Saturday Seed ~ 101 (Call of Cthulhu/Aces&Eights)
Posted by Runeslinger on April 28, 2012 · Leave a Comment
This week’s seed could work easily with either Call of Cthulhu or Aces&Eights as I will present it here, but could be modified or completed to work as a cross-over of these two games, or run in a Deadlands campaign. The options are quite broad. The seed could be ideal for a new group of … Continue reading →
Filed under Aces & Eights, Call of Cthulhu, Deadlands, Saturday Seeds · Tagged with Call of Cthulhu, Plot Hooks, Story Ideas
Serial Setting 2 ~ Week 8
Posted by Runeslinger on April 27, 2012 · Leave a Comment
The Casting Shadows blog’s second Serial Setting has been running once a week for two months, and will continue for another four, providing basic details for heroic pulp adventures for the Ubiquity Roleplaying System as presented in Hollow Earth Expedition. These ideas, set in a fictional version of the Korean peninsula in 1936, present a community oppressed … Continue reading →
Marvel’s and Whedon’s Avengers
Posted by Runeslinger on April 27, 2012 · 7 Comments
NO SPOILERS – I have just gotten home from the theatre where my wife and I thoroughly enjoyed The Avengers. Liking Whedon’s past work,and being very pleased with the movie incarnations of Iron Man, Thor, and Captain America, I felt before going that there was a good chance that the movie continuity for these heroes … Continue reading →
Filed under Reviews, The Blog · Tagged with Avengers, Black Widow, Captain America, Hawkeye, Hulk, Iron Man, Joss Whedon, roleplaying games, Thor
Whose Ticket to Ride?
Posted by Runeslinger on April 22, 2012 · 10 Comments
I don’t play any type of D&D anymore, and as it has been 23 years since I left that particular game behind in favour of others I can be fairly sure that there will be no returning. From time to time, the urge to run a fantasy game surfaces, of course, but those urges are … Continue reading →
Filed under Running Games, The Blog · Tagged with Adventurer Conqueror King, Railroading, Role-playing game, roleplaying, RPG, running games, Thoughts, Total Party Kill
Saturday Seed ~ 100 (Randomized!)
Posted by Runeslinger on April 21, 2012 · Leave a Comment
This week’s seed is the 100th I have shared on the Casting Shadows blog. When I started putting these story seeds forward, it never occurred to me that this particular series of posts would run so long. I have put up ideas of varying length and complexity over the past 100 weeks for games like … Continue reading →
Filed under Blue Planet, Saturday Seeds · Tagged with Call of Cthulhu, Deadlands, Hollow Earth Expedition, Mutants & Masterminds, Palladium Fantasy, Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game, Plot Ideas, Shadowrun, Story Hooks





