WHAT'S NEW ARCHIVE

This section includes all the updates made to the site prior to 14 January 2007. They are again listed in reverse chronological order. I have taken the time to go back and add the hyperlinks that got lost in the site relaunch. They may not point to quite the same pages anymore but the thought is there. As the current What's New? page becomes too full, entries will be transferred to this page.

27 November 2006

Just for the sake of keeping things up to date the page on the Mid-West Team has been amended with details of the twenty-fourth incarnation of the team. Look for more FBI updates next week.

The meat of today's update is actually over on the Iourn site. The Timelines of Iourn get their first addition in six months. The events of the last five sessions of the League of Light campaign are now up for your edification. The Chosen of Narramac traverse Norandor and are on the verge of making progress when Ravenna quite deliberately sends Nicos one thousand miles in the wrong direction. The minx. Updates to entries in Stormtide 205 LE, starting with the 17th.

6 November 2006

At last, I finally find the time to update sections of the FBI site that have been festering for months. The Campaign Background is brought smack up to date, with lists of all the new agents and new teams. Equally the overviews of the West Coast Team and Mid-West Teams have also been updated. Did you know there have been twenty-three different versions of the mid-west team since the campaign began? Also updated is the Special Agents section, with some pictures gracing the casefiles of Elijah Stone and Ugly Joe McPike. Finally, the Casefiles see an update courtesy of Geoff, as the North-West team's first two cases are posted to the site. Sit back and enjoy "Elvis versus the Hippies" and "Terror on Kodiak Island"!

1 November 2006

Ah, it is nice to get the update done early in the week. Session ninety-two of the ongoing midwest campaign has been uploaded to the FBI site. There's also a minor Who's Who Update.

30 October 2006

The FBI site enjoys a healthy update, as details of sessions eighty-eight, eighty-nine, ninety and ninety-one of the mid-west campaign appear in the Synopses section. As always, the Who's Who has also been updated and is now up to 791 entries. We also see a tiny amount of work elsewhere in the site with an amendmen to the Outstanding Cases page.

29 September 2006

It's FBI update time again as the synopses of sessions eighty-six and eighty-seven are uploaded to the site. Also enjoy the modified Who's Who, now up to 768 entries.

6 September 2006

Told you so. A happy update to the FBI Site to day as I present the synopsis of session 85, and the Who's Who is amended to include characters and events from sessions 78-85.

5 September 2006

Darnit, looks as though I missed staying on a monthly schedule for another year. However, September looks as though it could be a month of multiple updates so stay tuned and try not to get too excited. Today, we see some small modifications to the FAQ, as well as some tweaking to the format of the Iourn campaign logs in the wake of the end of the Crucible of Youth campaign and the latest installments of the League of Light. Certain players might also want to have a look at this. However, by far the largest updates are reserved for the FBI site:

We have new synopses posted for sessions seventy-eight, seventy-nine, eighty, eighty-one, eighty-two, eighty-three and eighty-four of the mid-west campaign! All the excitement of Operation: Certain Death, the murder of Peter Ellis Dean finally gets the attention it deserves and then Jane makes a deal with the devil - quite literally as it turns out.

I wasn't present at the game for sessions 78 or 82, so if anyone notices any glaring inaccuracies in my accounts of those sessions then do please let me know!

17 July 2006

Okay, I admit defeat. After almost three years I have finally given up trying to keep the FBI timeline in chronological order. I persisted through the erratic narrative, I embraced time travel and visions of days that never were, but enough is enough. Incorporating the activities of the north-east and north-west teams is too much for the current structure to bear. As a result, I have rewritten the old FBI Timeline along the lines of the Iourn Campaign Log. Each individual session now has its own entry, while a separate chronological list has been created elsewhere.

In short, the old Timeline of Events has become the new Session Synopses, and the old Session Synopses has become the new Timeline of Events. Confused? You should be. Work on the new timeline is ongoing, and currently only September 2000, October 2000 and November 2000 have been posted. More is forthcoming. I have painstakingly gone through the site and amended all the old links, but if you spot any I have missed please let me know. To soften the blow slightly, I present some new synopses in the shape of session 76 and session 77 of the mid-west campaign.

22 June 2006

The FBI site updates again, this time with details of session 75 and the accompanying amendments to the Who's Who. The revelations in this session necessite major changes to the casefiles. That work is pending.

20 June 2006

Black is back! The FBI site gets a substantial update today. The Timeline of Events sees new entries for sessions 72, session 73 and session 74 of the ongoing campaign. Additionally the Who's Who and Campaign Background sections also boast new material. Plus, Hamblin's Hieroglyphs finally get an accurate translation thanks to Marc Georgeson.

The events of these three sessions also necessitates a mighty update to the casefiles of many cases we thought we closed. This hasn't happened during this update. Fingers crossed for the next one!

12 May 2006

In the aftermath of the Second Roleplaying Retreat, we have a substantial update to the site. The FAQ has been updated, and there has been a bit of housekeeping going on behind the scenes including skeleton entries for all sessions uploaded to the campaign log and a revised bibliography.

