Saturday Seed ~ 194 (Aces & Eights)
Posted by Runeslinger on February 8, 2014 · Leave a Comment
This is a seed for Aces&Eights, the western RPG as broad and beautiful as the vistas of the Old West themselves. The seed This seed is all about having and not having, ego and insecurity, fair play and graft, and most of all…poker. Planting the seed This seed can be planted in any nowhere town … Continue reading →
Category Aces & Eights, Saturday Seeds · Tagged with Aces & Eights, Plot Ideas, roleplaying games, RPG, Story Hooks
Genre is Rule 0
Posted by Runeslinger on January 27, 2013 · 7 Comments
Now available in audio form with commentary from 2020 Casting Shadows Podcast I watched a video clip yesterday evening which asked “Why?” in connection to the disparity in numbers between those who will choose to respond to an ad looking for D&D or Pathfinder players as compared to the number who will respond to ads … Continue reading →
Category Aces & Eights, All for One: Regime Diabolique, Brass&Steel, Call of Cthulhu, Godlike, Hollow Earth Expedition, Leagues of Adventure, Running Games, Stormbringer, Technical Questions, Technoir, The Blog, Themes and Intentions · Tagged with Aces & Eights, dungeon crawl classics, Dungeons & Dragons, gaming, genre conventions, Role-playing game, roleplaying games, RPG, running games, World of Darkness, Wraith the Oblivion
Saturday Seed ~ 140 (Aces&Eights)
Posted by Runeslinger on January 26, 2013 · Leave a Comment
This week’s seed is a small one for problem solvers and community builders in Aces&Eights. It is suitable as a one-shot or limited number of sessions with established characters. My Saturday Seeds also reappear on Ancient Scroll on random Saturdays~ The seed The seed entails the characters stumbling across a scene of great tragedy and … Continue reading →
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Saturday Seed ~ 137 (Aces & Eights)
Posted by Runeslinger on January 5, 2013 · 2 Comments
This week’s seed is a grim idea to spark a manhunt in Aces&Eights. It is suitable as a motivator for one story in a campaign, or as an ongoing theme. The seed The seed entails offering the players the opportunity to involved their characters in a search for a prisoner who has escaped from justice … Continue reading →
Category Aces & Eights, Saturday Seeds · Tagged with Aces&Eights, Plot Ideas, roleplaying, Story Hooks
Taking a Stab at Seven Games
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
Casting Shadows 