Posted by Runeslinger on November 8, 2013 · 2 Comments
My 5 sessions of the YouTube Desolation campaign have come to an end. As hoped, one of the players will be taking over as GM and running 5 more sessions from where session 5 ended. What follows is an overview of Hangouts, some final thoughts on the gaming culture which we adopted over five sessions … Continue reading →
Category Campaign Recaps, Desolation, Desolation Actual Play, Live Game Report, Online Games, Preparation and Preparedness, Running Games, The Blog, Themes and Intentions, Ubiquity · Tagged with Actual Play, Desolation, Hangout, Ubiquity, YouTube
Posted by Runeslinger on November 1, 2013 · 2 Comments
They say that quality is more important than quantity, particularly if you are afflicted with too much or too few of something. Despite the large number of page reads for the Hollow Earth Expedition Character Creation Contest, there were few entrants. Fortunately for me, those few submissions were intriguing and serve as a fine demonstration … Continue reading →
Posted by Runeslinger on October 20, 2013 · 11 Comments
As discussion cycles through toward gaming techniques again in the YouTube RPG Brigade, it has brought a latent point about the narrative voices in gaming to the fore. This post brings together some ideas from a variety of earlier posts and videos and then tries to take some solid technical steps forward toward a framework … Continue reading →
Category Playing in Games, Preparation and Preparedness, Running Games, Technical Questions, The Blog, The Gamers · Tagged with Immersion in RPGs, immersive roleplay, Narrative mode, narrative voice, Role-playing game, RPG, running games
Posted by Runeslinger on October 6, 2013 · 2 Comments
On Wednesday, I hosted a hangout for some notable members of the YouTube RPG community to play the post-apocalyptic fantasy RPG, Desolation. The group was composed of a former arena athlete, a noble, a legionnaire and his young sister, and an outdoorsman. The setting was ostensibly the northern reaches of what used to be the … Continue reading →
Category Campaign Recaps, Desolation, Desolation Actual Play, Online Games, Running Games, The Blog, Ubiquity · Tagged with Desolation, Role-playing game, RPG, Sword & Sorcery, Ubiquity, Ubiquity Roleplaying System, YouTube
Posted by Runeslinger on September 22, 2013 · 6 Comments
You slide down into the air duct and nod at the rest of your team as they seal the cover in place over your face. You have thirty meters to slither awkwardly in a noisy metal duct barely wider than your shoulders and tight enough that it is hard to draw a full breath. According … Continue reading →