The Magmahold

Last weekend I went to an AoS-28 narrative event run for the Rollmodels community, A Crown of Salt and Shadow. I had a blast, so I'm going to run through what I got up to and talk a bit about what made it a good event. The setting The event was set in Shyish, on the Isles of Munsalvesch. Queen Roswitha, the ruler of the Isles, was dying after a reign that had lasted for as long as anyone could remember. Various factions stood to profit or fall by her death, including merchant houses, the folk of the isles, the forces of law and order, and the long dead, possible mythical king of the pale salt mist. 'In a lost corner of the Dwindlesea, the Isles of Munsalvesch rise above the waves. Clinging to the rocks, the flotsam and the bones of those who came before, folk have made lives here for generations.' Essentially it was a small, fairly self-contained part of Shyish where events could play out without needing to worry about the bigger picture of AoS, though there was lots of sco...

I have four AoS or AoS-adjacent events coming up over the next two months and they're all narrative events, so for May's blog (which was at least half written in May, we're catching up), I thought I'd do a forward look at what my hopes and dreams for these events are. Event 1 - A Crown of Salt and Shadow What is it?  An AoS 28 event with a custom ruleset loosely based on converting the Necromunda rules into the AoS world. Games will be played with small warbands, and it will have a very heavy narrative focus What am I taking? I've built a warband specifically for this event, they're mostly kitbashed from the Corvus Cabal Warcry warband with a couple of other kits thrown in for numbers and variety. I did a fairly quick slap chop paint job on them, but I'm quite pleased with how they've come out. What's the narrative? The lore for the event is based around a group of small islands, so the warband concept is that they're a gang of beach scavengers...