It is the Timeline of Events that has seen the greatest attention. It has been updated to include all events from the League of Light campaign, as well as the adventures of Syrah Pendragon as reported to the Chosen of Narramac during the course of their adventures. The following months have been revised or newly posted: Chillbone 204, First Snow 204, Midwinter 204, Deep Drift 204, Coldsorrow 204, Ember Eve 204, New Year 205, Crispeven 205 and Stormtide 205.

For those of you who want to keep track of exactly what Syrah was up to (as well as other alterations), these are the back entries that have been modified:

• Chillbone: 30th, 32nd, 33rd, 48th
• First Snow: 1st, 17th, 20th, 25th
• Frostbite: 14th
• Midwinter: 32nd, 33rd, 36th
• Deep Drift: 48th
• Coldsorrow: 5th, 47th
• Ember Eve: 1st
• New Year: 11th, 13th, 35th, 41st onwards

Finally, because you all demanded it, Alessandre's masterpiece The Ballad of Nicos Tannesh is also available for your edification. It appears in the History section (because I don't have a Propaganda section).

4 April 2006

The campaign log for session forty-nine of the Crucible of Youth campaign is now on-line. It's the third part of For Better or Worse! The Companions of Bear's Reach brave the Whittenwood in their quest to retrieve Kaleena Dyer from her true father. This will be the first of three updates to the log for the fourth campaign that will appear over the next couple of weeks.

31 March 2006

All change! After nearly six years this site has finally grown too large for Demon's webspace allocation, so we have moved. Thanks to Graham who is now hosting the site for me, and has increased my webspace by a factor of ten without even noticing. A new home comes with a new web address. From now till forever this site can be found at www.iourn.com. The original Teacosy site still exists, although it won't do much more than direct you to the new address for the foreseeable future. And, no I have no intention of removing references to the Teacosy or pictures of teacosies from this site. Maybe for the third version of the website - coming your way in 2009.

12 February 2006

The Timelines of Iourn have received a welcome update today. Additional entries have been added to Ember Eve 204 and New Year 205. This brings the entries for the League of Light campaign completely up to date.

Additionally, as that very campaign steers us back into the realm of Genbasson and werecreatures, I present the Moonhunter prestige class for edification and delight.

22 January 2006

Welcome to 2006. Site updates for 2005 have been removed to the What's New Archive. Let's start the new year as we mean to go on with some significant updates to the site. In addition to the FAQ (that I'm sure no-one reads) the following is new:

The FBI sub-site gets a major upload of information as details of the games we played over Christmas are added. Sessions sixty-eight, sixty-nine and seventy continue the adventures of the mid-west team (although they still haven't solved that body in the bayou case). Session seventy-one is a continuity implant as we finally go back see what happened to the west coast team when they took over the investigation of case 0015-GCF. In addition to the timeline, a full casefile to 0015-GCF is now online, as well as the normaly updates to the Who's Who. The sections on the mid-west and west-coast teams have also been updated.

As the second Roleplaying Retreat looms ever near and I attempt to keep my hasty promise of updating the League of Light campaign log, this will hopefully be the first of many updates over the next few weeks.

6 December 2005

My apologies for the delay in updating the site recently. A small technical glitch creating 11,500 broken links. Impressive, no? Anyway, I think they're all fixed now so on with the show. Today sees a new campaign log added to the site in the shape of session thirty-five of the Crucible of Youth campaign. Yes, I know it's hovering there in the middle of nowhere, but I'd written it so I thought I may as well post it.

27 September 2005

And lo, the campaign log is updated. With the second half of the Crucible of Youth campaign nearly upon us it is time to remind ourselves what happened in the first. On-line today are eight (yes, eight!) new logs from the first year of that campaign, encompassing four different adventures:

• Death and Taxes: the entire adventure, comprising logs for sessions two, three and four.
• A Murder of Crows: the beginning of the epic, comprising logs for sessions four (continued) and five.
• The Mother's Boy: session twenty-five (the grand finale!)
• The Quest for Galen Thorn: the opening of the latest opus: sessions twenty-five (continued), twenty-six, twenty-seven and twenty-eight.

My apologies for the enormous narrative leap between session five and session twenty-five. The gap will be plugged eventually; in the meantime you will have to rely on the timeline. The sessions that have been posted today contain information directly pertinent to the first few sessions of next term. And if that isn't a blatant clue, then I don't know what is.

Also today, is the last update to the FBI game for a little while. The timeline for session 67 of the mid-west campaign has now been posted, along with corresponding amendments in the Who's Who. This session sees the game go into hiatus for the next few months. For full details, see the FAQ.

15 September 2005

The FBI site updates with the timeline for session 66 and further additions to the Who's Who. This is the penultimate session of the current run. Two weeks until the return of the D&D game.

7 September 2005

Further updates to the FBI site. The terrible spectre of Time Travel has risen its head once more in the campaign, and therefore that section of the site has had an update (that I would live to see the day!) Drake's mucking about with the continuum has necessitated a slight rewrite of session 64, and a brand new timeline for session 65 has also been posted. In addition to this, the Who's Who is now brought firmly up to date.

