OSR or OGRe?

Old Dog on the prowl As those with any familiarity with this blog will know I have been focused pretty heavily on running games with the Ubiquity roleplaying system for almost two years now. One interesting side effect of that which I noticed this week was that other systems are starting to look awfully slow … Continue reading

Walking in Gumshoes ~ Casting and Creating Characters

It turns out we were more than perilously close to starting our campaign of Mutant City Blues by Pelgrane Press last week, it began within moments of my posting this article.  I really wasn’t expecting it to have started before the end of that week, so that was a great surprise. In sensible fashion, we began with the assignment … Continue reading

Serial Setting 2 ~ Week 19

The Casting Shadows blog’s second Serial Setting appears in weekly installments and is scheduled for a 6-month run which is nearly over. 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 in a … Continue reading

The Light that Never Warms (All for One: Regime Diabolique) – Campaign Report 6

Campaign: The Light that Never Warms  Story Two: I Came for the Waters Session 2 Scales of the Dragon This is the sixth installment of reports for my current face-to-face campaign using Triple Ace Games’ fantastic All for One: Regime Diabolique ~ a game of supernatural intrigue and swashbuckling action in a dark reflection of 17th … Continue reading

Walking in Gumshoes ~ Setting and Set-up

According to the GM, we are perilously close to starting our campaign of Mutant City Blues by Pelgrane Press. The GM has been encouraging a collaborative approach for laying the foundations of the setting, and so I think it is best to start this second entry on playing Mutant City Blues (MCB) with that before the … Continue reading

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