Posted by Runeslinger on January 8, 2013 · Leave a Comment
There are many reasons why I selected RuneQuest to support my serious foray back into fantasy gaming after all these years (No, Vampire: The Dark Ages does not count). Chief among these reasons is the basic simplicity of the core mechanics and the enjoyable lethality of the combat system. At this point in time, I … Continue reading →
Category Preparation and Preparedness, Runequest, Running Games, The Blog · Tagged with fantasy gaming, gaming, Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game, Role-playing game, roleplaying, roleplaying system, RPG, Runequest, running games, setting development
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 →
Category 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
Posted by Runeslinger on December 8, 2012 · 7 Comments
Erik Tenkar has been keeping an eye on RPG Kickstarter projects for a while now, and I appreciate his perspective on the phenomenon of some of these explosive bidding processes followed by months of waiting and – more often than not, it seems, by delays. I especially appreciate that he does not proclaim the sky … Continue reading →
Posted by Runeslinger on November 25, 2012 · 8 Comments
For a few weeks now I have been in the process of doing short clips (no, really!) on my YouTube channel which are intended to serve as an introduction to a style of play which I feel was more common in the past than it is now. Although badly or misleadingly named (and I apologize … Continue reading →
Category Casting the Shadows, Characters and Support Cast, Live Game Report, Preparation and Preparedness, Running Games, Shadowscast, The Blog, Themes and Intentions · Tagged with gaming, gaming theory, immersion, roleplaying, Simulation, Simulation in Roleplaying Games
Posted by Runeslinger on October 22, 2012 · 6 Comments
As readers of this blog already know, I like Play by e-Mail games and have found them much easier to run since the advent of Gmail. A few weeks ago, I transformed a game slated to be run as a PBeM into a game run via Google+ and my initial feeling is that I will … Continue reading →
Category A Time of War, Battletech, Battletech / Mechwarrior, Mechwarrior Live Game Reports, Preparation and Preparedness, Reports, Reviews, Running Games · Tagged with A Time of War, Battletech, Google+, live report, Mechwarrior, Play-by-mail game, playing in games, Role-playing game, running games
Casting Shadows 