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Entry 1 - Light Fingers

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Entry 1 - Light Fingers Thanks for reading! This entry's recommended listening includes "Priest" by William Crighton and "Old Time Religion" by Parker Millsap. Southern Gothic is a vibe. Welcome back, Inciting incident time! Tips from the rulebook advise making it: personal, a problem that won't go away on it's own, have a ticking clock, making it impact people you care about, upping the stakes and limiting the scope. Keeping that in mind let's roll some oracles. Starting in media res or not? 50/50 - 09 No In a settlement? 50/50 - 93 Yes Have we been here for long? Unlikely - 23 No Settlement Trouble - 11 Important Object is lost Action/Theme - 1/55 Scheme Disease Ok so we got some ideas flowing now; we just arrived in a settlement that we've not been to before and the settlement has lost an important item related to a "Scheme of Disease." Let's find out more about this town. Is it in the Deep Wilds? Small Chance - 9 No, so the Have...
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Entry 0 - Start Here! - Truths Summary and Character Creation

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Entry 0 - Start Here Thanks for reading!  OK so I'm actually starting the actual play blog I've been thinking about for months. Awesome. First off I love Ironsworn and a big thank you to Shawn Tomkin for creating my main coping mechanism this last year.  My name is Jacob and online I go by Jacob Munkie or themunkie depending on the platform. Over in the official Ironsworn discord (link in the sidebar) I'm called Munkiesworn. I go by He/They pronouns and a fun fact about me is that I have a wonderful dog named Boone and he is eleven years old now! Big boy! Just an fyi. this blog may have adult content depicted or alluded including but not limited to violence, death, and foul language because you know...  Fuck it. Down to business, let's get to the Ironsworn! If you don't know what that is or what I'm doing Ironsworn is a table-top role playing game built in the Powered by the Apocalypse engine. Lots of big words and proper nouns that basically boil down to this i...
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