Serial Setting 2 ~ Week 2
Posted by Runeslinger on March 16, 2012 · Leave a Comment
The Casting Shadows blog’s second Serial Setting is set to run once a week over a six-month period, and provide details for heroic pulp adventures set across the peninsula, present a fictionalized community oppressed by faceless enemies and their own countrymen, and suggest routes, leads, and hooks for GMs to entice groups based elsewhere in … Continue reading →
Category Daring Tales, Hollow Earth Expedition, Serial Settings, Ubiquity · Tagged with Daring Tales, Hollow Earth Expedition, Plot Ideas, pulp adventures, setting development, Story Hooks, Ubiquity
Serial Setting 2 ~ Week 1
Posted by Runeslinger on March 9, 2012 · 1 Comment
Our second Serial Setting begins this week. NPCs presented during the course of the serial setting will conform to the Ubiquity rules and the setting itself will conform to the pulp stylings of Hollow Earth Expedition. Our location is a fictional town on the West coast of Korea in the year 1936. Revolutionary stirrings among a people nearing their 30th … Continue reading →
Category Daring Tales, Hollow Earth Expedition, Serial Settings, Ubiquity · Tagged with Hollow Earth Expedition, Plot Ideas, Role-playing game, Serial Settings, setting development, South Korea, Ubiquity
Serial Setting 2 ~ Introduction
Posted by Runeslinger on March 1, 2012 · 4 Comments
The Casting Shadows blog will be launching its second Serial Setting next week. After much debate, it has been decided to once again focus on Hollow Earth Expedition, but the location will be a semi-fictional town in Korea in 1936, conveniently filled with strange mysteries, patriots and revolutionaries, cruel oppressors, lost treasures, and doorways to … Continue reading →
Category Daring Tales, Hollow Earth Expedition, Serial Settings, Ubiquity · Tagged with Hollow Earth Expedition, Korea, Plot Ideas, roleplaying, RPG, Ubiquity
Shadowscast – episode 4
Posted by Runeslinger on February 17, 2012 · Leave a Comment
This episode touches on three topics. First, I discuss gaming from the point of view of one layer of immersion: genre fidelity. Second, we examine the possibility of really meshing tactical and roleplaying elements in a single game. Finally, I share some quick tips for running a campaign as a Play-By-e-Mail game. Specific games which get mentioned are All for One: … Continue reading →
Shadowscast – episode 3
Posted by Runeslinger on January 28, 2012 · 8 Comments
This episode touches on four topics. We continue our look at Seoul as a setting, discuss gaming in public, review the excellent service from Noble Knight Games, and take a look at our initial impressions of the Ubiquity Roleplaying System. Volume 1, Episode 3 Related articles Shadowscast – episode 1 from Casting Shadows (runeslinger.wordpress.com) Shadowscast … Continue reading →
Category All for One: Regime Diabolique, Desolation, Hollow Earth Expedition, Running Games, Shadowscast, The Blog, Ubiquity · Tagged with Android, CthulhuTech, Godlike, Role-playing game, Seoul, Shadowscast, Ubiquity, Unhallowed Metropolis





