Mechwarrior PBeM report: Cast of Characters 1
Posted by Runeslinger on December 16, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Despite the quick pace the players are keeping in their deadly dance in the stone hills below the Academy, the passage of time in the real world is no doubt making it seem like things have ground to a halt. Rest assured, they have not. This entry will serve as a bit of extended character … Continue reading →
Category A Time of War, Battletech / Mechwarrior, Casting the Shadows, Characters and Support Cast, The Blog · Tagged with Battletech, Mechwarrior, roleplaying
Battletech: Battle Royale 3025
Posted by Runeslinger on December 2, 2010 · 2 Comments
Today’s post owes the entirety of its content to the work of my old comrade in dice, BF Wolfe. My esteemed colleague, and fellow Battletech aficionado, has continued his probe into the mysteries of the sweet science of mechanized combat. The last time we discussed his theories, we looked at his genetic algorithm for evolving … Continue reading →
Category Battletech / Mechwarrior, Technical Questions, The Blog · Tagged with BattleMech, Battletech, Board Games, Mechwarrior, Role-playing game, Thoughts
Unusual Suspects
Posted by Runeslinger on November 21, 2010 · 1 Comment
Rick sold the Cafe and the real adventure began. Sometimes, a person just has to stay up late, turn out the lights, and wrap themselves in the flickering light show of accidental greatness. Rick (often): I stick my neck out for nobody. With stacks of games about me, my dog asleep at my side on … Continue reading →
The seeming absence of HR in RPGs
Posted by Runeslinger on November 19, 2010 · 8 Comments
A lot of stories rely on people being in the right place at the right time. While I like that structurally, and enjoy making use of it in various ways and to varying degrees in the games that I play, it really only works once in any given setting… unless you are playing Mage and … Continue reading →
Category Casting the Shadows, Characters and Support Cast, Preparation and Preparedness, Running Games, The Blog · Tagged with players, playing in games, role-playing, roleplaying, RPG, running games, Thoughts
Corruption: the other white meat
Posted by Runeslinger on November 4, 2010 · 2 Comments
Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whiles, like a puff’d and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, And recks not his own rede. -Hamlet Stirred, not shaken Temptation to the point of corruption is not something which I consider to be easy … Continue reading →







