Playing to Type: Genre Fidelity and Growth
Posted by Runeslinger on August 2, 2012 · 9 Comments
Genre conventions and assumptions can make or break a session, scenario, campaign or even a group. They are not alone in possessing this awesome power, but they do occupy a curious niche of game elements which people seem to understand, yet prove that they do not somewhere between ‘it’s probably too late to fix things’ … Continue reading →
Category Running Games, Technical Questions, The Blog · Tagged with Character Development, gaming, genre conventions, genre-fidelity, Role-playing game, running games, setting development, themes
Gaming on a Desert Island…
Posted by Runeslinger on July 30, 2012 · 6 Comments
The Black Campbell‘s post on which 10 game books he would like to be marooned with should he ever take a tour on the Minnow or start working for FedEx came across my screen this weekend and I have been thinking about it off and on since. I am honestly not sure I can list … Continue reading →
Category Running Games, Technical Questions · Tagged with A Time of War, Aces & Eights, Battletech, Call of Cthulhu, game books, Leagues of Adventure, Role-playing game, roleplaying system, running games, Ubiquity
Serial Setting 2 ~ Week 21
Posted by Runeslinger on July 27, 2012 · Leave a Comment
The Casting Shadows blog’s second Serial Setting appears in weekly installments and is scheduled for a 6-month run of which only 1 month remains. This series is focused on providing basic details for heroic pulp adventures for the Ubiquity Roleplaying System as presented in Hollow Earth Expedition and to a much lesser extent Leagues of Adventure. These ideas, set … Continue reading →
Assessing Group Performance
Posted by Runeslinger on July 26, 2012 · 9 Comments
Perception shapes reality, but sadly individual perception shapes only an individual’s reality to any great degree. I say sadly, not because I long for the chaos such a totally mutable world would bring with it, but because many of us remain trapped in glass rooms for 1 in the Hotel of the Real, thinking that our perception … Continue reading →
Category Preparation and Preparedness, Technical Questions, The Blog · Tagged with gaming, playing in games, Role-playing game, roleplaying, RPG, running games, signal loss
Serial Setting 2 ~ Week 20
Posted by Runeslinger on July 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment
The Casting Shadows blog’s second Serial Setting appears in weekly installments and is scheduled for a 6-month run of which only 1 month remains. This series is focused on providing basic details for heroic pulp adventures for the Ubiquity Roleplaying System as presented in Hollow Earth Expedition and to a much lesser extent Leagues of Adventure. These ideas, set … Continue reading →





