Middle-aged tech for a middle-aged man
Posted by Runeslinger on August 11, 2011 · 4 Comments
This week I entered the Tablet Age, as my wife generously purchased one for me. What a difference this week has made! As anyone who knows me will attest, I am not a fan of the cult whose temple lies at 1 Infinite Loop, so this was a choice between Windows7, Android, and WebOs. I … Continue reading →
Category Playing in Games, Preparation and Preparedness, Running Games, Technical Questions, The Blog · Tagged with Android, Dice, playing in games, roleplaying, RPG, running games, Thoughts, Ubiquity
Invasion of Character
Posted by Runeslinger on August 8, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Yesterday, something clicked…I love that feeling. Yesterday was a session of our Desolation campaign called The Path Less Taken, and I have very much been enjoying being ‘just a player.’ I am playing a sorcerer from the Saikin Wastes, and the setting for this introductory story is a caravan whose members comprise a fair cross-section … Continue reading →
Category Casting the Shadows, Characters and Support Cast, Desolation, Playing in Games, The Blog, Ubiquity · Tagged with Character creation, roleplaying, Ubiquity
Mechwarrior: Running A Time of War, part 6
Posted by Runeslinger on July 19, 2011 · 1 Comment
As the PBeM reports for my Mechwarrior Campaign, Hair of the Dog, show – progress is ‘rapidly’ being made to get into the meat of the tale, leaving the preliminaries safely resolved behind us. In many aspects I think of this part of the campaign as Christmas Day, with New Years to follow, and all … Continue reading →
“Before-ing” the After: Desolation
Posted by Runeslinger on June 29, 2011 · Leave a Comment
On Sunday, our new group of gamers settled in to play the introductory session of our new Desolation campaign. While this is exciting, even more exciting is that I get to play. The campaign will be using a shared setting, and my part of that setting will not appear until later. Lucky me! Before The … Continue reading →
Category Casting the Shadows, Desolation, Live Game Report, The Blog, Ubiquity · Tagged with Desolation, Obsidian Portal, Palladium Fantasy, Thoughts, Ubiquity
Technoir Playtest
Posted by Runeslinger on June 20, 2011 · 8 Comments
Early on Sunday afternoon, in a board game café we expected to be deserted, but was not, we conducted our first playtest of the Technoir RPG Beta rules. Coordinated in part through meetup.com to expand my circle of gamers here in Seoul, we had four players willing to try a little cybered-noir on a sunny … Continue reading →
Category Live Game Report, Reports, Technoir, The Blog · Tagged with cyberpunk, roleplaying, Technoir