5 September 2005

The Timeline of Events for the FBI site has finally been updated to cover sessions 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63 and 64. These sessions saw the first crossover between the mid-west and north-east evidence response teams, and featured a lengthy conversation with Archangel Raphael, who shed a 1000-watt halogen spotlight on many of the teams outstanding cases. All these sessions necessitate big updates the casefiles and Who's Who. I haven't got around to that quite yet, but they will not be long in coming. I have updated Hamblin's Hieroglyphs with the theories of Alex Drake.

As a note, I haven't added any information on the past cases of the north-west evidence response team yet. I'm still waiting for Marc to go through my interpretation of the notes and make any corrections. Hopefully we will see them on the site soon.

Meanwhile, over in the Dungeons and Dragons site, I amaze myself by keeping one Master List up to date. Prestige classes from Stormwrack and Explorer's Handbook have been added to the Master List of all Classes. Just ten more this time - perhaps things are finally slowing down.

25 July 2005

The Master List of all Classes has been updated once again. The following publications have been added to the list: City of Splendours: Waterdeep, Five Nations and Weapons of Legacy. I have also greatly overhauled the Bibliography page.

13 July 2005

Once more unto the updates, dear friends. You will be delighted to learn that the entry for session 57 of Marc's FBI campaign has now been posted. Naturally this is accompanied by the requisite modifications to the Who's Who. We also have slight changes to the Campaign Setting, as Marc invents yet another evidence response team.

The next FBI session will take place in two short days on Friday 15 July. However, the timeline of that session, as well as any further updates, may experience delays as I turn my full attention to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. I intend to read it before some bugger gives away the ending.

11 July 2005

In the D&D site: the Master List of all Classes has been updated to include the following publications: Complete Adventurer, Races of the Wild, Sandstorm, Lords of Madness, Races of Eberron, Champions of Ruin, Heroes of Battle and Dungeon Master's Guide II. That brings the total number of all classes to a mighty 561 (505 of which are Prestige Classes). There is also a small appendum to the entry for the Expert class.

Meanwhile, over in Evidence Response, the updates to the casefiles continue unabated. There are ammedments to these cases: WK001, 1097-IN1, WNT075, CS1473-IND, 0017-GCF, and 0019-GCF. There is also a brand new case, 0024-GCF, which finally chronicles the events at the Twin Valley Farm back in January 2001. That brings the Brain Bug plot and a few other things up to speed. Next, I tackle the Joker and Apache Joe!

6 July 2005

It's Wednesday night, so it must be website update night. The FBI Timeline has been updated to include events from Session 56 of the campaign. And for those of you who are counting: I'm not running a week behind, we just didn't play last week. There are also updates to the Who's Who, Campaign Background, Mid-west team and West-coast team. I have also begun updating the casefiles. Cases DL1034 and (the new) 0022-GCF tidy up the whole petrification and missing memories fiasco. More casefile updates soon.

Additionally, the Iourn Timeline of Events has been updated, with additions to the following months: First Snow 204 and Frostbite 204. This brings the timeline up to date with the latest session of the Crucible of Youth campaign.

3 July 2005

It's the update you never expected to see! The Campaign Log for Session 48 of the Notoriety of Kings Campaign is now on-line! It's the thirteenth installment of mammoth Seventh Sword adventure. The Chosen of Narramac leave Belsinor's Girdle for the horrors of the Southern World and soon find themselves exposed to the brutality of the Mannenites!

Additionally, we also have a small update to the FBI site. The Campaign Background as well as information on the Mid-West Team and West Coast Team has been updated. I am now working through some updates to the casefiles. Hopefully, these will see the light of day soon.

25 June 2005

Trust me. There is a great deal going on behind the scenes. This summer will see some substantial updates. Today's update brings the FBI site that much closer completion. We have a massive update to the Timeline which now includes details of sessions 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54 and 55! See the session synopses for more information. In addition to this the Who's Who has also been brought up to date. Expect more FBI updates soon.

1 May 2005

A little later than I would have liked, but here's a nice meaty update for the site - all of which pertains to my Iourn campaign. There's a fair amount happening behind the scenes at the moment so hopefully I will have another update for you quite soon. However, in this week's action packed addition:

• The Timeline of Events has been updated to include the down-time of the Chosen of Narramac during Winter 204. Also we now have an entry for Scatterseed 204. Reminisce about the campaigns of yesteryear as the events of Into the Wraith Haunt make the timeline. This is just the beginning of a series of more historical entries.
• The text of the Firewalker template has been modified to include some last minute changes I made before the start of the Roleplaying Retreat.
• The entry for Salmaynak in the Gazetteer section has been expanded to include some information on the six principalities.
• The Prophecies of Nallasean Etamyre have been uploaded to give you all something to think about.

25 March 2005

As a special Easter treat I added some small updates to the site. In addition to a new version of the FAQ being on-line, the Timeline of Events has now been updated to the end of session 20 of the Crucible of Youth campaign. I have also posted details on the Fire Eye prestige class and the elusive Firewalker. You never know how relevent all this could be for the Roleplaying Retreat.

15 March 2005

Well, two months between updates is better than three months. I'm up to my armpits in planning for April's Roleplaying Retreat so don't bug me about it, or your character could find himself on the business end of a pit fiend. Moving on....

