Saturday Seed ~ 108 (Prime Directive / SFB)
Posted by Runeslinger on June 16, 2012 · Leave a Comment
This week’s seed is for Star Fleet Battles and Prime Directive, in whichever flavour you play it. I prefer the original flavour of the game system, personally. This is a set-up with equal parts role play and tactical play, but need not run in a linear fashion with the one leading into the other. As … Continue reading →
Filed under Infectious Plots, Prime Directive (SFB), Saturday Seeds, Star Fleet Battles · Tagged with Plot Hooks, Prime Directive, roleplaying, Star Fleet Battles, Story Ideas
Come hell or high water…
Posted by Runeslinger on June 15, 2012 · 10 Comments
Anyone who has spent any time with games set in the World of Darkness has probably at one time or another wondered if their Storyteller were out to get them. While games like Vampire do not have a monopoly on pushing for consequences for character action, they certainly introduced a lot of young gamers to … Continue reading →
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Serial Setting 2 ~ Week 15
Posted by Runeslinger on June 15, 2012 · Leave a Comment
The Casting Shadows blog’s second Serial Setting appears in weekly installments scheduled for a 6-month run. This series is focused on providing basic details for heroic pulp adventures for the Ubiquity Roleplaying System as presented in Hollow Earth Expedition. These ideas, set in a fictionalized and mysticized version of the Korean peninsula in 1936, present a community oppressed by … Continue reading →
Interrogation in ‘A Time of War’
Posted by Runeslinger on June 9, 2012 · 1 Comment
Due in part to moving to a new city and starting a new job as the head of a newly created department, I have fallen woefully far behind in the actual play reports for my ongoing Mechwarrior PBeM. Much has happened since the last report, but this week has brought about a kind of scene … Continue reading →
Filed under A Time of War, Battletech, Battletech / Mechwarrior, Mechwarrior Live Game Reports, Preparation and Preparedness, Running Games · Tagged with Battletech, Role-playing game
Saturday Seed ~ 107 (Leagues of Adventure)
Posted by Runeslinger on June 9, 2012 · 1 Comment
This week’s seed is for the exciting new release by TAG for Ubiquity, Leagues of Adventure. It is a campaign-starter seed, that would best be run for characters of intellectual and social dispositions as opposed to the physical. The seed The characters are recruited for their various specialties, connections, memberships, and so on. Assistance is recruited … Continue reading →
Filed under Infectious Plots, Leagues of Adventure, Saturday Seeds, Ubiquity · Tagged with Leagues of Adventure, Plot Hooks, roleplaying, Steampulp, Story Ideas, Ubiquity, Ubiquity Roleplaying System, Victorian RPG
Casting Shadows 