Ubiquity in Use: Weak Characters?
Are starting characters weak or just misunderstood? To answer this question for myself, I have decided to build two characters for All for One, then show them in use in standard genre scenes Character One: Gerard DeMoutiers, King’s Musketeer Although as a swordsman I tend to shy away from building characters with that archetype for … Continue reading
All for One : Methods of Corruption and Coercion
“He who roams the road to ruination must first traverse the trestle of temptation” The Primrose Path That the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, and that the primrose path deludes us with its tantalizing pleasures while we march merrily on to damnation are two things well-known to any who seek to walk … Continue reading
Saturday Seed ~ 23 (Desolation)
This week’s Saturday Seed is for Desolation The seed This seed combines the thrill of discovery, the strangeness of the After, and an ethical choice. While I envisioned it for a post-apocalyptic setting, and have retooled it here for Desolation, it could be run in a wide variety of genres and time periods. The group, … Continue reading
Corruption: the other white meat
Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whiles, like a puff’d and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, And recks not his own rede. -Hamlet Stirred, not shaken Temptation to the point of corruption is not something which I consider to be easy … Continue reading
Casting Shadows 