Palladium Fantasy: a pleasant return, pt 2
In this installment, we will look at some of the basic underpinnings of my Palladium Campaign, The Houses of Winter, and its two primary stories Winter Blooms, and Long Winter Shadows. The Houses of Winter is the overall campaign. Winter Blooms concerns itself with the quest by the three ostensible heroes, Grath, Marlin Tyrell, and … Continue reading
Palladium Fantasy: a pleasant return, pt 1
The bulk of my RPG collection is in storage… on the other side of the Earth. Were it not for the not insignificant issues of weight and shipping costs, I would have had it all (or most of it at any rate) sent to me here, long ago. In order to sate a desire most … Continue reading
Trinity: Planning and running the game~ pt.4
In previous installments of this report, I have mentioned that I prepared short fiction to illustrate certain setting elements, such as the environment, characters or character types, social interactions, and mood. In this installment, I shall present some of those and look at how they were constructed and why they were constructed that way. In … Continue reading
Trinity: Planning and running the game~ pt.3
Before the story began, each player had played in a Trinity game before (set aboard the Horus, a prototype for the Leviathan jumpships which I had devised to use as an introduction for a much larger group to the setting), and had read through the color-section of the core rules, in addition to a set of short … Continue reading
Trinity: Planning and running the game ~ Part 2
In this installment, I’d like to go over how the characters were developed, and how they in turn were used to further develop the setting and themes of the Series. A little bit of time will be spent on how those design choices were used to prepare outlines for potential plots and appropriate scenarios to explore. … Continue reading
Casting Shadows 