Posted by Runeslinger on January 19, 2013 · Leave a Comment
This post continues the exploration and implementation of RuneQuest 6th Edition for the creation of a sword and sorcery campaign setting. Decades ago, when I was running fantasy stories as a matter of course, my worlds were planets circling stars and followed the laws of physics as I understood them. About the only thing that … Continue reading →
Category BRP, Characters and Support Cast, Preparation and Preparedness, Runequest, Running Games, The Blog, Themes and Intentions · Tagged with Campaign setting, fantasy settings, roleplaying, Runequest, sword and sorcery
Posted by Runeslinger on January 19, 2013 · Leave a Comment
This week’s seed is for Hollow Earth Expedition, and involves a rare moment when the characters are at home doing nothing. We all know how the universe hates that. The seed The seed involves giving the characters a choice about becoming aware of forces seeking to meddle in world affairs to their own benefit behind … Continue reading →
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 →
Category Preparation and Preparedness, Runequest, Running Games, The Blog · Tagged with fantasy gaming, gaming, Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game, Role-playing game, roleplaying, roleplaying system, RPG, Runequest, running games, setting development
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
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
Casting Shadows 