Casting Runes – An exploration of RuneQuest ~ Introduction
Posted by Runeslinger on December 31, 2012 · 17 Comments
This post is an introduction to the series and as such little to no content was harmed in its making. As I mentioned last week, my next series on the blog will focus on RuneQuest. For whatever reason, I have never played it and from what I can see now, I should have. While I … Continue reading →
Filed under BRP, Preparation and Preparedness, Runequest, Running Games, Stormbringer, The Blog · Tagged with Ars Magica, Basic Role-Playing, Call of Cthulhu, Dragon Warriors, dungeon crawl classics, Plot Ideas, Role-playing game, roleplaying, RPG, Runequest, running games, setting development, Stormbringer, Story Hooks
Saturday Seed ~ 136 (Stormbringer)
Posted by Runeslinger on December 29, 2012 · Leave a Comment
This week’s seed is a grisly little item for Stormbringer. It is not much more than a rumor, but deployed skillfully, can twist itself into a long-running quest, full of the ambiguity and mystery for which the Elric saga is famed. The seed The seed is nothing more than news that an item known as … Continue reading →
Filed under BRP, Infectious Plots, Runequest, Saturday Seeds, Stormbriger · Tagged with Elric, Elric of Melniboné, Plot Ideas, roleplaying, Runequest, Stormbringer, Story Hooks
Taking a Stab at Seven Games
Posted by Runeslinger on December 24, 2012 · 2 Comments
The Black Campbell got me thinking about the Seven Games thread that has been running on G+ for a while. This was a topic I had been studiously ignoring as it doesn’t seem to easily break down into 7 discrete games for me. I tend to run more than one game at a time, and … Continue reading →
Filed under A Time of War, Aberrant, Aces & Eights, Adventure!, All for One: Regime Diabolique, Call of Cthulhu, Desolation, Hollow Earth Expedition, Palladium Fantasy, Running Games, Technoir, Trinity (Aeon), WoD ad nauseum · Tagged with Aces&Eights, Basic Role-Playing, Call of Cthulhu, Role-playing game, Ubiquity, World of Darkness
Saturday Seed ~ 135 (Shadowrun)
Posted by Runeslinger on December 22, 2012 · Leave a Comment
This week’s Saturday Seed is for Shadowrun. It is a seed about a dead man, with deadly property. The Seed This seed deals with a classic case of a simple job which turns out to be something else, coupled with more than the normal amount of fear, loathing, and uncertainty and wrapped in an unhealthy … Continue reading →
Filed under Infectious Plots, Saturday Seeds, Shadowrun · Tagged with Mummy, Plot Ideas, Shadowrun, Story Hooks
Is there a person in personality?
Posted by Runeslinger on December 18, 2012 · 6 Comments
I have recently become involved in a conversation about roleplaying which is not new, but this time is with people new to me, and more importantly is with people who do not seem to argue for the sake of arguing nor argue solely to win. The question at hand most recently has been the degree … Continue reading →
Filed under Casting the Shadows, Playing in Games, Running Games, The Blog · Tagged with character, emergent character, roleplaying, roleplaying games