The Timeline of Events has been substantially enlarged. It now covers events from the time the Chosen of Narramac entered the Greymere on 11 Mizzle Month 204, until the latest session of the most recent campaign. This update supercedes 'The Great Upheavel' that was posted way back in December 2002, and that timeline has now been deleted. The following months have been added or ammeneded:

• Kindlesmoke 204
• Late Harvest 204
• Mizzle Month 204
• Dark Days 204
• Baretwig 204
• Keenaxe 204
• Chillbone 204
• First Snow 204
• Blacknight 204
• Coldsorrow 204
• Ember Eve 204

To give you some idea of the enormity of this update, the timeline chronicled above draws together all the events from these adventures: The Empty Chair, Waiting for Mortis, The War of the Norandon Succession, The Rising Tide, The Gauntlet of Rammon Cha, The Fist of Maglubiyet, The Horn of Deliverance, The Song of Sarakite, The Search for Son, Family Affairs, The Painted Lady, Sharper than a Serpent's Tooth, The Sins of the Father, An NPC Adventure, Unto Us a Child is Born, The Last Good Day, Death and Taxes, A Murder of Crows, Flotsam and Jetsam, Apocalypse Rising, The Shelter of Stone, Down Among the Dead Men, Interview with the Vampire of Sorgar, Ill Met by Moonlight, The Fall of the House of Maerimydra and Three Parts of the Pattern.

That's twenty-six adventures from four campaigns plus one-offs... that's seventy-three sepearate sessions, 300 hours of continuous game play covering the adventures of 58 player characters (one in seven of which was a De Chesiré). I think I need to go and lie down.

But it doesn't stop there! We also have a new section on the History of the Moon Gods and their Churches. A relatively lenghty piece, it deals with the origins of the moon gods, and the beliefs that all the moon faiths share. It explains a little about the role of Uros and the Godspeakers as well as Creation, werecreatures, the Covenant, Enclaves and all manner of other juicy things. There's little here that hasn't been explained or alluded to in game time, but it has never been drawn together into one coherent whole.

25 January 2005

I know I should never have promised an update each week. Why do I do these things? Still, at least the update you are getting today is actually quite substantial. Take a deep breath and we will press on:

Dungeons and Dragons

• I've altered the font I use for links from Bangle to Albertus as I think it makes the text clearer. If you need the Albertus font please head to the fonts page and request it.
• The psionics section has received some modifications to better reflect the spirit of the 3.5 rules. This mainly affects the abilities of epic level psions but what the hell?
• After discovering that Mongrelfolk are alive and well in the third edition rules, I have made updates to the game rule information of that species. There is also some further information on the mongrelfolk of Iourn (aka the Genbassi).
• Big updates to the section on New Feats. Six new feats of my devising and a further eleven exalted feats developed by Marc to flesh out his current character.
• My ramblings on the subject of Alignment have now been posted. I have also posted a revised detect evil spell for reasons that should soon be readily apparent after reading the Alignment section.
• The Dirty Strike ability of the Mariner Core Class has been revised to bring it in line with the officially published material. I'm happier with the new version.
• Against all odds I have finally completed one of the Master Lists! The Master List of all Classes is now on-line and contains all core, prestige, NPC and racial paragon classes published up to and including Races of Destiny (December 2004). That's five hundred classes by-the-by.

Iourn Campaign Setting

• The font used for the heading of each entry in the A to Z has been changed from Morpheus to Albertus (I have a liking for Albertus at the moment). I think it makes it easier to read. Again head over to the fonts page if you don't have access to the Albertus font.
• The Iourn A-to-Z has been updated to include material from sessions 2-8 of the Crucible of Youth campaign - that's 78 new or revised entries. I should bring it completely up to date for the current campaign later this week. I am still working on the campaign log for those sessions.
• The Timeline of Events has been given an overhaul with a new section for Autumn 204 that chronicles the period from 29-42 Chillbone - the events of sessions 1-7 (and most of session 8) of the Crucible of Youth campaign. Again this will be extened out to session fourteen later in the week.

Beyond the Teacosy

• I've recently taken on the task of reviewing the comic Amazing Fantasy for the lovely people at Spiderfan.org. This has very little to do with the content of this site, but I thought I'd plug it anyway. External links open in a new window.

I have also updated the FAQ and the links in the What's New Archive are now working. That's more than sixteen updates in the last fourteen weeks, so I'm actually averaging slightly more than an update a week. I'll spread them out a bit more next time.

20 October 2004

The new website launches! Truly this is a day of much celebrating in all the dark corners of the world. An update fifteen months in the making, you now get not one, not two but four websites for the price of one! The plan has been to create a site that divorces modifications to the D&D rules with the Iourn campaign background, as well as everything else I have chosen to put on-line. So what has actually been added? Take a deep breath and read on:

Teacosy Home

This is the brand new, top level site where you can find such edifying new pages as the FAQ, the Fonts Page, the Links Page and the What's New Archive. It's not large, but it is perfectly formed.

