#RPGaDAY2025 – My approach and Day 1: Patron
Posted by Runeslinger on August 1, 2025 · Leave a Comment
#RPGaDAY2025 begins! Today’s prompt is Patron and I will be taking the option of linking all 31 prompts into a continuous flow to make a campaign pitch for Leagues of Cthulhu~
Chaosium’s Basic Roleplaying
Posted by Runeslinger on July 27, 2025 · 2 Comments
…BRP hits a precise point where it makes a clear and resonant kind of sense. It is grounded in the experience of being human and the underpinning logic of the imaginative worlds we create. It surges with brutal magic and the even more brutal harm people can inflict upon each other – and receive in turn. It finds ways to make risk easy to run yet pleasantly agonizing to choose. It has a lot to say about who the characters we play are, yet has the room to listen to our ideas as well. It is incredibly responsive to the ongoing events of play… It has a boldness about how it limits characters to a human mold, yet expects better of them. Anyone can be a hero, the pages of BRP whisper, they just have to act…
Category BRP, BRP Mecha, BRP/RQ, Call of Cthulhu, Casting the Shadows, Clockwork&Chivalry, Clockwork&Cthulhu, Dark Streets, Luther Arkwright, Morrow Project, Mythras, Mythras, Pendragon, Product Overviews, Raiders of R'lyeh, Renaissance Deluxe, RuneQuest, RuneQuest, Stormbringer · Tagged with BRP, Chaosium, Games, gaming, roleplaying, roleplaying games, RPG, ttrpg
Call of Cthulhu Immersive Sandbox Campaign Recap and Reflection ~ 1
Posted by Runeslinger on April 13, 2025 · Leave a Comment
The campaign has grown from one investigation with a single investigator to five independent investigations (or branches) and nine investigators, so far…
Category Actual Play, Call of Cthulhu, Campaign Recaps, Casting the Shadows, Live Game Report, Playing in Games, Preparation and Preparedness, Running Games, The Blog, Themes and Intentions · Tagged with Call of Cthulhu, Call of Cthulhu campaign play, Chaosium, gaming, roleplaying, roleplaying games, RPG, RPGs, setting development, ttrpg
Blue Planet: Recontact – another return to Poseidon
Posted by Runeslinger on October 11, 2024 · 2 Comments
I have written before of the amazing Blue Planet RPG, and each time that I have, and a few times when I haven’t, I have also mentioned the Blue Planet Curse which seems to have been laid upon me by some travel-wary troublemaker. The curse has never daunted nor dissuaded me. I have been completely … Continue reading →
Category Blue Planet, Casting the Shadows, The Blog · Tagged with Blue Planet, roleplaying game
#RPGaDAY2024 Day 22: Notable NPC
Posted by Runeslinger on August 22, 2024 · Leave a Comment
Our standard prompt for #RPGaDAY2024’s Day 22 is another subject I am fond of discussing with the groups I am in: NPCs. Whether I am the GM and getting to step into the role of one, or a player asked to take on the role of one for a moment or longer, or a player … Continue reading →
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