Posted by Runeslinger on December 8, 2012 · Leave a Comment
This week’s Saturday Seed is for Leagues of Adventure from Triple Ace Games. It is a very small seed which starts out in the city and heads off into the little known reaches of distant lands. The Seed This seed deals with the spirit of adventure, the quest for knowledge, the virtue of loyalty, and … Continue reading →
Posted by Runeslinger on November 25, 2012 · 8 Comments
For a few weeks now I have been in the process of doing short clips (no, really!) on my YouTube channel which are intended to serve as an introduction to a style of play which I feel was more common in the past than it is now. Although badly or misleadingly named (and I apologize … Continue reading →
Category Casting the Shadows, Characters and Support Cast, Live Game Report, Preparation and Preparedness, Running Games, Shadowscast, The Blog, Themes and Intentions · Tagged with gaming, gaming theory, immersion, roleplaying, Simulation, Simulation in Roleplaying Games
Posted by Runeslinger on November 17, 2012 · Leave a Comment
This week’s Saturday Seed is for All for One: Regime Diabolique and could easily become the basis of a short series within a campaign that takes advantages of the societal, occult, and political elements of the setting. The Seed This small seed involves the growing proliferation of secret societies and the trade in connections and … Continue reading →
Posted by Runeslinger on November 7, 2012 · 2 Comments
This ninth episode of Shadowscast, presents two longer segments on Korea, and one segment on dealing with one of the pitfalls of winging events from behind the GM screen in a sandbox or “lazy-style” game . I had intended to include an update to an error in last episode’s Leviathans segment on the torpedo phase, … Continue reading →
Category Casting the Shadows, Playing in Games, Reports, Running Games, Shadowscast, The Blog · Tagged with Chuseok, gaming, Halloween, Korea, Role-playing game, roleplaying, RPG, setting development, Shadowscast, South Korea
Posted by Runeslinger on October 30, 2012 · 5 Comments
Not long ago, an excellent new channel on YouTube called EmergentPlay began posting short, punchy clips pertaining to RPG theory and practice. If you have not taken a look at this channel yet, I cannot recommend it highly enough. The poster is very well-spoken, well-prepared, and game-literate; and the clips are 2-5 minutes of thought-provocation. Last … Continue reading →
