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 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 9, 2012 · 2 Comments
It is October once again, and my often futile quest to find a decent carving pumpkin here in Korea is on. It is also a period wherein several of my favorite holidays coincide: Chuseok, the Korean Harvest Festival, Canadian Thanksgiving, and Halloween. This episode of Shadowscast, the eighth, presents two segments on Korea, one on … 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 September 16, 2012 · 5 Comments
The latest episode of Shadowscast lacks guest stars, open-ended questions, gloom, and pre-cursors to massive flooding. Sorry~ What it does have are three segments, and those segments focus on Korea as a game setting, restarting a campaign you have put on hiatus, and a short actual play clip of Leviathans. Sharp-eyed observers will note it … Continue reading →
Category A Time of War, Battletech / Mechwarrior, Leviathans, Reports, Shadowscast · Tagged with A Time of War, Aerial torpedo, Games, Leviathans, Roleplay, Shadowscast, tabletop gaming
Posted by Runeslinger on August 20, 2012 · 3 Comments
I honestly expected that my core box set for Leviathans would not arrive until we were well into September. What with cons, and all the other things going on, it didn’t really occur to me that I would get my set before GenCon. Technically *I* got it afterward, but it was actually delivered to my … Continue reading →