#RPGaDay Day 5: Character Stories
Today’s #RPGaDay Question: August 5: What story does your group of players tell about your character? When your group talks about past games, what story (good, bad, or embarrassing) gets told about one of your characters? This one is fairly easy for me as, as I have mentioned earlier, I don’t get to run too many long-term … Continue reading
#RPGaDay Day 3: Character Moment
Today’s Question: What is the character moment you are most proud of? Another challenging question, particularly if you are, like me, usually a GM. There are a few like this this time, but hopefully, it has not been so long since you have run a character that the details are lost to time. I had … Continue reading
Filling Empty Cups
That people ‘just don’t listen’ is a peril of conversation both online and off. It is worse when the person in question is seeking advice but won’t take it. Much can be said about the conditions and causes of faults in listeners, but does that accomplish all that we want? The target audience isn’t listening. … Continue reading
Gothic Horror in Print
Two topics which get mentioned a lot on this blog are the Ubiquity Roleplaying System and Triple Ace Games. A third topic of note is Horror. This post is about all three: Triple Ace Games’ ambitious project of releasing an in-depth series of source books for Gothic Horror. Some History Unlike many Kickstarter Projects which do not … Continue reading
From RuneQuest to Mythras
Over the coming weeks, as June becomes July, one of my favorite systems will be transforming once again. RuneQuest 6th Edition, the flexible and powerful iteration of this long-lived system by Pete Nash and Lawrence Whitaker of The Design Mechanism is casting off the name by which it has been known to re-emerge under the name … Continue reading
Casting Shadows 