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 ~ 133 (Leagues of Adventure)
Posted by Runeslinger on December 8, 2012 · Leave a Comment
This week’s Saturday Seed is for Leagues of Adventure from Triple Ace Games. It is a very small seed which starts out in the city and heads off into the little known reaches of distant lands. The Seed This seed deals with the spirit of adventure, the quest for knowledge, the virtue of loyalty, and … Continue reading →
Category Hollow Earth Expedition, Infectious Plots, Leagues of Adventure, Saturday Seeds, Ubiquity · Tagged with Leagues of Adventure, Plot Ideas, Role-playing game, roleplaying, Story Hooks
Saturday Seed 127 (Leagues of Adventure)
Posted by Runeslinger on October 27, 2012 · Leave a Comment
The Seed This week’s Saturday Seed is the last of our four Halloween-themed one-shot scenarios which might take-off into longer flights of gaming. This seed, if you are feeling your oats, can in one evening jump between generations, but will not suffer for remaining in one. Intended for Leagues of Adventure and posted here in … Continue reading →
Category Hollow Earth Expedition, Leagues of Adventure, Saturday Seeds, Ubiquity · Tagged with Frankenstein, Halloween One-Shots, Hollow Earth Expedition, Leagues of Adventure, Plot Ideas, Story Hooks
Saturday Seed ~ 111 (Hollow Earth Expedition)
Posted by Runeslinger on July 7, 2012 · Leave a Comment
This week’s seed is for HEX, but can easily be repurposed for many types of ‘modern’ settings that include a strong journalistic tradition. The seed After attracting a certain amount of notice in private circles, making both friends and enemies in their own fields and in fields in which they have cause and opportunity to come … Continue reading →
Serial Setting 2 ~ Week 16
Posted by Runeslinger on June 23, 2012 · Leave a Comment
The Casting Shadows blog’s second Serial Setting appears in weekly installments and is scheduled for a 6-month run. This series is focused on providing basic details for heroic pulp adventures for the Ubiquity Roleplaying System as presented in Hollow Earth Expedition. These ideas, set in a fictionalized and mysticized version of the Korean peninsula in 1936, present a community … Continue reading →




