#RPGaDAY2025 DAY 2: PROMPT
Posted by Runeslinger on August 2, 2025 · Leave a Comment
The second day of #RPGaDAY2025 amusingly has the word prompt as the prompt. Which meaning of prompt will be the prompt you use to inspire your post today, Dear Reader? Mine will have you building locked mausoleums~
#RPGaDAY2025 – My approach and Day 1: Patron
Posted by Runeslinger on August 1, 2025 · Leave a Comment
#RPGaDAY2025 begins! Today’s prompt is Patron and I will be taking the option of linking all 31 prompts into a continuous flow to make a campaign pitch for Leagues of Cthulhu~
Lucifer’s Lexicon: On RPG Concepts and Terms~
Posted by Runeslinger on April 28, 2025 · 4 Comments
No Ambrose Bierces were harmed in the making of this post.
The bones of this post actually date back to the launch of this blog in May of 2010 though the content is much older. I had a few conflicting ideas about the blog in those days as it was inspired by the loss of my friend Tom (a genius) and the sense of dismay it sparked to know that there would be no more talks about games, life, or onion soup with him, and to know that a person like that was gone from the world. Worse, all the conversations we had had about gaming were now only the version in my memory – and of the two of us, he liked and got along with people much better than I do.
Category Actual Play, Casting the Shadows, Playing in Games, Preparation and Preparedness, Running Games, Technical Questions, The Blog, Themes and Intentions · Tagged with Games, gaming, roleplaying, roleplaying games, RPG, running games, ttrpg
Call of Cthulhu Immersive Sandbox Campaign Recap and Reflection ~ 1
Posted by Runeslinger on April 13, 2025 · Leave a Comment
The campaign has grown from one investigation with a single investigator to five independent investigations (or branches) and nine investigators, so far…
Category Actual Play, Call of Cthulhu, Campaign Recaps, Casting the Shadows, Live Game Report, Playing in Games, Preparation and Preparedness, Running Games, The Blog, Themes and Intentions · Tagged with Call of Cthulhu, Call of Cthulhu campaign play, Chaosium, gaming, roleplaying, roleplaying games, RPG, RPGs, setting development, ttrpg
RPG Conversations and Metaphor
Posted by Runeslinger on March 29, 2025 · Leave a Comment
The role of word, gesture, and tone in the exchange of information is the essential ingredient in any RPG – even the very limited ones in choose your own adventure books and computer-based versions. Take it away and the RPG can no more happen than a game of Crazy Eights can take place without cards.
Category Actual Play, Casting the Shadows, Playing in Games, Preparation and Preparedness, Running Games, The Blog, Themes and Intentions · Tagged with gaming, Role-playing game, roleplaying, RPG, RPGs are conversation, ttrpg