Dungeons and Dragons

All my house rules have been brought together, and I am now including all the supplementary material that has been released over the past four years. Now fully 3.5 compliant, this is a base from which to create my definitive master lists of every spell, class and feat. The following is just a sample of what the site has to offer. Check out the D&D Sitemap for a comprehensive list.

• Guide to Character Generation including generating Apprentice Level Characters.
• Full details of the common races, as well as rules for Playing Powerful Races and complete stats for racial character classes in minotaur, aboleth and drow.
• Details and new rules for twenty core character classes and five prestige classes. This is the tip of the iceberg.
• An overview of Templates.
• New rules for Skills and Languages.
• A new section on Feats, including rules for buying feats with experience points. Full details of Weapon Group Feats are also included and a whole list of new feats I have devised.
• The Combat section provides a explanation of the way in which combat works, and brings together rules from different sources on the various aspects of combat.
• A comprehensive section on magic and its disparate branches of Arcane Magic, Divine Magic, Nature Magic, Psionics, Song Magic, True Magic and Incantations!
• New rules for Spell Points and Spell Failure.
• My rules on awarding Experience Points.
• Miscellaneous rules on disparate topics such as Taint, Madness, Vile Damage, Wounds and Healing....

Iourn Campaign Setting

This is why most you are here. Iourn is back, and its bigger, shinier and more legible than ever before. Just in time for the new campaign that starts this evening, we have a comprehensive revamp and new look for the site that started it all. Click for the Iourn Sitemap for a comprehensive list. Here are the highlights:

• New Overview of Iourn for new players, and a section on Adventuring under the six moons.
• More comprehensive information on the Races of Iourn.
• More comprehensive information on how the core character classes fit into the setting, plus three prestige classes updated for 3.5: The Hound of Mortis, the Maker and the Potentate.
• The Gazetteer expanded to include information on Bear's Reach.
• The Who's Who? and What's What? have gone. In their place stands the new-look A to Z! More than 380 additional entries have gone onto this list to flesh out the Bear's Reach campaign setting.
• A new Character Spotlight section which currently features the PCs of the latest campaign.
• The Cosmology of Iourn is now on-line for those searching for clues as to what else is out there. This isn't quite finished for the initial upload, but the gaps will be added soon.
• A new history section where information on important points in the history of Iourn can be found - for the first time information on The Twelve has been posted to the web.
• A new Timeline section for all those clockwatchers.
• A revised section on the Religions of Iourn, including slightly modified powers and abilities for the priests of Vítaeous, Terranor, Zephyre, Calafax, Sharrash and Mortis.
• Plus all the old favourites such as the Druidic Tradition, the Guilds and the Calendars are still here.
• Wait did I forget something? Oh yes, the Campaign Log has been radically overhauled! Plus nine new logs have finally been posted!! They are:
  • Notoriety of Kings session 47: see Elias enrole in paladin school and attend Raza's fake funeral.
  • Notoriety of Kings session 51: in the penultimate installment of The Seventh Sword the Chosen of Narramac open an epic-sized can of whupass on the denizens of the Great Dark, but the land begins to corrupt them.
  • Notoriety of Kings session 52 (part one): it is the last part of The Seventh Sword and the Chosen of Narramac battle the demon hordes of Mínaris while Ravenna tries to open a portal to the Greymere.
  • Notoriety of Kings campaign session 58 (part two): The first installment of The War of the Norandon Succession sees Raza coming to grips with his new responsibilities as regent.
  • Notoriety of Kings session 59: the second part of War of the Norandon Succession and the Nicos faces off against Tarrashar for the powers of the Firewalker, while Mínaris puts his plan into operation.
  • Blood and Water campaign sesssion 9: the last part of Sharper than a Serpent's Tooth sees Ravenna betray the party and get away with it, the arrival of Lokan Kalharn and the destruction of the island of Varosh.
  • Blood and Water campaign session 10: it's the first part of The Sins of the Father and our heroes are en route to Tibrai.
  • The Fall of the House of Maerimydra session 3: the final part of the one-off sees the devastation of Kalisaan and (rather more worryingly) the augmentation of Brack Ogrebane.
  • It's session 1 of the brand new Crucible of Youth Campaign, as the new PCs attempt to make the best of the Last Good Day.

FBI Site

If you haven't visited the site for a while, you might have missed this website, devoted to Marc's Delta Green Campaign. It has been regularly updated for the last six months, so have a look. Long term readers will be delighted to know that that timeline of events has now been updated up to the end of the campaign! Sessions 43, 44, 45, 46, 47 and 48 are now on-line. The Who's Who is also updated to the same session.

The details of the player characters and the casfiles still need to be updated. The site also needs a few twinks here and there. Just becaue the game is on hiatus and I'm running my weekly D&D campaign doesn't mean I've forgotten about evidence response. I am already compiling a list of everything Jane will be up to on her down-time. Expect to see another update to this site before the next session on 21 December.

Special Features

A surprise bonus. A site where I can throw random thoughts that don't fit in anywhere else. Feel free to have a look. There's not much to read, but when you've finished you can let me know what you think of Mrs P.

