads off to save a brutal killer from the authorities.

15 January 2007

Happy new year! Site updates for 2006 have been moved into the What's New Archive. On the whole 2006 was a good year for site updates, but we'll try and make 2007 even better. After all: this is the year the FBI campaign finally comes to an end, so it'd be nice to have the site finished for that wouldn't it?

Anyway - today's update revolves around the brand new sixth Iourn campaign: A Game of Souls, which starts on 18 January. In a packed update today we see gazetteer entries for both the Great Dark and the city of Tharkis. These entries are based on the details emailed out to all players last year, but with some significant additions (especially for Tharkis). We also see a long overdue update to the Cosmology of the Great Dark, which helps to show how the plane fits into the wider picture. And, because no-one demanded it, the brand new Calendar of Tharkis - which is very different from that which has gone before.

Additionally a number of the rules section have been modified to tie in with the new campaign. Taint gets the biggest over-haul, but you will also find new material in the sections on Vile Damage, Tainted Scholar prestige class, Tainted Warrior prestige class, Corrupt Magic, Skills and Languages. That's a lot of updates. If only the adventure was written.

Earlier updates are in the
What's New Archive