Daily despair! Buffy meets Blackadder in BLACK POWDER & BAROVIA
Abandon all hope all ye who enter
Refugees, hangers-on, and deserters of a routed army enter a drifting bank of gunsmoke but when the mists clear the road ahead is new and ill-favoured...
Curse of Strahd is widely considered one of the best modern TRPG modules, and this campaign will reveal Ravenloft's secrets in a whole new light. What is it to a vampire that you've no divine magic and you're a grenadier and not a paladin?
Black Powder and Brimstone is an action-packed, rules-light OSR game of swashbuckling adventure and gothic folk horror, stirred in an unholy blend, based on the award-winning Mörk Borg. It offers fast and punchy D20 gameplay, action and atmosphere in two pox-ridden fists.
Play-by-post is great for the genre, as it provides the perfect space for overwrought gothic prose. We'll post once or twice every 24h, with messages around the length of this description. And there's no need to be self-conscious about your writing! I spent ten years as a secondary school English teacher in inner London and I won't bring any snobbishness to spelling or grammar errors.
Posted Jan 27, 2026, 1:57 PM UTC