Obviously a terrific amount of material has been dumped onto the web today, and I somehow doubt that it all works quite the way I intended. Please be on the look out for broken links, and also pages that open in new windows (nothing should open in a new window except external links). If you see any drop me an email (link below) and I'll get onto it

August - September 2004

Multiple updates to the FBI site that I never got around to mentioning. The site is now includes sessions 39, 40, 41 and 42.

27 July 2004

Jane's tenure as leading agent comes to an end as does the adventure. Session 38 arrives in the timeline.

18 July 2004

A massive FBI related update as five sessions materialise in the timeline.

6 July 2004

Okay, I spoke too soon didn't I? Running a little late on the FBI updates - busy writing the Iourn one-off for 10/11 July. However, today sees a small update to the Cold Case site with a new section on Time Travel and revisions to the files of Bradley Ecks and Philip McKraken.

9 June 2004

My word, these updates are running like clockwork aren't they? All the details related to Session 32 of Marc's Grey Case campaign is now on-line.

2 June 2004

More and more updates to the FBI site. Session 31 is now online as well as a plethora of other goodies.

27 May 2004

Almost two weeks, and a massive update to the FBI site, necessitated by new agents, new cases and new sessions. Timeline information for Session 29 and Session 30 is now online. You can hunt around for all the other juicy stuff.

14 May 2004

The FBI site is updated once more. All the necessary information connected with Session 28 is now online.

5 May 2004

The FBI site is updated with details of Session 27 of Marc's most excellent campaign. A few small glitches have also been fixed, but you will have to hunt for those.

3 May 2004

Do not mock. Much has been going on behind the scenes. Today sees a whole new website go live. The site is a resource for Marc's Delta Green Campaign that has been thoroughly confusing me since October 2003. The format of this site is a sneak-preview of the new-look Iourn site that will launch later in the Summer.

25 October 2003

Once more necessity motivates me. With the unplanned and (as yet) unwritten sequel to this one-off taking place on Sunday 9 November, I think it is time everyone refreshed their memory with the original. The campaign log to The Horn of Deliverance.

30 April 2003

In preparation for the upcoming one-off adventure the conversations of Raza de Luna and the Vampire of Sorgar are now on-line for your edification. Please click and read the Interview with the Vampire... of Sorgar.

13 March 2003

Happy New Year! I'm not going to even attempt to find an excuse for the tardiness of this update. Now online is an overview of the activities of Drasha, Misgon, Thorik and everyone abandoned by the current party when they took their sojourn to Jotan's Point. Click and enjoy An NPC Adventure.

23 December 2002

A mighty overhaul of the What's What? and the Who's Who? pages has taken place. They are now complete up to the end of the adventure Requiem. Still a long way to go, I'm afraid. Note as of the update of 20 October 2004 this material is now found in the A to Z of Iourn.

17 December 2002

The adventures of Manacus are brought up to date with the second installment of The Fugitive - only eight months since part one. Still, no complaints! The Two Towers goes on national release tomorrow!

10 December 2002

The campaign log for The Painted Lady draws to a close as session four of the current campaign is posted. And then, sit back and enjoy the first installment of Sharper than a Serpent's Tooth in a special yuletide campaign log double-whammy.

6 December 2002

The disparate events of all the campaigns are drawn together into a definitive timeline of The Great Upheavel in Norandor. And yes, I know a lot of the logs this document précis aren't on line yet, but give me time. It's nearly Christmas. Note the material in this update was subsequently revised in the Timeline of Events for the period beginning in Mizzle Month 204.

21 November 2002

Umaru makes her debut in the third session of the adventure named after her. It's the next installment of The Painted Lady.

6 November 2002

Fishing, banjo-playing, tournaments, and then things get serious. Session two of The Painted Lady has now been posted.

5 November 2002

While the current party nears the island of Varosh and a second confrontation with the Potentates, let's remember how the first one went. Sessions 56 and 57 of Waiting for Mortis have been posted for your delight.

16 October 2002

Prepare for a further attack of nostalgia. Nightmare Beasts, Belsinor's Girdle and the infamous sock fight: it can only be session 46 of the Notoriety of Kings campaign - the next installment of The Seventh Sword.

13 October 2002

Slowly the campaign log takes shape. The first session of the The Painted Lady is now online in its entirety. Also, to prove I haven't forgotten the next installment of The Seventh Sword has also been posted. The powers of the Blades of Virtue have just been revealed! Relive the moment the Chosen of Narramac used that knowledge for the first time.... against the Brotherhood of the Black Rose!

8 October 2002

In my defence I'd like to say that I'd be much further ahead if my computer hadn't died. However, now I have a shiny new machine I feel ready to tackle a new year and a new campaign. As I stress to get the campaign log up to date, he's the first effort from the new Blood and Water campaign. We have the prologue, Family Affairs and the beginning of The Painted Lady for your perusal.

30 August 2002

Well, the least said about the inactivity the better. Hey, I'm getting married in a fortnight! If I can't use that as an excuse what can I use? The next part of the Path Perfidious Campaign, ominously titled The Rising Tide is now available to peruse. Big changes to the site are coming soon. Watch this space!

30 April 2002

The log moves with all the speed of continental drift. The fortunes of Manacus are chronicled in the first installment of The Fugitive.

