Posted by Runeslinger on August 12, 2019 · Leave a Comment
Today’s prompt for #RPGaDay is friendship. I have found that the people I choose to game with repeatedly become my friends, and I find it interesting that this is not always true about our characters – especially in games about highly-skilled operators of some sort. Some games, however, almost demand it. My 2-minute video today … Continue reading →
Posted by Runeslinger on August 5, 2019 · Leave a Comment
Living in Korea, one thing that comes at a real premium is space. Even here in Daejeon where the ratio of open terrain to mountains favors the open terrain, the horizon has a hard and mountainous terminus in each cardinal direction. Having direct time living in the Canadian prairies and having grown up along the … Continue reading →
Posted by Runeslinger on January 5, 2019 · 1 Comment
The question I hope to raise is simply this: if we, as either producers of RPG products or the purchases of them, find a product which does not meet our standards, what will we do about it?
Category Actual Play, Casting the Shadows, Playing in Games, Reviews, Running Games, Technical Questions, The Blog, The Gamers, The Games · Tagged with RPG editing, RPG proofreading, RPG quality, RPG writing
Posted by Runeslinger on September 16, 2018 · Comments Off on Spirited Readings: Wraith 20
As the sadly delayed, and unsurprisingly cursed Kickstarter project for the 20th Anniversary Edition of Wraith: the Oblivion reaches its final stages, my mind has been caught up in both remembrance of the game as it was, and hope for the game to find a new existence here on the other side of the RPG … Continue reading →
Posted by Runeslinger on June 17, 2018 · 7 Comments
There is a sense among gamers that for games played with Lovecraft and Company’s Cthulhu Mythos as the setting, that insanity, death, or both are a foregone conclusion. Play to Find Out takes on a slightly limited meaning, ‘play to find out how you meet your end.’ I think it is helpful to take a … Continue reading →
Category Actual Play, BRP, BRP/RQ, Call of Cthulhu, Clockwork&Cthulhu, Cthulhu Dark, Dark Streets, Heroic Pulp, Horror, Leagues of Gothic Horror, Luther Arkwright, Mythras, OpenQuest, Preparation and Preparedness, Raiders of R'lyeh, Renaissance Deluxe, Runequest, The Blog, Tremulous · Tagged with Call of Cthulhu, Cthulhu Mythos, Games, Mythras, roleplaying games, themes