October RPG Blog Carnival – Surfing the Surfeit of Horror
It’s October, so naturally it is time to expect Halloween episodes in prime-time on the major networks, fat pumpkins in the grocery stores and farmers markets, and line-jumping Christmas Decorations in the shopping malls. For gamers, thoughts often turn to the one-shot horror story, such as running a Call of Cthulhu scenario, or dipping into … Continue reading
Running A Time of War – again/still
It has been ages since I posted about my Mechwarrior campaign. There has been a lot to say, some of which ended up in Shadowscasts 6 and 7, but there has been a lack of time to do much more than that. To make a long story short, we put the campaign on Indefinite Hiatus. … Continue reading
Let the beats fall where they may…
I have been struggling to write a certain post since I started this blog. This is a run at it, but probably won’t be it. Bits and pieces of the theme have crept out here and there in other posts, but simply what I want to write about is this: There is much more to … Continue reading
Assessing Group Performance
Perception shapes reality, but sadly individual perception shapes only an individual’s reality to any great degree. I say sadly, not because I long for the chaos such a totally mutable world would bring with it, but because many of us remain trapped in glass rooms for 1 in the Hotel of the Real, thinking that our perception … Continue reading
Why do supplements feel like an anchor, not support?
When I was a D&D player my cohorts and I had no access to much beyond the core books we had obtained from far-flung centers of population with amazing things like book and hobby stores. Core books had come to us from mail order, or older brothers who didn’t understand what the game was, or … Continue reading
Casting Shadows 