Serial Settings 1: Ubiquity ~ Week 46

Posted by Runeslinger on October 10, 2011 · Leave a Comment 

The entry this week for Serial Setting 1 for Ubiquity details a secretive resident of the beautiful and deadly Windlet Islands. The Serial Settings series of posts is intended to provide usable setting material for busy GMs. Series 1 is for those looking to run Daring Tales of Adventure or Hollow Earth Expedition. 46) The Clockwork Man, West Tower, Greater … Continue reading →

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Saturday Seed ~ 72 (Brass & Steel)

Posted by Runeslinger on October 8, 2011 · Leave a Comment 

In terms of televised entertainment I am a season behind those of you on the side of the Earth I consider to be normal, so I am just now running across the proliferation of steampunk references being used to spice up otherwise mundane programming. In belated deference to the accomplishment of getting the eyes of … Continue reading →

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Serial Settings 1: Ubiquity ~ Week 45

Posted by Runeslinger on October 3, 2011 · Leave a Comment 

The entry this week for Serial Setting 1 for Ubiquity details a spectacular phenomenon on the beautiful and deadly Windlet Islands. The Serial Settings series of posts is intended to provide usable setting material for busy GMs. Series 1 is for those looking to run Daring Tales of Adventure or Hollow Earth Expedition. 45) Undiscovered Geyser, Gretel Islet, interior Much … Continue reading →

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Saturday Seed ~ 71 (Unhallowed Metropolis)

Posted by Runeslinger on October 1, 2011 · Leave a Comment 

This week’s seed is for Unhallowed Metropolis partly because I wanted to have a gas mask this week during some aromatic street repairs around my neighborhood, and partly because a more appropriate tagline for Seoul is hard to imagine. The seed presented here has been repurposed from a Beyond the Supernatural story I ran a … Continue reading →

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Cthulhu by Frostbite – pt.2

Posted by Runeslinger on September 29, 2011 · 4 Comments 

A complaint I have often heard from new CoC Keepers is how to persuade players to “go into the basement.” As others have said before me, you are setting yourself up for failure, or at the very least a predictable and flat encounter if your session is being constructed that way. The trick lies not … Continue reading →

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