The Thrill of Victory and the Agony of Conversation

It would be foolish to contest that our hobby grew out of the war games community. How far, however, has it grown? A quick tour of the ever-growing spectrum of RPG blogs will suggest that what growth there has been is not without some serious backsliding into the hobby’s primordial ooze. When virtually every discussion … Continue reading

Serial Setting 2 ~ Week 14

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

The Light that Never Warms (All for One: Regime Diabolique) – Campaign Report 5

Campaign: The Light that Never Warms  Story Two: I Came for the Waters Session 1 Turning Trouble’s Tables This is the fifth installment of reports for my current face-to-face campaign using Triple Ace Games’ fantastic All for One: Regime Diabolique ~ a game of supernatural intrigue and swashbuckling action in a dark reflection of 17th … Continue reading

Saturday Seed ~ 106 (Blue Planet)

This week’s seed is for Blue Planet. It is another extremely small seed, and would best be run with human characters new to Poseidon, or with very unassuming appearances. The seed One of the characters (or a person near them physically at the time the scenario starts) is mistakenly marked by ecoterrorists as having overheard details … Continue reading

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