Returning to Pendragon… again
Posted by Runeslinger on September 29, 2025 · Leave a Comment
What is Pendragon, really? Can we come to terms with it without first finding and naming our Arthur as King?
Category Casting the Shadows, Mythic Britain, Pendragon, Preparation and Preparedness, The Blog, Themes and Intentions · Tagged with Fantasy, gaming, Pendragon, Reviews, roleplaying, roleplaying games, RPG, ttrpg
#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~
The Accidental “Lie” in RPGs
Posted by Runeslinger on May 31, 2025 · 5 Comments
What if a friend of yours never found roleplaying games not because they didn’t like them, but because they had been misrepresented to them?
Category Actual Play, Casting the Shadows, Playing in Games, Running Games, Technical Questions, The Blog, Themes and Intentions · Tagged with Role-playing game, roleplaying, RPG, RPG Theory
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
On Mending the Rift in RPG Culture
Posted by Runeslinger on April 14, 2025 · Leave a Comment
I’ve been a roleplayer for 41 years to date. That’s a very long time to maintain a hobby as a primary focus of my leisure and sometimes my working time, right? Four decades is a very long time, especially for a hobby as time and resource consuming as this one can be. I think that speaks to its importance to me and its ability to fulfill me in ways that other hobbies have not been able to. To say, that if I had been introduced to the hobby in the way it is conceived of now, I would have drifted away from it very quickly, is telling. How many others have already left, or opted not try?
Category Casting the Shadows, Playing in Games, Running Games, Technical Questions, The Blog, Themes and Intentions · Tagged with gaming, Role-playing game, roleplaying, roleplaying games, RPG, RPG Theory, ttrpg







