Posted by Runeslinger on December 24, 2012 · 2 Comments
The Black Campbell got me thinking about the Seven Games thread that has been running on G+ for a while. This was a topic I had been studiously ignoring as it doesn’t seem to easily break down into 7 discrete games for me. I tend to run more than one game at a time, and … Continue reading →
Category A Time of War, Aberrant, Aces & Eights, Adventure!, All for One: Regime Diabolique, Call of Cthulhu, Desolation, Hollow Earth Expedition, Palladium Fantasy, Running Games, Technoir, Trinity (Aeon), WoD ad nauseum · Tagged with Aces&Eights, Basic Role-Playing, Call of Cthulhu, Role-playing game, Ubiquity, World of Darkness
Posted by Runeslinger on October 22, 2012 · 6 Comments
As readers of this blog already know, I like Play by e-Mail games and have found them much easier to run since the advent of Gmail. A few weeks ago, I transformed a game slated to be run as a PBeM into a game run via Google+ and my initial feeling is that I will … Continue reading →
Category A Time of War, Battletech, Battletech / Mechwarrior, Mechwarrior Live Game Reports, Preparation and Preparedness, Reports, Reviews, Running Games · Tagged with A Time of War, Battletech, Google+, live report, Mechwarrior, Play-by-mail game, playing in games, Role-playing game, running games
Posted by Runeslinger on September 29, 2012 · Leave a Comment
This week’s seed is for A Time of War in celebration of the release of the A Time of War Companion. The Casting Shadows blog offers Saturday Seeds and campaign starters every Saturday (go figure…). Seeds from the blog also appear on Ancient Scroll. The seed This seed could serve as the basis of a … Continue reading →
Posted by Runeslinger on September 21, 2012 · 6 Comments
It has been ages since I posted about my Mechwarrior campaign. There has been a lot to say, some of which ended up in Shadowscasts 6 and 7, but there has been a lack of time to do much more than that. To make a long story short, we put the campaign on Indefinite Hiatus. … Continue reading →
Category A Time of War, A Time of War Actual Play, Battletech, Battletech / Mechwarrior, Campaign Recaps, Live Game Report, Mechwarrior Live Game Reports, Preparation and Preparedness, The Blog, Themes and Intentions · Tagged with Battletech, campaign change, Games, gaming, Mechwarrior, Roleplay, Star League, Succession War
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
Casting Shadows 