Casting Runes 1: Percentile Violence~
Posted by Runeslinger on January 8, 2013 · Leave a Comment
There are many reasons why I selected RuneQuest to support my serious foray back into fantasy gaming after all these years (No, Vampire: The Dark Ages does not count). Chief among these reasons is the basic simplicity of the core mechanics and the enjoyable lethality of the combat system. At this point in time, I … Continue reading →
Casting Runes – An exploration of RuneQuest ~ Introduction
Posted by Runeslinger on December 31, 2012 · 17 Comments
This post is an introduction to the series and as such little to no content was harmed in its making. As I mentioned last week, my next series on the blog will focus on RuneQuest. For whatever reason, I have never played it and from what I can see now, I should have. While I … Continue reading →
Category BRP, Preparation and Preparedness, Runequest, Running Games, Stormbringer, The Blog · Tagged with Ars Magica, Basic Role-Playing, Call of Cthulhu, Dragon Warriors, dungeon crawl classics, Plot Ideas, Role-playing game, roleplaying, RPG, Runequest, running games, setting development, Stormbringer, Story Hooks
Taking a Stab at Seven Games
Posted by Runeslinger on December 24, 2012 · 2 Comments
The Black Campbell got me thinking about the Seven Games thread that has been running on G+ for a while. This was a topic I had been studiously ignoring as it doesn’t seem to easily break down into 7 discrete games for me. I tend to run more than one game at a time, and … Continue reading →
Category A Time of War, Aberrant, Aces & Eights, Adventure!, All for One: Regime Diabolique, Call of Cthulhu, Desolation, Hollow Earth Expedition, Palladium Fantasy, Running Games, Technoir, Trinity (Aeon), WoD ad nauseum · Tagged with Aces&Eights, Basic Role-Playing, Call of Cthulhu, Role-playing game, Ubiquity, World of Darkness
Is there a person in personality?
Posted by Runeslinger on December 18, 2012 · 6 Comments
I have recently become involved in a conversation about roleplaying which is not new, but this time is with people new to me, and more importantly is with people who do not seem to argue for the sake of arguing nor argue solely to win. The question at hand most recently has been the degree … Continue reading →
Category Casting the Shadows, Playing in Games, Running Games, The Blog · Tagged with character, emergent character, roleplaying, roleplaying games
Saturday Seed ~ 134 (Call of Cthulhu)
Posted by Runeslinger on December 15, 2012 · Leave a Comment
This week’s Saturday Seed is for Call of Cthulhu. It is a very cruel little seed appropriate for any era from the 1890’s forward. The Seed This seed deals with responsibility, the realization of guilt after the fact, and a personal challenge to overcome great vileness. Planting the seed The seed is appropriate for a … Continue reading →
Category Call of Cthulhu, Infectious Plots, Saturday Seeds, Ubiquity · Tagged with Call of Cthulhu, Plot Ideas, Role-playing game, roleplaying, Story Hooks