23 April 2002

The secrets of the Blades of Virtue are revealed! Well, it was exciting when it happened. Session 44, the next installment of The Seventh Sword is now on-line.

19 April 2002

The log has been updated. I've ammended session 42 of The Seventh Sword to include Nicos's letter to Belsan Uneer or the Sorgar Watchers, and session three of Dancers in the Dark has finally been posted. Only eight months after the event. You may also be interested to learn that the series of one-offs that began with Into the Wraith Haunt has been upgraded to full campaign status. Please report any broken links.

10 April 2002

Right, let's make a mammoth narrative leap. Sessions 54 and 55 of the campaign log, the beginnings of Waiting for Mortis have now been posted. Yes, I know that leaves a gulf of ten sessions. They will appear.

5 February 2002

A mixed bag today. Revel in ship-board shennanigans in the latest installment of The Seventh Sword - Session 43 of the campaign log is on-line. Also there is a new section on Magical Items. Information has been posted on Nicos's Scrying Mirror and Amulet of Heat Resistance as well as the low-down on the Blades of Virtue - a long time in coming, that one. Note the details of new magic items were not transferred to the site in the October 2004 update. I still have this information and it will appear at a later time in the section on Magic Items.

22 January 2002

Information has been posted on The History of the Hadradan Empire and The Religions of Hadrada. Get them while they're hot.

18 January 2002

The next installment of The Seventh Sword is on-line. A mighty chunk featuring sessions 38, 39, 40, 41 and 42! Packs of wolf-hounds and vampires abound in five sessions where both Elias and Raza found themselves in deep holes, and just kept on digging.

15 January 2002

Let's keep the momentum going! Session 37 of the log, chronicling the next part of The Seventh Sword is on line. Thirty-one days pass for our heroes in a session that featured Umbria, Dralcarnus and Raza's descent into madness.

7 January 2002

No campaign log today. But I have added a section on the Hadradan Calendar and The History of the Hadradan Calendar for your edification.

6 January 2002

Now we're motoring! Sessions 32, 33 (parts one and two) , 34, 35 and 36 (parts one and two) have been posted. That's the rest of The End of Days, the entirety of Requiem and the first part of the latest epic: The Seventh Sword! Such service.

5 January 2002

Three times in three days? The log for session 31 of the ongoing campaign is on-line. Everyone goes into mourning and Ellyboodle appears in the first part of The End of Days. Oh and I've deleted the announcement from 28/07/01. Seemed pointless keeping it.

4 January 2002

Wonder of wonders - the campaign log is updated again. Session 30 is now on line. Relive Arvan's heroic sacrifice in the last part of The Deeper Shadow, The Darkest Night.

3 January 2002

New Year's resolution - must update the website more regularly. The campaign log for session 29, The Deeper Shadow, The Darkest Night has finally been posted. More soon. Honest.

10 October 2001

The Who's Who? and What's What? sections have been substantially updated to bring us up to the end of session 32 (note that afte the 20 October 2004 update this section has been renamed the A to Z of Iourn). There's also been an addition to the campaign log for Dai Caled.

18 September 2001

The return of Stouty Hairyfoot, goblin massacres, wise dwarves, the fate of Thorangrim and eagle-riding. Sessions 27 and 28 of The Deeper Shadow, The Darkest Night are now available. Also, details of the Church Inquisitor Prestige Class.

4 September 2001

We're getting there. Session 26, the next installment of The Deeper Shadow, The Darkest Night has been posted.

30 August 2001

The campaign log for the second session of Dancers in the Dark has been posted. The final part will be posted soon (hopefully).

7 August 2001

The section on Psionics is now on-line. It is a comprehensive interpretation of the third edition rules for my campaign. In addition, psionic characters now appear in the Character Class section. Also a new section on additional or altered Feats has appeared, and I've slightly modified the Hound of Mortis spell-list. Phew.

3 August 2001

At long last, and ultimately worth the wait, we have an update to the campaign log. Sessions 24 and 25 of the weekly campaign - ie, the next two sessions on The Deeper Shadow, The Darkest Night is on-line for your edification.

29 July 2001

Just so Indran knows what Mannacus is up against.... details on the new prestige class, Hound of Mortis is now on-line.

28 July 2001

New information has been posted on the XP Cost of creating magical items and casting certain spells. (I later changed my mind about these rules and they no longer appear on the site). A good overview of the nature of Magic is also on-line, along with an expansion to the rules governing Sorcery. I know this is not the update you were expecting. Please click here for an Announcement (link deleted 05/01/02).

26 June 2001

My it has been a while, hasn't it? Any way, in preparation for this Saturday's game, the first part of the log for Dancers in the Dark is finally on-line. More log updates soon!

23 April 2001

At last! A long time in coming, and probably not worth the wait... information on The Druidic Tradition is finally on-line. Just in the nick, once again.

17 April 2001

Major update to the campaign log. All of Dai Caled is now on-line, as is the beginnings of the next epic, The Deeper Shadow, The Darkest Night. That brings the log completely up to date. Look for another update on Friday.

11 April 2001

The campaign log for Crime and Punishment has finally been completed. Sorry for the delay. Date of third one-off adventure has been set for Saturday 28th April.

