Casting Runes 6: A Season for All Things – Session 2 Recap
Posted by Runeslinger on March 16, 2014 · 1 Comment
This post continues the exploration and implementation of RuneQuest 6th Edition for the creation and use of a sword and sorcery campaign setting. The recap of session 1 can be found >HERE< Session 2 covered less metaphorical ground, but marks the point where the game’s direction shifted entirely into the hands of the players. Had … Continue reading →
Category BRP, Campaign Recaps, Characters and Support Cast, Live Game Report, Preparation and Preparedness, Runequest, RuneQuest, RuneQuest Actual Play, Running Games, The Blog, Themes and Intentions · Tagged with Actual Play, Campaign setting, campaign world, Character creation, fantasy settings, recap, roleplaying, Runequest, sword and sorcery
Theater of the Mind: Parlay Issue – Bonus Content
Posted by Runeslinger on March 12, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Theater of the Mind Magazine and the Casting Shadows blog I have been contributing to a new gaming magazine called Theater of the Mind for the past few months. The magazine, available in PDF and Print-on-Demand from DriveThru, grew out of the underlying community supporting the YouTube RPG Brigade. In keeping with the nature of … Continue reading →
Category Playing in Games, Preparation and Preparedness, Technical Questions, The Blog, The Gamers, Themes and Intentions · Tagged with roleplaying games, RPGs, running games, Theater of the Mind
Casting Runes 6: A Season for All Things – Session 1 Recap
Posted by Runeslinger on March 9, 2014 · 5 Comments
This post continues the exploration and implementation of RuneQuest 6th Edition for the creation of a sword and sorcery campaign setting. Phase one of implementing the campaign has gone far better than I hoped. I was able to connect with a few good gamers via the G+ Community: Tabletop Roleplaying – Asia-Pacific, and build a … Continue reading →
Category BRP, Campaign Recaps, Characters and Support Cast, Live Game Report, Preparation and Preparedness, Runequest, RuneQuest Actual Play, Running Games, The Blog, Themes and Intentions · Tagged with Actual Play, Campaign setting, campaign world, Character creation, fantasy settings, recap, roleplaying, Runequest, sword and sorcery
Conspicuous RPG Consumption
Posted by Runeslinger on February 3, 2014 · 4 Comments
I recently moved. While there are many tales I could tell about these experiences, such as the death-defying stunts perpetrated by the movers working with no safety gear on a small elevator platform 12 storeys up and outside my kitchen window, I will keep this focused on RPG stuff. Having movers come over to my … Continue reading →
Category Casting the Shadows, Playing in Games, Running Games, The Blog
Desolation Hangouts #2 – 5
Posted by Runeslinger on November 8, 2013 · 2 Comments
My 5 sessions of the YouTube Desolation campaign have come to an end. As hoped, one of the players will be taking over as GM and running 5 more sessions from where session 5 ended. What follows is an overview of Hangouts, some final thoughts on the gaming culture which we adopted over five sessions … Continue reading →
Category Campaign Recaps, Desolation, Desolation Actual Play, Live Game Report, Online Games, Preparation and Preparedness, Running Games, The Blog, Themes and Intentions, Ubiquity · Tagged with Actual Play, Desolation, Hangout, Ubiquity, YouTube








