Sparks and Flows of Imagination: Blue Planet
There are many things which I find compelling and satisfying about Blue Planet as an RPG in all of its editions, but near the top is how it manages to give me at least part of an answer to any particular question I might have about a future setting of speculative science fiction grounded in a spirit of verisimilitude over fantasy and depth vs vibes.
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.
A Spectrum of Character in RPGs
In a significant percentage of roleplaying games, playing a character is a core activity. From the start of the hobby, this has been one of those things we expect to find in an RPG. Once the hobby began to broaden with more titles and with more approaches to play, that notion of character and how one actually goes about playing one have broadened as well. What it means to play a character is a question that can be answered very differently now than in 1974, 1984, 1994, 2004, 2014, and so on. Sadly, although our ability to observe and communicate what goes on across the hobby as a whole has improved, our ability to describe it and so further share and discover it has not commensurately grown.
#RPGaDAY2025 – My approach and Day 1: Patron
#RPGaDAY2025 begins! Today’s prompt is Patron and I will be taking the option of linking all 31 prompts into a continuous flow to make a campaign pitch for Leagues of Cthulhu~
Star Trek: First Response
Because the universe has a sense of humor, I find myself having arranged to run Star Trek Adventures as a campaign again. Don’t get me wrong, I really enjoy running it, it’s just that for the first time in a long time I have a number of games that I want to play for the … Continue reading