14 March 2001

Galahyde the Black declared the duchy of Dismallion an independent state (and himself the rightful king of Norandor) on 41st Dark Days 203. This new information has led to a slight revision of the Coming of the Gods, Norandon Rulers, Norandon Settlements and support sections.

13 March 2001

The Crime and Punishment campaign log has been updated. Also, a small modification in the Languages section: the Druidic tongue is now called Thari.

6 March 2001

The campaign log for session 18, part two of Crime and Punishment, is now on-line.

4 March 2001

The full text of druidic spells has been posted in the New Spells section.

26 February 2001

The campaign log for the first part of Crime and Punishment is on line. Also, From Humble Acorns has been modified here, here, here to take into account retrospective roleplaying and something I missed the first time.

20 February 2001

The section on Character Classes has been expanded to include rules on Specialist Wizards.

18 February 2001

At last! We're up to date. Campaign logs for sessions 14, 15 and 16 have been added completing From Humble Acorns. Also: new rules regarding the Wildshape ability for the Druid character class, in preparation for forthcoming stuff on the Druidic Tradition, and some small ammendments for Norandon Settlements.

5 February 2001

The Social Order section is finally on line. With it the information on Norandor has been horribly increased to include notes on the Norandor court, the aristocracy, correct form and succession - just in time too! Campaign Log is my next priority.

4 February 2001

The sections on Class and Race have been ammended to take into account new material. A complete listing of all prestige and NPCs classes, as well as definitive rules for playing creatures from the Monster Manual are now at your finger tips. As a consequence, the spell point progression for the Adept has also been posted.

25 January 2001

The campaign log for The Prodigal Wizard is finally complete. Sessions 12 and 13 (parts one and two) of the campaign are now on-line, session 13 stretching slighting into part one of the next adventure, From Humble Acorns. Enjoy.

19 January 2001

The campaign log for the second one-off, Into the Wraith Haunt is now on line, along with ammendments to the Ancient History and Coming of the Gods sections. The final two sessions of The Prodigal Wizard are very nearly finished, watch for them tomorrow.

16 January 2001

Ammendments to the new rules for the spell-casting character classes. Also see the section on sorcery.

5 January 2001

Major update in the religions section. Overviews of all six Moon Gods is now on line along with new spells for Mortis. The excised scene from session nine of the The Prodigal Wizard featuring Elias and Raza's secret meeting has also been posted. The story moved on to the extent that everthing Elias said is no longer secret from the other players. I think that's all. New one-off tomorrow!

31 December 2000

Information on the god Vítaeous, and details of the new spells available to her clergy have been posted.

26 December 2000

Boxing Day, already. My turkey was a triumph - just thought I would share that with you all. Anyway, we have updates to the New Spells section with a number of new magicks for Calafax clerics. The structure is now there to add more spells for the other faiths. Also the religion section has endured a major overhaul. New material on the gods is forthcoming. Honest.

18 December 2000

The last game of the twentieth century, session eleven of The Prodigal Wizard has now been posted. Also, read the gen on the The Guild of Adventurers in the new guilds section.

12 December 2000

The list of spells available to a priest of Calafax has now been extended out to ninth level. I have also added a section on New Spells which appears on the side-bar and in the Site Map. The first new spell, Conjure Flame, has also been added.

7 December 2000

Once more unto the Campaign Log dear friends.... session ten of The Prodigal Wizard for your edification.

5 December 2000

They've been a while in coming, but sessions eight and nine of The Prodigal Wizard are now on-line in the Campaign Log section. Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear.

17 November 2000

I said I wouldn't, but I have. Session seven of The Prodigal Wizard is now on-line.

15 November 2000

The Gazetteer has been finished at least for the moment. Now on-line are overviews of Eldagaire, Junos, The Five Colour Kingdom, Stonebark and Maldomoor. Details of major islands to follow soon(ish).

9 November 2000

In an unexpected display of conscientiousness I've updated the campaign log again! Session six of The Prodigal Wizard is now on-line. Don't expect any more updates to this before Christmas....

7 November 2000

Information regarding Norandor has been expanded to take into account events of the campaign.

7 November 2000

The first half of the campaign log for the current adventure, The Prodigal Wizard, is on-line. I know I said that I'd only update the campaign log at the end of each adventure, but the first one is unusually long. Here are the first five sessions for you to pick to pieces and spot my spelling mistakes.

30 October 2000

World information on Calclafique and The Pits of Walhoon is available in the Gazeteer section.

24 October 2000

Added secion on Sorostrae to the Gazeteer section.

14 October 2000

Added section on Experience Awards.

13 October 2000

Complete reorganisation of the behind-the-scenes bit of the site. Let me know if any links aren't working. Added the Site Map and lots of other pages that don't have any information on them yet.

10 October 2000

Decided I didn't like the set up of the What's New? section, so I changed it to the format you see now.

7 October 2000

I finally pull my finger out of my elbow and create a What's New? section for the web-site!

Updated the log of the Sugar and Spice adventure to tally with new character names and added new section on Player Characters to the Who's Who? page (now called the A to Z of Iourn).