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 →
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 →
OSR or OGRe?
Posted by Runeslinger on July 20, 2012 · 4 Comments
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 →





