The Podcast- On Suspected Inspirations for the Delta Green RPG with Jason Connerley
- A friendly conversation about natural-feeling characters with SettingFirstRPG
- A Friendly Conversation on Character Social Inequality in RPGs
- A Frightfully Cheerful Conversation on Horror and Comedy
- On the idea of a "Better Game"
- On what might be in a name, and Listener Calls
- Biting the Bullet with Jason Hobbs [video]
- Biting Bullets with Jason Hobbs
- A Friendly and Impossible chat with RPG Sean~
- On Memory and RPGs, featuring Arcane Alienist
Whispers in Darkness
What to expect from Casting Shadows
Using either the pull-down menus at the top of the page, or the various means of tag and category search tools arrayed along the sides, readers can explore a still-growing collection of commentary and comments about roleplaying games and techniques for both players and adjudicators. The focus of these posts is strictly on face-to-face and … Continue reading
Building Bonds, Testing Trust, and Sandbaggers – oh my! Part 2
This is the second in what might become a series which uses the episodes of a beloved cold war spy series called The Sandbaggers to dig into the genre from an RPG perspective and specific mechanisms from RPGs such as Delta Green and World War Cthulhu.
Bonds, Trust, and Sandbaggers – Oh, my! Part 1
This is the first in what might become a series of posts about episodes of the cold war spy series The Sandbaggers and how the events and relationships in the series can highlight and give nuance to our understanding of mechanisms within great RPGs like Delta Green and World War Cthulhu: Cold War~
A Universe Parallel to the RPG Experience
Humans being humans, the way we express ourselves tends toward recognizable patterns which we can choose to hone. Looking at how an idea can be explored helps in ways that taking the idea doesn’t…
The Silent Majority
When I reflect on this blog and what my projects under the name of Runeslinger are, it is inescapable to conclude that in the beginning, these endeavors were rooted in an effort to maintain a conversation with the dead.
I have seen the King, and he has Six Strings
Recently, I managed to record a series of talks with Jason Connerley of the Nerd’s RPG Variety Cast Blog and Podcast about the film, Six-String Samurai, and part of that included taking my BRP adaptation of it out for a spin like a beloved platter from the days when music mattered.
Colours out of Space
Casting Shadows 