Day 1: #RPGaDay 2018 – “Love”
Week One: WHAT? Prompt: What do you love about RPGs? This question is simultaneously easy and hard to answer, which is I suppose, fitting given the subject of roleplaying games. The first thing that comes to mind upon seeing the prompt, of course, is that there are many, many things that I appreciate … Continue reading
August 1, 2018 #RPGaDay Prompts
About to launch for its fifth consecutive run, RPGaDay, the brain-child of David Chapman, is only a week away. How fast a year slips by when you are gaming and having fun, right? Let’s get the basics out of the way: What is #RPGaDay? #RPGaDay is a list of 31 questions intended to get gamers … Continue reading
Mythos Mythras: Tone and Tenor
There is a sense among gamers that for games played with Lovecraft and Company’s Cthulhu Mythos as the setting, that insanity, death, or both are a foregone conclusion. Play to Find Out takes on a slightly limited meaning, ‘play to find out how you meet your end.’ I think it is helpful to take a … Continue reading
Mythos Mythras: Methods of Madness
Mythras introduces rules for the mental effects of ‘unpleasantness’ and long-term abuse and vices in its Luther Arkwright: Roleplaying Across the Parallels expansion which also broadens the social and technological base of the game beyond the bronze and iron ages into the industrial age and far, far beyond. This makes it a solid match for … Continue reading
Mythos Mythras
Mythos Mythras, you say…? We are currently using Mythras + Luther Arkwright, with some renaming of player information, to run a Mythos campaign set at various points in the 19th and 20th centuries. One of the goals is to heighten the horror of Mythos activity and encounters by bringing human cult violence and insanity into … Continue reading
Casting Shadows 