Thursday, 13 April 2023

Hearty Hail and Well met!



 Welcome to our gaming world of Barra. Created initially toward the end of 1988 using the 1st edition AD&D rules this game has seen several editions and other systems, like Castles and Crusades, to facilitate building the experience.  The game has taken various groups to the far north seas on a small island of small kingdoms called Skagin, to the far east of Mu Asia where there are secret societies fighting among themselves to see who will hold pre-eminence  and as well as fighting the oppressive ruling body of this great continent.  They have travelled to a small kingdom called Anglund which was recovering from a war with a neighbouring kingdom.  They have adventured on Thix, another continent (where the original colonists of Skagin came from) to the wild Werris continent becoming involved in a centuries old war against the Orcs and there allies versus the Elves and various surviving human nations.  During all these travels the groups have encounter high magic, ancient artefacts, dangerous magics and mysterious items as well as groups that would seem to be themselves from a future time.  The ancient Orroculi group, the Star Farers, the Elysium, the Shek Hong, they have met mythic beings from far history, the immortal Brah, Tyrys an ancient  Ent who serves with the Warrior Eternal at the Chronomantic Pool on another vast continent Rangar and creatures of incredible evil - the Sheol, Devyls, Daemons and Societies of Vampires. They have played in various time periods from 'current day' Barra to 400 years in the future, 10,000 years in the past, over 140,000 years beyond that.  A lot of fun and story has been created and shared with the almost 50 players involved

.  So now we delve back into Skagin's history to explore another unsettled time, some 1500 years past.  The story that hopefully will end up on this blog.  So until then...Game On!

Wednesday, 11 January 2023

Hmmm

 Just one word...Covid! Someday I hope we can get this up and running, until then...GAME ON!!!

Sunday, 9 February 2020

Welcome


Welcome to our shared world of Barra.  Its a game world that has been played in many editions of Dungeons and Dragons, Castles and Crusades for over 30 years. About 50 people have had a hand in shaping what we are playing in right now.  The current events take place on a small island, Skagin, in the northern seas. The year is 1056 and a group of adventurers has been gathered by the White Lady, Isa, who resides and protects the Murder Forest. The end goal is for the group to enter and retrieve from Gommelfell the sword of Chaos, as ancient artifact, that lies somewhere in the sewers of the town return it to her and to remove it from the hands of the evil that resides now in old Gommel.  To do this she has set the group to task to recover various items for her to use to help protect and aid the group in their final goal. The first item was to recover a White Dragon scale.  The group did this and I will leave it up to the people who were there to tell that story. Though each was there, there may be differences of opinion in how the tale is told - all part of the fun. So I will open the blog and hope that the Players can now start to introduce themselves and tell their tales. Game on!
Steve (KiwiGm)

Hearty Hail and Well met!

 Welcome to our gaming world of Barra. Created initially toward the end of 1988 using the 1st edition AD&D rules this game has seen seve...